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“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold;
they change the world into words.” – William H. Gass
Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a famous France’s writer and scientist who got recognition from his contemporaries and was nominated a couple of times for different awards. He developed a questionnaire about one’s individuality. Marcel Proust believed that through answering to these questions a person can “bare” its own truthful temper and personality. I responded to Proust’s Questionnaire too, and here are my answers.
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness? My perfect happiness is to be surrounded by people with which I can go anywhere, either to rob a bank or carry the word of god. 2. What is your greatest fear? I cannot say that I have a great fear, just a small one as fear of spiders. I can overcome my fears because only when you out of your comfort zone, you would gain something. 3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I deplore not listening to my parents during adolescence. Hopefully, with age, I became wiser. 4. What is the trait you most deplore in others? I do not like envious and jealous people, and I try to cut off communication with them. 5. Which living person do you most admire? My person is my dad. He grew up in a small village where was not even a school, but he graduated from the Agricultural University with his master and has reached high career position in the forest industry. 6. What is your greatest extravagance? If I will believe my husband, I am not spendthrift. Of cause, I can buy one extra handbag or spend extra money for my hobby, but it is always a deliberate decision. 7. What is your current state of mind? I can say that my state of mind today is curious and open for everything new because of relocation firstly to Canada and now to the USA. 8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue? Exception people as they are without any judgment, homily, and desire to remake their personality. 9. On what occasion do you lie? I am lying in the situation for the best. It means for the benefits of someone loved. My parents far from me, and it are not mandatory for them to know everything about me and my family, so time to time I lie to them for not to worry them. 10. What do you most dislike about your appearance? I love myself the way it is. People perceived you as much as you love yourself. 11. Which living person do you most despise? I do not have such a person. If I do like someone, I simply stop commutation with this person, so with time he or she just vanished from my life. 12. What is the quality you most like in a man? Potential to hold his words. A man said it, and a man did it. 13. What is the quality you most like in a woman? Ability to shut her mouth in a particular situation and not spreading gossips. 14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse? As for me, I do not have parasite words. Sometimes I can use some swearing words, but it depends on a situation. Likely I can do it in my native language, so fewer people can understand what exactly I say. 15. What or who is the greatest love of your life? I love my family, parents, and I like things around me. But if something would happen on, I am able to overcome after some time spent in remorse. 16. When and where were you happiest? I am happy where I am right now. I never have regret about the past, as well I have never guest for the future. 17. Which talent would you most like to have? Like many women, I want to eat anything and do not gain weight. It is some kind witch power. 18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? I do not change anything in myself. I am the way I am. 19. What do you consider your greatest achievement? I think my greatest achievement at this point of life is returning to the school with a fundamental change in my future professional field. 20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? Looking at my Scottish Fold cat and her lifestyle, I want to be a beautiful purebred cat. 21. Where would you most like to live? I would leave anywhere, just my loved ones must be near. 22. What is your most treasured possession? I think it is an ability to overcome past and present troubles. Life is going on. 23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? We as human beings are able to defeat anyone and anything. Only one what we need is right people around with proper words to support. But the lowest depth of misery still exists, and it is, in my opinion, suicide. 24. What is your favorite occupation? I admire to seat in the corner of the sofa and cross-stitching. 25. What is your most marked characteristic? People are telling that I am an optimistic person, even too much, and plus a great sense of humor, sometimes a “black” one. 26. What do you most value in your friends? I love my friends for not asking questions. If I come to one of them with my problem, no one would ask, my friend would put on the table a bottle of wine and chatting about everything and nothing. And after a couple of hours, we will be laughing like schoolgirls. 27. Who are your favorite writers? It is hard to distinguish one favorite author. I like to read detectives by different famous modern and dated writers. My favorite books came from my childhood and school years, so they are mostly from Ukrainian and Russian writers. 28. Who is your hero of fiction? I do not have one specific hero, it is a more collective image with such attributes as honest, kindness, faith in people, courage, and willingness to help others. 29. Which historical figure do you most identify with? In the early 18th century, in royal Russia exist opposition called Decembrist. And some point, the government catch them and send to the Siberia, but not a whole family, only man. Wives of the Decembrist went after their husbands on their own wishes and spent entire life there. I identify myself with these wives because I am ready to follow my husband anywhere even if he would ask. 30. Who are your heroes in real life? No one is ideal. 31. What are your favorite names? As soon as names are people’s names but not after the car’s brand of strange movie’s names, I am ok with them. 32. What is it that you most dislike? I dislike a Sisyphean toil, endless repetition the same meaningless task. 33. What is your greatest regret? I do not have great regrets. Life is a complicated and gushing thing where everything on its time and place. 34. How would you like to die? I would like to die quiet, just fall asleep and do not wake up. I do not want to be a burden for my family. 35. What is your motto? Even if you have been eaten, you have two choices for an exit.
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