Another post idea–thanks Peter!
1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
I like to imagine living in a secluded bungalow by a beach with amazing surf–even now, if I close my eyes I can see the sunlight breaking through palm trees and hear the waves crashing. Of course, there’s a beautiful family attached to all of that.
2. What is your greatest fear?
Cats terrify me
3. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
It has to be a hybrid: Gabrielle Chanel, Edie Sedgwick, and Gandhi
4. Which living person do you most admire?
My best friend, Mattie B.
5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
I have no brain-mouth filter
6. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Dishonesty
7. What is your greatest extravagance?
I want to say something witty, but really its Rick Owens, Christian Louboutin, Gucci, and Yves Saint Laurent…
8. What is your favorite journey?
A new love affair–those days and nights when you’re getting to know each other and everything is so exciting and fresh–it’s a very beautiful thing, slowly opening up your heart to someone
9. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Patience
10. On what occasion do you lie?
If my little sister or best friend needed me to…
11. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
My legs
12. Which living person do you most despise?
Any person who hurts the people I care most about
13. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
“Rockstar”
14. What is your greatest regret?
I aim to live and die without regret, but I don’t think I’ll ever reconcile what happened between me and a former love…
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
My sister
16. When and where were you happiest?
When I’m with my friends…
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
I always say I’d be a rockstar if only I could sing…
18. What is your current state of mind?
Peaceful
19. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I’d like to be a bit more refined, I’m pretty rough around the edges
20. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
I’d like to swap it out for the Norman Rockwell edition please….
21. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
The life I’ve created for myself…
22. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
A thing…
23. What is your most treasured possession?
I have some lovely letters and notes from friends that I’ll never get rid of…
24. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Being too afraid to take risks and ending up so far from where you dreamed you’d be
25. Where would you like to live?
Hemingway’s Paris
26. What is your favorite occupation?
Rockstar
27. What is your most marked characteristic?
I’m rebellious…
28. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Loyalty
29. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Loyalty
30. What do you value in your friends?
Loyalty
31. Who are your favorite writers?
Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Murakami, and Kerouac
32. Who is your favorite hero of fiction?
Heathcliff (from Wuthering Heights…not the cat…)
33. Who are your heroes in real life?
My uncle
34. What are your favorite names?
Isaiah, Jude, Jonah, Noah, Jack, and Sophia…
35. What is it that you most dislike?
The sound the hand dryer makes in my office bathroom
36. How would you like to die?
Knowing that I had lived…
37. What is your motto?
True freedom comes when you realize that EVERYTHING is a choice…
