Hello, and welcome to my first blog! This is where I will be posting blogs in relation to my English Composition I course at Delaware County Community College. For our first blog assignment, we were tasked with taking and answering the Proust Questionnaire. This questionnaire was made by Marcel Proust. Marcel Proust was a French writer and the whole idea behind this questionnaire was to reveal to yourself your true personality. I hope you enjoy! __1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness? My perfect idea of happiness would be a whole life. A complete loving family that I get to come home to every day after work and get to spend every night with. A job I truly enjoy going into every day. A comfortable home in the country with lots of land and animals. That is my idea of perfect happiness. __2.__What is your greatest fear? My greatest fear would be losing the people who I love the most and who are closest to me. I’ve lost too many as is and I’m terrified of losing more. __3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself? The trait I most deplore in myself would be how reserved I am. It makes it difficult for me to meet new people because I don’t really enjoy it. I like to keep to myself, generally the less someone knows about me the better. __4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others? The trait I most deplore in others is when people are full of themselves. I cannot stand when people think they are the best thing that has ever been created. It annoys the shit out of me. __5.__Which living person do you most admire? The person I most admire is currently is James Mattis. He is a retired General in the Marine Corps and former Secretary of Defense. There are multiple reasons why I admire him from his war fighting tactics and abilities to the way he deals with any situation and how he deals with them so calmly. __6.__What is your greatest extravagance? I cannot stop buying stuff for my guns and or boat. Both are equal in that sense. I spend whatever I can on both, and I have a lot of money invested in them. __7.__What is your current state of mind? In one word, stressed. Theres a lot going on in the world and in my life and while I’m in a good state of mind overall, I’m very stressed. __8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue? I think it would be being a kind person to others. People are praised for doing kind acts like helping someone across the street. It's not something that should be praised, it's something that should be done automatically. Everyone should be kind to others, and the fact that it's praised when it happens goes to show how rare it is. __9.__On what occasion do you lie? I rarely lie, I don’t like lying. There are very few situations in which I would lie. The only lies I would tell would be small white lies, and even then, I would only tell them in a situation that I felt absolutely necessary to. __10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance? My acne, its not something you can always see, but I have it bad. I get bad breakouts on my chest and back and I hate it. __11.__Which living person do you most despise? That is a difficult question. It is difficult for me to decide. So instead of naming one person, I’m going to name a group or type of person. It would be someone who hurts others or manipulates others for their own personal gain. Whether it’s a regular every day person, or someone like Bashar-Al Assad, in my eyes, they are a waste of oxygen. __12.__What is the quality you most like in a man? Being able to use their hands. You’re a man, you should be able to fix shit. There are too many men who act like they are tuff and the shit, but cant even change a tire. __13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman? Being understanding. If you can sit down and have a constructive conversation with me, even if you don’t agree with me, remain calm and understand my viewpoint then that is perfect. __14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse? Curse words. I think that my most overused phrase would be “Are you fucking kidding me”. That comes out damn near every other sentence. __15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life? My fiancé Rose. I’ve never loved someone the way I love her. __16.__When and where were you happiest? So far, the day she said yes. Theres plenty more moments to come. __17.__Which talent would you most like to have? Banjo. I would absolutely love to play the banjo. I love the instrument and I love how it sounds. __18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be? My size, and what I mean by that is my weight and height. I aspire to be 180 pounds of pure muscle and would love to be somewhere around 6foot 2 inches. While I can get to 180 pounds of muscle, which I’m working on, the 6’2” is not gonna happen. __19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement? I think my greatest achievement was becoming a Marine and everything I did while I was on active duty. It’s something I’m very proud of and will take that pride with me to the grave. __20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be? I would most definitely come back as a dog. Dogs with a loving family have the life and just get to chill and do whatever. __21.__Where would you most like to live? Out in the countryside of the good old USA. Probably somewhere either with a farm or just out somewhere with a lot of land, preferably out midwest. __22.__What is your most treasured possession? My EGA. You receive your first EGA (Eagle Globe and Anchor) right after the crucible in Marine Corps boot camp. If you know anything about the Marine Corps boot camp, then you know why thats my most treasured possession. __23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery? Losing everything, your job, family, home, money, just everything. Once you lose it all and theres nowhere left to go down to then I believe that is the lowest depth. __24.__What is your favorite occupation? My favorite occupation would be the equivalent to what I did in the military. Getting to blow shit up. Unfortunately there is not much of a job field for that int he civilian world. Hence why I am going for my second favorite, which would be the medical field. __25.__What is your most marked characteristic? My most marked characteristic would be my nose, I think thats the very first thing people notice when they look at me. __26.__What do you most value in your friends? Honesty, if you aren’t honest with me and bullshit with me then there’s no place for you in my life. __27.__Who are your favorite writers? I love Stephen King. I love his books and that entire genre. I don’t read a terrible amount, but when I do its usually something by him. __28.__Who is your hero of fiction? ????? __29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with? Douglas MacArthur I would say. Just the way he upheld himself and the way he acted in general. He didn’t always go the way people wanted him to and didn’t follow what everyone else did. He did what he wanted and was damn good at it. __30.__Who are your heroes in real life? My dad for one, he is probably the biggest hero in my eyes. Just everything he does for our family and for everyone in general. I aspire to be like him one day. __31.__What are your favorite names? My favorite boy name would be Mason, and favorite girl name would be Adalynn. __32.__What is it that you most dislike? When people chew with their mouths open. I think that is the thing that brings the most hatred into my life. Chew with your god dammed mouth closed. __34.__How would you like to die? I would like to die from old age, in my sleep. Painlessly and quietly. __35.__What is your motto? Focus. Because focus creates targets, and targets create direction, and direction feeds progress, and progress is everything.
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