These past two weeks are an insightful bunch. This week(end)’s questions:
- What activity can you not believe you survived in your childhood? I’m pretty boring; I never really did anything that could have gotten me killed. I got a hugely painful hornet sting when I was really young, though, about six. It’s one of my most vivid memories. I was sitting outside behind the mailbox unit in my cul-de-sac on the first military base where I grew up. I was reading a book to my friends: one about the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote. One hand was holding the book, the other was in the grass, and a hornet landed on my hand and stung me. I screamed my head off, and my mom scraped out the stinger with something shiny and silver in the upstairs bathroom.
- What activity can you not believe kids get away with today? Having sex and babies, honestly. There has got to be something we can do. Violence and laziness and inactivity are bad, too, but kids shouldn’t be having kids.
- If you could be anyone else in the world [a]live or dead, who would you choose to be? It would be fascinating to be President Obama right now, but I’d probably want to be the Blessed Mother or one of my favorite saints.
- A lot of people think they’ve been in love at 15 or 16 years old, do you think you now look back and think you were a stupid kid or do you believe that you were old enough to know what love is? I was definitely stupid. I assess that relationship like this: Either love can end, or it can’t. If you believe that love can end, then I fell out of love with him. If you don’t, then I never was. Based on the variety of relationships I’ve had since then, so many of which are unbelievably strong, I’m included to support the latter.
- Do you think it is possible to remain in love with someone you once loved, but haven’t seen in a year? Memories are powerful things. They can propel our lives or haunt us. I believe that true love never ends, though, so no.
- How would you define beauty? Beautiful people and things reflect the inherent and awesome beauty of their Creator.
- What is the best quality a person can have? Holiness. The guys that attract me are the ones that seem like intelligent, wise, fun, and holy men. I love a guy who loves God.
- What is the worse [sic] quality a person can have? Selfishness. It applies in so many aspects of life, from loving God to loving others. If all you care about is yourself, there’s not even room for anyone to care about you.
- What makes up your perfect match? I like people who can have a good conversation, who are committed to their passions, and who bring out my good qualities and can ignore the bad ones. I love people who love God, who can appreciate Harry Potter, and who like to laugh.
- Have you met this person yet? Perhaps.
