The Proust Questionnaire Revisited
My 2019 Answers
My 2019 Answers to Marcel Proust’s parlor game
I wondered how much my answers had changed since I last pondered these questions.
Here goes:
Q1: What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Perfect happiness doesn’t exist, not the “all day every day” happiness kind.
I could tell you of moments of happiness, like seeing a cloud in the shape of an elephant, or realizing you do like fresh mushrooms on a salad after all. Something happens and you remember a long lost friend and their irreverence. Moments when you share a laugh with a friend, especially an old friend, and it’s a joke no one else would understand.
The moments pass, and the happiness is that they come at all.
Q2: What is your greatest fear?
My greatest fear is making the same mistakes over and over again, and never realizing it. Never taking to heart the lessons.
Q3: What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Today, the trait I most deplore is my own tendency to deplore.
Q4: What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Same. Stop whining, and do something about it if you can.
