The Proust Questionnaire

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Living permanently in Amritapuri.
2. What is your greatest fear?
Never reaching the goal of living and dying at Amritapuri.
3. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Lack of drive/determination.
4. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Arrogance.
5. Which living person do you most admire?
Amma.
6. What is your greatest extravagance?
I can't answer this as everything I own or buy or will buy is completely and totally unnecessary. I guess I
7. What is your current state of mind?
Unsettled, wandering, incomplete.
8. What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Tact
9. On what occasion do you lie?
If someone asks me if I like something about their appearance and I don't
10. What do you most dislike about your appearance?
My weight
11. Which living person do you most despise?
Ex brother-in-law (if I have to name someone)
12. What is the quality you most like in a man?
Creative talent
13. What is the quality you most like in a woman?
knowing to wash the dishes and iron my clothes without having to be told (kidding). Intelligence.
14. Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
f*ck & g*dd*mn
15. What or who is the greatest love of your life?
Amma, Bailey, & Puck (pups)
16. When and where were you happiest?
When I'm at the ashram.
17. Which talent would you most like to have?
Being able to sing.. like *sing* sing.
18. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
My lack of drive/motivation
19. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
I don't have one.
20. If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
A person who could *sing* sing.
21. Where would you most like to live?
Amritapuri
22. What is your most treasured possession?
My guitar
23. What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
knowing what needs to be done but being unwilling/unable to do it
24. What is your favorite occupation?
stripper? I don't know. Like job? or occupation of time? Creating things.
25. What is your most marked characteristic?
Creativity
26. What do you most value in your friends?
Acceptance
27. Who are your favorite writers?
Rohinton Mistry, Anne Rice
28. Who is your hero of fiction?
Hanuman
29. Which historical figure do you most identify with?
Nina Simone
30. Who are your heroes in real life?
Amma
31. What are your favorite names?
Ones white people can't pronounce
32. What is it that you most dislike?
Stupidity
33. What is your greatest regret?
Not finishing college
34. How would you like to die?
In my sleep at the ashram
35. What is your motto?
I don't have one...