One of the best methods is questioning. Marcel Proust, the author of the famous monograph "In search of lost time" and a great personality, through his efforts of a writer; managed to leave behind an extensive work, appreciated by critics all over the world.
In his honor every one of us should take the Proust Questionnaire at least once in their lives although I would recommend it several times since the answers might change and that means we changed too...we have other wishes, passions or perspectives...Just try to discover them and understand them better.
I've tried to answer it as an example:
I've tried to answer it as an example:
1. What is your idea of happiness?
- Being old, sitting on a bench on top of a hill alongside the person you spent your life with and watching the sunset.
2. Where would you most like to live?
- If I had to pick I would say Kyoto - Japan, but as they say...home is where your heart is.
3. What is your favorite virtue?
- There are 2 of them and they're inseparable: justice and honesty.
4. What are your favorite qualities in a man?
- Honesty, respect and determination.
5. What are your favorite qualities in a woman?
- Dignity and commitment.
6. What do you most value in your friends?
- Acceptance and understanding.
7. What is your biggest weakness?
- Caring too much for the people around me and too less for myself...that makes me wake up and realize that although I care about a lot of people only few of them care about me.
8. What do you enjoy doing the most?
- Being myself while spending time around the people I love.
9. What is your most marked characteristics?
- Honesty, acceptance - I never judge people, altruism.
10. What is your idea of misery?
- Loneliness - not because I would feel alone, but because there wouldn't be no one there that I could look after.
11. If not yourself, who would you like to be?
- No one else.
12. What is your favorite color and flower?
- Blue and the rose.
13. What is your favorite bird?
- The dove.
14. Who are your favorite writers?
- Albert Camus, Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami, Eiji Yoshikawa, Paulo Coelho, Shakespeare...
15. Who are your favorite poets?
- Charles Baudelaire, Edgar Allan Poe, Paul Verlaine...
16. Who are your favorite artists?
- Claude Monet, Rembrandt, Auguste Rodin, Albrecht Dürer...
17. Who are your favorite composers?
- Franz Liszt, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Frédéric Chopin, Igor Stravinsky, Edvard Grieg, Johannes Brahms, Franz Schubert, Antonio Vivaldi...
18. Who are your favorite heroes and heroines in fiction?
- Orpheus and Eurydice, Dante and Beatrice.
19. Who are the heroes and heroines in your life?
- Those who give me and the world hope.
20. Who are your favorite heroes and heroines in history?
- Napoleon Bonaparte and Joan of Arc.
21. What is your favorite food and drink?
- Anything made with love, passion and consideration.
22. What are your favorite names?
- Elisabeth and Victor.
23. What do you most dislike?
- Lies and betrayal.
24. What historical figures do you most dislike?
- Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.
25. What event in history do you most admire?
- The process of constitution of every national state and each and every battle fought for justice, nationality, unity, rights, and self-determination.
26. What social movement do you most admire?
- Feminism.
27. What natural gift would you most like to posses?
- Nothing from what I don't have already.
28. How would you like to die?
- Doing what I like, or while sleeping.
29. What is your present state of mind?
- Determined to never lose hope and fight for what I want.
30. What is your biggest pet peeve?
- A great part of the population. Mostly liars, fake people, lazy people, ignorant people, those who don't even have the right to be called humans, shameless people, disrespectful people, egocentric people...
31. Which fault in others do you most easily tolerate?
- Lack of confidence.
32. Which fault in yourself do you most easily tolerate?
- None. I can't tolerate any of them.
33. What is your motto?
- If you can't reach it, you don't have the right to call it your dream.
This was the Proust Questionnaire. To all of you that accidentally find this page or just stop for 5 minutes to read this girl's ambiguities...isn't it worth a try? Do you know enough about yourself to be able to answer them all? Find out!
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