I am still learning and when I chose to think otherwise it will be time for me to throw off my Hamletian "mortal coil" or to put it in the less famous words of Monty Python: "time to kick the bucket, shuffle off my mortal coil, rung down the curtain and join the bleedin' choir invisible! To become an ex-Peter!".

 

I took the Proust Questionnaire:

 

The principal aspect of my personality -

-- My ability to rise above things that matter least, looking out from the things that matter most.

 

The quality that I desire in others.

-- Integrity

 

What I appreciate most about my friends.

-- "Anzac like" mateship.

 

My main fault

-- Not being able to realise my vision one step at a time. Oh the pain.

 

My favorite occupation.

-- Thinking.

 

My dream of happiness

-- "Overcoming", realising difficulty.

 

What would be my greatest misfortune?

-- My premature death, I have a bank vault list of things I must do.. must.

 

What I should like to be.

-- Who I am now.

 

The country where I should like to live.

-- A place where the philosophy of equal humanity is embraced and where the quest for excellence is the national sport.

 

My favourite colour.

-- Red

 

The flower that I like.

-- Rose

 

My favorite birds.

-- The emperor penguin and the hummingbird.

 

My favorite prose author.

-- Graham Greene

 

My favorite poets.

-- Robert Browning

 

My heroes / heroines in fiction.

-- Atticus Finch, Hamlet and Holden Caufield, Madam Bovry, Josephine March

 

My favorite composer.

-- Mozart

 

My favorite painter.

-- Dali

 

My heroes in real life.

-- Terry Fox, Ethel Mary Riley and the women of the Congo

 

The gift of nature that I would like to have.

-- Will-power.

 

How I want to die.

-- In good shape…

 

My present state of mind.

-- At ease

 

My motto:

-- There’s no good nor bad but thinking makes it so, (Thanks Will)