An insight into my mind...

Hannah Rose, Capture The Castle 's blogger, wrote yesterday about Proust's questionnaire and I decided I'd give it a go, since I had nothing better to do (except copious amounts of Biology... oops) and I love doing that sort of thing... Or so I thought. I'm absolutely terrible when it comes to expressing my own mind into short questionnaire answers, plus I found that I have no particular real life heroes, which seems somehow tragic. I have plenty of people I admire, but no one really that I think 'they inspire me to be great'. I'm rather disappointed in my lack of ingenuity, and my answers turned out really... uptight and unsure and that's reflected in the standard english I inevitably used.

Without further adue, here are my answers:

• Your most marked characteristic? Good humour

• The quality you most like in a man? Sensitivity, not afraid to express his emotions, or at least not afraid to admit them to himself.

• The quality you most like in a woman? Effortlessness, or a delicateness and elegance that is refined and yet natural.

• What do you most value in your friends? Being able to be myself in their presence and thus being able to trust them fully

• What is your principle defect? Paranoia and social anxiety

• What is your favourite occupation? Writing and photography

• What is your dream of happiness? To want for nothing.

• What to your mind would be the greatest of misfortunes? To lose the people I care about the most.

• What would you like to be? A doctor.

• In what country would you like to live? New York!

• What is your favourite color? I don’t know… pastel colours, and dark colours, like French navy and pale blues and greens…

• What is your favourite flower? Giant daisies? Possibly cornflowers. I don’t know.

• What is your favourite bird? Peregrine falcon

• Who are your favourite prose writers? Jane Austen, J. R. R. Tolkien, Philip Pullman, Thomas Harris, C. S. Lewis

• Who are your favourite poets? Keats, Shakespeare, Simon Armitage,

• Who is your favourite hero of fiction? Samwise Gamgee

• Who are your favourite heroines of fiction? Emma Woodhouse

• Who are your favourite composers? Dario Marianelli

• Who are your favourite painters? Leonardo Da Vinci

• Who are your heroes in real life? None really spring to mind :\ The closest thing to a hero I have is J. R. R. Tolkien, he’s influenced my writing in many ways…

• Who are your favourite heroines of history? Elizabeth I ? What a woman.

• What are your favourite names? Darcy, Eleven, Rory, Riley, Heath, Yumi, Greyer, Colt, Felix

• What is it you most dislike? Ignorance

• What historical figures do you most despise? I don’t think I really have any passionate emotions for any historical figures…
• What event in military history do you most admire? The Spanish Armada? I can’t say any current affairs particularly fill me with pride over the actions of our country.
• What reform do you most admire? Legalisation of Gay Marriage

• What natural gift would you most like to possess? Fast metabolism ;)
• How would you like to die? Being a murder victim would be dramatic and I would inevitably die young, so not having to grow old and see my senses diminish over time … but it would be painful for my family…
• What is your present state of mind? Longing, but fairly content as things go… rather mixed emotions I suppose.
• To what faults do you feel most indulgent? I fall victim to my own lack of self esteem all the time..

• What is your motto? Take everyday as it comes.
  

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