the smiling man

'freezing' by yue minjun. he makes me smile

the brief isnt in yet, so im subjecting myself to the proust questionnaire

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
when my soul is content. at the moment, i just need to be near the ocean with the people i love

2. What is your greatest extravagence?
submission of personal freedom due to many factors

3. What is your current state of mind?
calm and centered

4. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
the inability to commit

5. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
their inability to see the bigger picture

6. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
success

7. What is your favourite occupation?
being the constant traveller

8. What is your most marked characteristic?
being loud and the inability to commit

9. What do you most value in your friends?
their honesty and support and patience

10. When and where you the happiest?
recently - underwater with the sharks; in general memory - with my family/friends

11. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
my hooked nose and smoke stained teeth

12. Which living person do you most despise?
despise is too strong

13. On what occassion do you lie?
when i think it's useful

14. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
ralph because that is unconditional love

15. Which talent would you most like to have?
discipline and to sing :)

16. If you could change one thing about yourself, what it be?
to be able to commit to a plan

17. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
nothing, their dysfunctionality works pretty well with me

18. What is your most treasure possession?
photos and my phone

19. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
unexpected death/ goodbye-s / intolerable pain

20. Who are your favourite writers?
im liking khalil gibran now cos he makes the most sense to me at this period in time

21. Who is your favourite hero of fiction?
sleeping beauty cos she made him wait

22. Who are your heroes in real life?
rosebud

23. What are your favourite names?
mine is pretty dope

24. What is it that you most dislike?
unjust cruelty to any being

25. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
the ability to be happy on my own

26. If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?
probably someone from those places we laugh at, just because god has a funny sense of humour

27. If you could choose what to come back as, what it be?
a shark or a tiger

28. Where would you like to live?
tuscany and french polynesia. hands down

29. How would you like to die?
without any effort, being loved

30. What is your greatest regret?
any regret i had before i realised that regret is the most useless feeling

31. What is your motto?
live your life as you see fit, without offending anyone

i tag shorty, small eyes and dayve to take up the challenge

xL