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Do you believe in luck?
No, but I believe in Divine Influence. Does that count?
Who's the most beautiful person you know?
A mother, holding her child.
If you could change one thing about your life right now, what would it be?
I would be more confident. Especially when it comes to business interactions. No matter how cool and collected I seem on the outside, there's always this part of me that is worrying I've said the wrong thing, that my hands are in the wrong place, etc, etc, and I'm always just a little bit resentful that I'm in a situation where I have such a well-defined and poorly conceived definition of success. I worry that it shows through.
What would you do if you were a hot Indian female for a day?
Nothing that I can print in a family friendly forum, that's for sure. ;)
What is your favourite curse word?
"Krishna on a clamshell!" Although, I don't actually say it very much. I do frequently exclaim that I hate things "with the fiery [adjective] of a thousand burning suns."
It has recently been pointed out to me that I tend to exclaim "Bastards!" a lot, which is probably the closest I have to an actual curse word which is my "favorite."
I swear with a lot of other swear words, but they're not my "favorite." More like, they're just there out of habit.
If you could only accomplish one more thing in life, what would it be and why?
Can I cheat and say, "Read every unread book I own," or does that count as multiple things?
It's a strange question. Most of my goals are about achieving states of being, about getting to a milestone and seeing what lays beyond it. If I could "only" accomplish one more thing in my life, then that's asking about creating some kind of impact on the world, and walking away. Where do I go? Why can't I accomplish more?
I could get very cheesy and public-service-oriented and say something like, "I'd make everyone in the world take a breath in the same moment and calm the f*#$ down, and for just that one breath, let them understand everyone else in the world." But that's not really achievable.
I could get very self-centered and narcissistic and career-driven, and talk about wanting to achieve success in my career, and say something like, "Exhibit my work at MOMA," Except that my goals and desires have very little to do with that sort of public recognition at the moment.
Or I could get romantic and say that I'd like to finally feel safe and comfortable in a relationship, felt like it wasn't always on the edge of slipping out of my control, always one word away from ending. I could be really bold and add, "with a woman that my mother eventually learns to approve of."
Spiritual? I'd like to learn to meditate again. Of course, if that's the last thing I ever accomplish, it doesn't actually do much for me. Then again, meditation is all about being content in purposelessness.
Still, out of all those options, I think it's the last, the spiritual aspect of myself that I would like to be the last accomplishment of my life. It feels....somehow more worthy than anything else I might say.
What's the kindest thing someone has ever done for you?
My senior year in high school, JD walked up to me during lunch period a few weeks after I'd done her a fairly big favor during her first week in our school (she'd just moved there). She told me she'd asked around about me, and that she hadn't heard one nice thing about me, that people had said all kinds of mean things about me, and she wanted to give me a chance to tell my own story.
She joined me for lunch that day, and every other day for the rest of the school year. We became friends, and spent many evenings together exploring Chicago and the suburbs.
Years later, I ran into my high school guidance counselor, and he confided in me that Jennifer had actually revised her entire class schedule so that she could have the same lunch period as me.
She heard other people's view of me, and rearranged her entire life to give me the chance to earn her friendship. It was nearly 20 years ago, and many people have done many nice things for me since then, but to this day, nothing compares to that single act of kindness to a relative stranger.
Do you believe in luck?
No, but I believe in Divine Influence. Does that count?
Who's the most beautiful person you know?
A mother, holding her child.
If you could change one thing about your life right now, what would it be?
I would be more confident. Especially when it comes to business interactions. No matter how cool and collected I seem on the outside, there's always this part of me that is worrying I've said the wrong thing, that my hands are in the wrong place, etc, etc, and I'm always just a little bit resentful that I'm in a situation where I have such a well-defined and poorly conceived definition of success. I worry that it shows through.
What would you do if you were a hot Indian female for a day?
Nothing that I can print in a family friendly forum, that's for sure. ;)
What is your favourite curse word?
"Krishna on a clamshell!" Although, I don't actually say it very much. I do frequently exclaim that I hate things "with the fiery [adjective] of a thousand burning suns."
It has recently been pointed out to me that I tend to exclaim "Bastards!" a lot, which is probably the closest I have to an actual curse word which is my "favorite."
I swear with a lot of other swear words, but they're not my "favorite." More like, they're just there out of habit.
If you could only accomplish one more thing in life, what would it be and why?
Can I cheat and say, "Read every unread book I own," or does that count as multiple things?
It's a strange question. Most of my goals are about achieving states of being, about getting to a milestone and seeing what lays beyond it. If I could "only" accomplish one more thing in my life, then that's asking about creating some kind of impact on the world, and walking away. Where do I go? Why can't I accomplish more?
I could get very cheesy and public-service-oriented and say something like, "I'd make everyone in the world take a breath in the same moment and calm the f*#$ down, and for just that one breath, let them understand everyone else in the world." But that's not really achievable.
I could get very self-centered and narcissistic and career-driven, and talk about wanting to achieve success in my career, and say something like, "Exhibit my work at MOMA," Except that my goals and desires have very little to do with that sort of public recognition at the moment.
Or I could get romantic and say that I'd like to finally feel safe and comfortable in a relationship, felt like it wasn't always on the edge of slipping out of my control, always one word away from ending. I could be really bold and add, "with a woman that my mother eventually learns to approve of."
Spiritual? I'd like to learn to meditate again. Of course, if that's the last thing I ever accomplish, it doesn't actually do much for me. Then again, meditation is all about being content in purposelessness.
Still, out of all those options, I think it's the last, the spiritual aspect of myself that I would like to be the last accomplishment of my life. It feels....somehow more worthy than anything else I might say.
What's the kindest thing someone has ever done for you?
My senior year in high school, JD walked up to me during lunch period a few weeks after I'd done her a fairly big favor during her first week in our school (she'd just moved there). She told me she'd asked around about me, and that she hadn't heard one nice thing about me, that people had said all kinds of mean things about me, and she wanted to give me a chance to tell my own story.
She joined me for lunch that day, and every other day for the rest of the school year. We became friends, and spent many evenings together exploring Chicago and the suburbs.
Years later, I ran into my high school guidance counselor, and he confided in me that Jennifer had actually revised her entire class schedule so that she could have the same lunch period as me.
She heard other people's view of me, and rearranged her entire life to give me the chance to earn her friendship. It was nearly 20 years ago, and many people have done many nice things for me since then, but to this day, nothing compares to that single act of kindness to a relative stranger.
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Date: 8 Nov 2010 01:29 (UTC)I like that you enjoy it when I retell stories.