Timethief: An Interview with Myself
Dragos Roua blogged saying:
Now, here’s the deal. If you blog, feel free to copy and paste this article on your blog (with a link back to the original, of course) and answer each question at a time. Feel free to skip the ones you don’t like or don’t want to answer. But do keep the link back so I can discover you. I told you, you’re important.
33 Questions For An Interview With Yourself
1. What Do You Do For A Living?
2. Who Do You Love?
3. Do You Have Enough Money?
4. Are You Healthy?
5. Do You Think You Are a Good Person?
6. How Old Are You?
7. Who’s Your Best Friend?
8. What’s Your Childhood Dream?
9. How Often Do You Laugh?
10. What Makes You Smile?
List at least 10 items.
11. Who’s Your Most Dangerous Enemy?
12. Where Do You Live?
13. Do You Think You’re Strong?
14. What Was The Most Important Thing You’ve Done So Far?
15. What Was The Most Stupid Thing You’ve Done So Far?
16. Do You Love Yourself?
17. What Do You Fear The Most?
18. What Is Your Favorite Word?
19. When Was The Last Time You Cried?
20. What Is The Best Thing That Could Happen To You Right Now?
21. What Is The Worst Thing That Could Happen To You Right Now?
22. Picture Yourself In 5 Years From Now
23. Do You Regret Anything?
24. What’s The First Thing You Do In The Morning?
25. What Are You Thinking Just Before Going To Bed?
26. What Was The Highest Point You’ve Ever Been To?
27. If There’s One Thing In Your Life You Want To Change Right Now, What Is It?
28. What Are You Proud Of?
29. Sum Up Your Life In One Sentence
30. Name The Thing That Annoys You The Most
31. What Is Your No 1 Question To God?
32. Do You Have Secrets?
33. What Makes You Laugh?
34. Are You Happy?
Here are my answers.
1. I am a “Jill of many trades”. I am an artist, a sumei painter, who works in her husband’s business. I am also a paralegal and a librarian, who does contracted research and writing work. In addition I moderate two private online forums.
2. I love many people and humanity in general. I love nature, wildlife and domestic animals. I love living my life the way I want to live it, which is on my own terms.
3. I am not at all well off but I do have enough income to live a very simple and modest lifestyle and to donate to charities too.
4. I have long term chronic health conditions that I have learned to cope with.
5. I know I am a good person.
6. I am a mature woman who has passed age 50, but as have been stalked I no longer share information online that can lead to identity theft.
7. Without doubt, my husband is my best friend.
8. I don’t recall one.
9. I laugh frequently every day.
10. Many things make me smile and some of them are revealed in this blog – happy hunting!
11. I don’t believe I have any enemies.
12. I live in Canada.
13. I know I am emotionally, intellectually, and psychologically strong. I am also aware that I am flexible and resilient, and those two qualities are a great source of personal strength.
14. The most important thing I have done in my life is becoming conscious, replacing negative core beliefs left over from childhood with healthy ones, and learning how to love myself.
15. The most stupid thing I did before I became conscious was failing to recognize the following:
- Ideas, theories and beliefs are not necessarily truths.
- A belief is not an idea held by the mind; it is an idea that holds the mind.
- We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are.
16. Yes, I do love myself.
17. I have the kind of fear that protects me from danger. I do not have any phobias.
18. My favorite word is “yes”.
19. I cried this summer when my two little dogs died. I cry frequently and without any embarrassment for choosing to do so.
20. I don’t know. Until something happens I have no way of assigning a label to it like “the best” or “the worst”.
21. See answer in 20.
22. I picture myself 5 years from now living much the same lifestyle as I do now and being a more compassionate person than I am today.
23. I have two major regrets and I do not wish to share what they are online.
24. I smile, yawn and stretch.
25. Just before I go to sleep I give thanks.
26. The highest point I have ever been to was looking death in the face and walking away alive.
27. I can’t think of one.
28. I’m proud of myself every time I set a goal and achieve it.
29. My life has been an adventure wherein I lived, loved and learned important lessons.
30. I am an introvert and among the most annoying people are extroverts, who are determined to “draw me out of my shell”. This is also one of the behaviors that makes me laugh out loud because all loners are not social misfits.
The End :)
Personally, I’m both a loner and a social misfit…but I’m okay with that…
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Oh my — I think I may be both too … lol :D
Very interesting. Hope y’all had a great Thanksgiving. :)
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We Canadians are a month ahead of you folks down south when it comes to celebrating Thanksgiving. We did have a fine weekend and I’ll be visiting your blog soon.
Thank you for this interview. It reveals a wonderful, compassionate and conscious woman. And just by sharing who you really are you’re an inspiration. I am honored that you allowed me to see a part of your life. Every time we share we create bliss.
I loved your favorite word: “yes”.
Thank you for taking the time to answer this. You really are a very important person, you know :-)
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@Dragos
I’m sending you a cyber hug for inspiring em to sit down and answer your questions. :)
Nice to know you TT :) Sorry to know that you recently had to bear the loss of your two pets.
‘All loners are not social misfits’ – well-said.
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Thanks for your concern Meam. It’s impossible not to miss the two dear little dogs who were with me every night for 15 years. However, I now have a new dog that’d bringing me lots of joy.
Dear TT, my beautiful dear long time friend. I just devoured this. I had no idea that we were roughly the same age. I am 55. Your whole spirit is so so so young. But then if I honestly look at myself I am the same way. So young at heart.
I got shivers reading this whole thing. In many aspects it was like reading about myself. AND I actually feel stronger from reading it. As if reading it somehow confirmed who I am as well.
I just LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE these words, which are just slipped in there soooo humbly that many might miss the TOTAL explosive brilliance of them. You spoke my heart and life experience when you wrote:
* Ideas, theories and beliefs are not necessarily truths.
* A belief is not an idea held by the mind; it is an idea that holds the mind.
* We don’t see things as they are; we see things as we are.
My dear sweet friend I am just hugging you for this. I will NOT forget these lines. You know, I just sense one day we will meet. You are a bold dynamic beautiful woman and soul. Just in being YOU, you make me stronger and more bold. Thank you from my heart, TT. I am sending you much love, Robin
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@Robin
Here I am soaking in your love and sending mine back to you. Yes, we are of an age –lol :D We have so much in common that when I read your blog I’m often amazed by the similarities. I read all the comments you get and I can find nothing of value to share within me, so I smile and blow you all kisses as I click out.
We have both learned that learning to love is an experience that transcends many lives, and when we close our minds to learning to love we close our minds to life and love itself. We both know life’s changes are challenges, meant to help us grow and become more powerful, purposeful and strong in our compassion. The more difficult the challenge we face, the more valuable the life lesson will be. Likewise we know the same life lessons will be presented to us over again until we learn them. For, death is a transition, a new beginning.
Beauty is before me, and beauty is behind me.
Beauty is above me and below me.
I am surrounded and immersed in beauty.
May we always walk the beauty way dear sister.
I don’t think my last comment made it through so I will try this again. I really loved reading these interview answers–although of course, much I already knew from being your friend for going on two years. We share quite a few aspects of our lives (of course, we knew that)–from our husbands being our best friends to chronic health challenges. I really sensed a level of calm and serenity with yourself in these answers, which was wonderful to see.
Take care,
Melinda
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@Melinda
I got duplicate comments and chose to approve that last one. Indeed we also share so many similarities and that’s wonderful. I’m so happy I met you and that you choose to be my friend. Your also right about the serenity factor. That’s where I’m at. I hope we never lose touch with each other. Thanks so much for the visit and comment.
Love and peace dear sister
@timethief…Amazing idea to interview oneself…I coped and pasted the Qs in a word doc and will answer them soon. Your answers are very inspiring and it shows that you have a great spirit and clear understanding of self! Your site is awesome…Thank you so much for spending great time to bring a rich content and useful ones for others in your posts :)
@Sara
It’s wonderful to hear from you and also to hear positive feedback on my blog. It’s Dragos Roua who supplied the questions and I’m interested to see what your answers will be. Thank you for being a regular reader and all the best of the season to you.
Well, now that I know you are a researcher and librarian, I like you even more! :)
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@Jennifer
I’m laughing as I write this. Years ago I thought I had left the mainstream labor force forever and would not longer be doing any research or reference work. However, as time went by I found being an artist was physically demanding when you have to produce every day to make a living. My body started breaking down from working in our studio so I began to back away from that work and started taking on research and writing jobs. This is the busiest time of the year for my husband and I in our small business. We are working until we drop and having been keeping up that pace since Labor Day. I can barely keep up with reading all the blogs I have on feedreaders and I have very little time left over to comment in and to do my own blogging. In case I don’t get an opportunity to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year, I’ll do that now. May 2010 be a great year for you.
With much love,
tt
TT, it was very interesting to know this about you. I have known you for three years through your blogs and this is ever since I started blogging. And from the impression I have formed of you, none of the things you have said surprised me. I think of you as a warm and helpful person, because I guess I have seen how active you were on the wordpress forums.
You seem to have turned around your life and become a positive and happy person. Glad to know you!
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@Nita
It seems like the years have slipped on by very quickly since we first met on the forum. I’m happy to hear you were not surprised about what I wrote. Becoming conscious through meditation set me off on a different pathway, one that’s brought me into contact with wonderful people like yourself. Best wishes for a rewarding and prosperous new year.
Extroverts are misfits. They are so preoccupied with themselves and and their desires and position that there is little room left for anything else. Your answers are most interesting and show your concern with others as well your work with your own soul. Personally, I am too much of an introvert to take such a test and to put it on the web would require me to answer them in the voice of my alter-ego, Count Sneaky. My own life has been quite rewarding and totally unremarkable. Suffice it to say from my early teens ’til now, I have been an iconoclast, and by turns an extrovert and introvert, as my work demanded. I seek nothing. I am only an expression of the universal spirit and that is more than enough. I am a Buddhist by inspiration and temperament. Namaste
@Count Sneaky
“Suffice it to say from my early teens ’til now, I have been an iconoclast, and by turns an extrovert and introvert, as my work demanded. I seek nothing. I am only an expression of the universal spirit and that is more than enough.”
We are very much alike. Namaste dear friend.
I was sitting in a chair in a department store while my wife shopped yesterday. My legs are weak and have nerve damage, so that I cannot walk or stand long at a time. While sitting there watching and listening to the people bustling by, I was struck by the vision that, here was a perfect demonstration of one consciousness
poured into uncountable vases. Each vase is different in size, culture,education, intent, and age. Each vase looks different but it is still a vase. The marvel is this one consciousness and becoming aware of it. The intensity of the vision faded, as all visions do, but I will never forget the truth of it. Once, many years ago, on a winter’s afternoon, I found my self alone in the olive groves where Joan of Arc had her visions. It is behind the ancent house where she grew up in Domremy. The ancient house is not hers…it was burned by the Burgundians.
But never mind. In that place there was still a magic quality that spoke this same vivid vision.Namaste
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@Count Sneaky
Thanks so much for sharing your vision. Yes, we are all like vases. Hopefully I’m not a leaky vessel … :D (Buddhist joke).