Since we're in that dreadful existential hole known as Crimbo Limbo (the useless week between Christmas and New Years), I'm going to take a questionnaire I just found on Facebook.
1. Are you doing what you truly want to do?
Right now? No. Right now I'd like to be riding a white Arabian horse under a pure blaze of sunlight beside dazzling turquoise waters. In the Greek isles. And I'm not.
2. How many promises you have made and how many of them you have fulfilled?
So this says "how many promises you have made/you have fulfilled". Let me see. Just my wedding vows, though I think they were written a little more grammatically than this.
3. Will you break the rules because of something/someone you care about?
The rules? Not sure which ones, but yes.
4. Is there anything you can't let go of but you know you should?
I don't deal in "shoulds" because they immediately make me want to do the opposite. So, no. I can't let go of anything because I don't want to.
5. Do you remember anyone you hated 10 years ago? Does it matter now?
My sister. Yes.
6. If you'd die now, would you have any regrets?
"If you'd die now" can mean several things: "if you had die now", "if you did die now" or "if you would die now". So I have a creeping regret that I even started this. But, to answer the question , yes! I'd have all kinds of regrets. I really wish I could go right back to the beginning again, but be born into a different family and thus purge off all this genetic horror.
Then again, if I really died NOW I'd have no regrets, and you know why.
7. Are you afraid of making mistakes even though there's no punishments at all?
"There's no punishments at all"? Let me mention a few mistakes that may or may not lead to "no punishments at all".
You cheat on your spouse.
You're the driver in a hit-and-run accident.
You embezzle money from your workplace.
You leave your kid in his car seat while the car is running, nip into the liquor store for a quick purchase, come back after (I swear) only 15 minutes or so, and the car is gone.
When talking about mistakes and how wonderful it is to make mistakes because they teach you about life, people must mean things like "forgot to give back that Bic pen I borrowed" They can't possibly be referring to things that might leave us morally compromised or full of a gnawing, secret guilt that lasts a lifetime and blights any chance at happiness.
So yes.
8. What's the difference between you and most of the other people?
Most of "the" other people? WHICH other people? Specify if you want me to answer this!
9. Are you doing what you truly want to do?
No! I'd rather be working in a salt mine. Look at my answer to Question One, you flaming idiot!
10. If today'd be the end of the world, what'd you do?
"If today'd be the end of the world", I wouldn't be doing anything because I'd be dead like everyone else (see question 6).
Note: "today'd" can mean "today did", as in "if today did be the end of the world, or "today would", as in "if today would be the end of the world" (both nonsensical). It might even mean "if today had be the end of the world," which is totally ludicrous.
"What'd" means "what did", as in "what did you do?", or "what would", as in . . . oh never mind.
CONCLUSIONS. This is not the Proust questionnaire.
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