Welcome to my first English Composition assignment “The Proust Questionnaire”. This questionnaire was made by Marcel Proust (1871-1922). Marcel Proust was a French writer which used to slept during the day and wrote through the night. He always knew that he wanted to be a writer. He designed these thirty-five questions to find about people personality I hope you enjoy reading my answers. The Proust Questionnaire.
_1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness? Perfect happiness for me it’s when you love yourself and you are proud of you, also having a family, being healthy, having a husband or wife that loves and appreciate you so much, having your mom alive and ask her the best advice for anything, having a house to live, a home to spend your free time, having food every day, having a bed with the best blanket, having a shower with your favorite shampoo and soap, having your favorites clothes and shoes to wear, having 2 or 3 real friends, having Wi-Fi when you need and the most important thing having faith in God that he will be in charge of everything for you. __2.__What is your greatest fear? I think I have two greatest fear, one of them is receiving a call from Panama with bad news about my family. And the second one is sleeping in a place at night by myself. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? I trust people so much, they disappointed me and then I hated myself because I never have seen that in that person or why they did not appreciate my time and friendship. __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? The most I deplore in others is the way how people are so materialistic and fake. How they prefer someone’s life instead of getting their own goals and work hard to get it. __5.__Which living person do you most admire? The person I admire the most in my life is my adorable mom. She did not have the life she wanted but she was always a hard worker to get me and my sister the best for us, she shows me God and the way he acts in our lives. She gave us the best childhood. She though us to be a good human, to be able to adapt to anything life brings to us. I could write a book about her love and personality. Her name is Vilma E. Pinto P. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? My greatest extravagance I could say is swimming in the ocean with clear water and white sand if its by myself. If it’s with more people, the color of the water does not matter. __7.__What is your current state of mind? My current state of mind is I don’t know how many people will read this questionnaire. __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? The most overrated virtue its to be patience and be able to control your emotions. __9.__On what occasion do you lie? I don’t like to lie because then later I forgot what I said and I cannot put it together. But of course, like everybody sometimes I must. I guess when a friend is a drama queen and I don’t want to do what they want. __10. __What do you most dislike about your appearance? When I don’t have my nails done. Or when I get a pinball on my face. __11. __Which living person do you most despise? A person who complains about their lives. __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? The most I admire in a man is his responsibility for work, his care for his family, how he speaks about his wife and mom and the most important his loyalty. __13. __What is the quality you most like in a woman? The quality I like in a woman is the same I like about me. Be independent. __14. __Which words or phrases do you most overuse? This is a hard one. I have it in both languages and it goes by the place I am. At work I guess it’s “have a nice day”. At home with my family and friends I guess is “OMG”, “like” and “I don’t know”. __15. __What or who is the greatest love of your life? me, me and me. I don’t feel like answering this question because I love so many people in my life. __16. __When and where were you happiest? I have been happy so many times in my life. I could mention some of them, for example when I got engaged, when I graduated from college. When I got my job as a Flight attendant, When I jumped out of a plane, my first time in New York and Rio do Janeiro, when I take off and landed in the flight deck, first time I see snowing, first time doing snowboarding, any moment where I laughed so much with someone. __17. __Which talent would you most like to have? I would love to be the best with numbers and equations. __18. __If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? stop being worry about what others think or say about me after I say an honest answer that could make them feel bad. __19. __What do you consider your greatest achievement? My greatest achievement its being an immigrant and be able to be strong with all it includes. It is easy to take a carry-on, get on a plane and go for an adventure but I never imagine how hard this could be away from my family. At some point you realize you are not belonging either in the country you decided to live and your own one. And the other question that comes to your mind every day its “what if”. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I would like to come back as a Lion. __21.__Where would you most like to live? I like here in Philadelphia because of the weather is pretty good compare to places that I had lived before. But if I turn millionaire, I think I would like to live half of the year on a private beach somewhere in the Caribbean and the other half here. __22.__What is your most treasured possession? My most treasured possession is my family. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Sleeping over on January 2010 at Washington DC airport because I missed my flight. They called my name in a different pronunciation. I was the only one who stayed in that area without heater in the middle of the winter. I had to go in the bathroom and stand under the hand dryer to get myself warm. My Wi-Fi hour ended. I was so sleepy but at the same time scared, I don’t know how I found a spa station and I cross over the little gate and rest in the massage bed. All I wanted it’s to be 5:00 am so they open that area again and I can get my flight to Philadelphia. __24.__What is your favorite occupation? My favorite occupation was my first job as a flight attendant. But I never realized how cool it was not being a office every day with the same people all the time. __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? According to 80% of people I have known in my life I am weird and crazy. I like it. I call it being a unique cup cake with a touch of crazy sugar. I guess my most marked characteristic its not liking chocolate. __26.__What do you most value in your friends? I like happy, loyal and relax friends. A person that loves me with all my defects. A person that ask me How are you? A person that understand my busy life and appreciate when we are together. __27.__Who are your favorite writers? I do not have a favorite writers. I read depending of the situation I am going through. For example, when I was having a hard time to understand what’s to work in a office I read a book of John C. Maxwell about leadership and I loved it and it helped so much. __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? I have a lot of fiction heroes. One of the is Dwayne Johnson, I like his voice and smile. Before his death it was Paul Walker, I liked everything about him. __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? I have no idea. I never think of one that I could be. __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? People who are dealing with terminal diseases. Or a person with a family member going through this. __31.__What are your favorite names? my favorite names are Lulu and John. __32.__What is it that you most dislike? The most I dislike is the smell of oatmeal. __33.__What is your greatest regret? My greatest regret is not buying a house before I left Panama. __34.__How would you like to die? I would like to die either in surgery when I have anesthesia on or in my bed when I am sleeping, anywhere where I do not suffer or feel anything. __35.__What is your motto? My motto is myself. I always want to be better than yesterday. Every day I have a different goal, idea or occupation. Which is bad sometimes. Thank you for reading my answers!
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