It’s 12:30am and I am nowhere near ready to go to bed. Surfing YouTube, I came across a video of Stephen Colbert doing something called The Proust Questionnaire from Vanity Fair. I found the questions very interesting so I thought I would do it myself. Here we go.
1.What is your idea of perfect happiness?
To be able to live in a world without worry
2.What is your greatest fear?
To be forgotten after I die
3.What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
My tendency to focus on what I don’t have versus what I do have
4.What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Dishonesty and arrogance
5.Which living person do you most admire?
My wife
6.What is your greatest extravagance?
Probably the money I have spent on traveling
7.What is your current state of mind?
Contentment
8.What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Obedience
9.On what occasion do you lie?
When I don’t want to hurt someone’s feelings
10.What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My weight
11.Which living person do you most despise?
Don’t despise anyone, but not a fan of politicians
12.What is the quality you most like in a man?
Being friendly, good sense of humour
13.What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Sense of humour
14.Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Ok. Nice.
15.What or who is the greatest love of your life?
16.When and where were you happiest?
Aside from where I am now, my times sitting in Bob’s Room with my friends
17.Which talent would you most like to have?
Be able to juggle
18.If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My lack of self-confidence
19.What do you consider your greatest achievement?
My kids
20.If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
Love to come back as a woman and see what that’s like
21.Where would you most like to live?
Australia
22.What is your most treasured possession?
All of the many photos I have taken over the years
23.What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
When you feel like life is suffocating you and there’s no way out
24.What is your favorite occupation?
Anything that keeps me busy and makes me think
25.What is your most marked characteristic?
My sense of humour
26.What do you most value in your friends?
Honesty, loyalty
27.Who are your favorite writers?
Don’t have any
28.Who is your hero of fiction?
Rick Hunter
29.Which historical figure do you most identify with?
None
30.Who are your heroes in real life?
My wife, kids, and family
31.What are your favorite names?
Nicole, Steve
32.What is it that you most dislike?
Arrogant people
33.What is your greatest regret?
I don’t believe in regrets. To say that I “regret” something is to say that I wish I could go back and change it. But if I did that, my life would not turn out as it has now and I love the life I have.
34.How would you like to die?
Piano dropping on me out of the sky (seriously)
35.What is your motto?
Spend your life living, not having.
