1.__What is your idea of perfect happiness?
Reading, music, family and friends
2.__What is your greatest fear?
Isolation
3.__What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
Caring too much about what people think of me
4.__What is the trait you most deplore in others?
Arrogance
5.__Which living person do you most admire?
My parents
6.__What is your greatest extravagance?
When I bought my Samsung S1 Watch in 6th grade
7.__What is your current state of mind?
Busy
8.__What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
Sympathy
9.__On what occasion do you lie?
When it’s something small that I know is easily fixed
10.__What do you most dislike about your appearance?
Acne, arms, legs, stomach/abdomen
11.__Which living person do you most despise?
No one that comes to mind
12.__What is the quality you most like in a man?
Loyalty, kindness, humor, ABS
13.__What is the quality you most like in a woman?
Nice skin, humor, kindness, the ability to calm me down
14.__Which words or phrases do you most overuse?
Like, umm, so, clarity
15.__What or who is the greatest love of your life?
The s/o I wish I had
16.__When and where were you happiest?
When I’m alone in my room and I get lost in a good book, even if I’ve read it a million times… That or on the softball field
17.__Which talent would you most like to have?
Athleticism, strength, pain tolerance, fearlessness
18.__If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
I wouldn't procrastinate
19.__What do you consider your greatest achievement?
ILH All-Star Second Team in freshmen year
20.__If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be?
I would come back as a phoenix (even though they don’t exist) because a phoenix has eternal life.
21.__Where would you most like to live?
Somewhere I could make it big like LA or NY
22.__What is your most treasured possession?
My lockbox and notebooks
23.__What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?
Living in constant fear without any risk or happiness
24.__What is your favorite occupation?
Acting or research (Chemistry)
25.__What is your most marked characteristic?
Sarcastic
26.__What do you most value in your friends?
Trust, kindness, humor
27.__Who are your favorite writers?
Veronica Roth, Jenny Han, JK Rowling, John Green
28.__Who is your hero of fiction?
Scarlet witch
29.__Which historical figure do you most identify with?
I don't identify with any
30.__Who are your heroes in real life?
My parents and friends
31.__What are your favorite names?
Shailynn, Kyrie, Theo, Alec, Jace, Tobias, Beatrice, Bellatrix, Lara Jean
32.__What is it that you most dislike?
When people talk bad about me behind my back; if you don’t have the guts to say it to my face, don’t say it at all
33.__What is your greatest regret?
Wasting so much time not doing anything when I could be doing something productive
34.__How would you like to die?
Quick and painless
35.__What is your motto?
Expect the worst, but hope for the best.
Rules are made to be broken.
Learn how to control your fear and be free from it.
Being fearless and acting in spite of fear appear similar but are very different.
The only thing to fear is fear itself.
The questions I struggled with the most were…
The historical figure I identified with (29), What I would come back as if I were to die (20), My greatest extravagance (6).
The answers I will probably change in 5 years are…(because)...
My greatest extravagance because I will probably be buying much more than a watch, especially because I will be in college and on my own. I also think I will change my motto because I'm kind of in a phase where the idea of fear is intriguing to me. The one about the talents I wish I had will also probably change because I'm probably going to have different priorities and values in 5 years.
The answers that surprised me the most were….
My greatest regret (33), my greatest fear (2), when and where I was the happiest (16)
The questions I had an instinctual reaction to and could easily answer were...
The traits I deplore in myself and others (3 and 4), the greatest love of my life (15), my most treasured possession (22), what I most dislike about my appearance (10).
Expand on one...for example, if your answer to number 29 was “Marie Antoinette”, explain why in a short paragraph.
For number 27, my answer was Veronica Roth, J.K. Rowling, Jenny Han, and John Green. I chose these authors because each of them wrote a novel or series with a story that impacted me in one way or another. J.K. Rowling is the author that made me fall in love with reading at such a young age. I read my first Harry Potter book the summer before 3rd grade, and my nose was stuck in that book until I finished the series in 4th grade (I was a slow reader). I was also really attracted to the way J.K. Rowling used foreshadowing in her works. I then moved to more of a high school level reading, and read Divergent by Veronica Roth in fifth grade. I fell in love all over again. Her words transported me to unimaginable places. I was fascinated by the way Veronica Roth was able to paint a picture in my mind as I read, and the way her words made me feel as though I was actually in the story. Allegiant, the last book in the series, was the first book I cried over. Once I finished with the Divergent series, I decided to read a book that had a movie coming out which was The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Though it was still a fictional novel, the setting was more realistic than the previous two, and the story was more mature. It was something different, but I loved it just the same. I think it's amazing how John Green uses metaphors in the novel. I also cried in this book and got strange looks from people at recess because of it. It wasn't until recently that I first picked up a Jenny Han novel. This was To All the Boys I've Loved Before. Again, the setting was more realistic, and it wasn't really the genre I would normally read. It is like a romance/comedy book, and the books I tend to like have more drama. However, this series was probably the most relatable as it is written from the perspective of a high school girl. Most of my thoughts coincide with those of the protagonist in this trilogy, though there were some times I couldn't relate... all the romance parts of the novel. All in all, these authors all had some kind of effect on the way I write and on my life in general. whether it be ideas, or introducing new hobbies and interests, they all played an integral part, and I love them all.
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