Sunday, September 20, 2009

Six questions

What do you love the most?

What do you hate the most?

What scares you the most?

What do you want more than anything right now?

What do you expect from life?

What does the word homeland mean to you?

17 comments:

A. said...

This requires some thought. Give me time, you know I find thought difficult.

Unknown said...

I treated this like word association and am giving you my quick answers.

Freedom
Cruelty to any weaker person/animal
The world at war
My kids to love me
What I put into it
Where anyone lives

Kelly Ann said...

What do you love the most?
Pure love.

What do you hate the most?
Hate.

What scares you the most?
I'm fearless.

What do you want more than anything right now?
Everything.

What do you expect from life?
Anything.

What does the word homeland mean to you?
Dirt.


*snickers* :)

Sage said...

What do you love the most?

Being able to say I love you and mean it... more than anything else in the world..

What do you hate the most?

Waiting... I am way too impatient to see the minutes tick by... do it and do it now... my motto.

What scares you the most?

Not selling the house as quickly as I would like to ... I need to be gone before I get to scared to leave..

What do you want more than anything right now?

To sell the house

What do you expect from life?

Death

What does the word homeland mean to you?

Being where the heart is, and that is currently in Cornwall... not here at the back of beyond

A. said...

OK, a long car journey has allowed me to think.

What do you love the most?
People and the world we populate.

What do you hate the most?
Closed minds - there are many sorts. So this means there are some people I don't love, but I do love people in general and the rich pattern they weave.

What scares you the most?
Losing my sight?

What do you want more than anything right now?
The things I tend to think of are impossible so I'll settle for that cup of tea.

What do you expect from life?
The liberty to live my life.

What does the word homeland mean to you?
Where I feel most at home and comfortable, not necessarily the land of my birth.

Stephanie Barr said...

What do you love the most?
People

What do you hate the most?
People

What scares you the most?
What people are willing to do to each other.

What do you want more than anything right now?
Peace of mind

What do you expect from life?
Opportunity

What does the word homeland mean to you?
Planet Earth

Unknown said...

What do you love the most?
Money

What do you hate the most?
People. Specifically, stupid people.

What scares you the most?
Ending up in wheelchair with people changing my diapers.

What do you want more than anything right now?
My own one level house with a dishwasher.

What do you expect from life?
The same crap I've been getting for the pat 36 years.

What does the word homeland mean to you?
Taking off my shoes @ the airport, having people with mirrors look under my car when I cross the border into Canada...

Lidian said...

You know how to ask some tough questions!

1. My family and writing.
2. Lying.
3. Being old and infirm, and unrooted.
4. To live near the beach and have a book published. Rest of family fulfilled in their own ways.
5. What I put into it, I hope. Who knows?
6. More than one place: where I was born and have roots (US) but also where I am at home (Canada).

On rereading this I think I didn't really say it right, but this is the best I can do for now :)

Relax Max said...

What do you love the most?

"Family."

What do you hate the most?

"Ignorance."

What scares you the most?

"That man will succeed in his quest to destroy the planet."

What do you want more than anything right now?

"An end to intellectual and economic slavery."

What do you expect from life?

"Absolutely anything I ask, for which I am willing to pay the price."

What does the word homeland mean to you?

"My place of cultural and spiritual belonging where my soul feels most content; the place I want to die."

Relax Max said...

Obviously there are no right or wrong answers to a purely philosophical discussion like this. We all want different things, expect different things, believe different things.

If someone asked you a series of questions today, would you give the same answers you might have given a year ago? Five years ago? Ten years ago?

These six questions are known as "The Anna Questions" which were asked by Russian filmmaker Nikita Mikhalkov of his daughter Anna each year from the time she was six until she was 17. He documented each asking and answering in a film simply entitled "Anna."

This was done during the time of the Soviet Union, and, as Anna grew older, she began to express apprehension that perhaps one should not be asking such questions.

Here is a film review of that documentary, if you would like more information about the experiment.

Patchwork said...

1. A big glass of Pinotage and crackers.
2. Obligation and Prison Break at the moment.
3. Lung cancer and big bottle of Pinotage.
4. A better treatment for cancer than chemo.
5. Success.
6. Two mud huts and barefoot, runny-nosed children running after a passing aeroplane and asking it to bring sweets.

Suzanne said...

I haven't been here in a while and I find an assignment.
No time at the moment to take the test. Perhaps I will at a later date, but probably not.
What's with all the short posts?

Thank you for the information on the gig line, I immediately told the husband he was wrong. Priceless.

Relax Max said...

No wrong answers, no right answers. I don't know why I did this.

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So give him a gig and make him work it off washing dishes. Or something.

Dr. Cheryl Carvajal said...

1. Compassion
2. Fear-Hate (a certain brand of hate)
3. War
4. A caramel macciato
5. Purpose
6. My own peace of mind

Relax Max said...

Shakespeare, I've been thinking and I can't argue with any of your answers!

Sheila said...

A remarkable set of questions to ask a six year old. Some of them I can see could be interpreted by a six year old in a six year old way, but, "What do you expect from life?", What does homeland mean to you?"? In a way, it's a shame that he stopped at the age of 17 because that's when the answers might have changed as horizons start to widen.

petra said...

I so hate introspection.

Anyway - here goes:

1. My hubby
2. Working
3. Regret
4. Someone to refill my wine glass so I don't have to get up.
5. Not sure but I don't think this was it.
6. 2 thoughts - where I am from, and "homeland security." I really don't care much for either.

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