Deep questions in Surveys

1. What is more difficult for you, looking into someones eyes when you are telling someone how you feel, or looking into someones eyes when they are telling you how they feel?

Well I’m naturally empathetic I like to think, so it’s obviously harder for me for me to tell my story I think.

2. Think of the last time you were REALLY angry. WHY were you angry? Do you still feel the same way?

That would obviously be at my dad’s Facebook post, claiming that “homosexuality is a choice, just like rapists and murderers” choose to do those things. Naturally it pissed me off to no end, I deleted my father from seeing any of my posts ever again.
Yes I’m still very mad at him and I don’t feel it will ever be resolved.

3. You are on a flight from Honolulu to Chicago non-stop. There is a fire in the back of the plane. You have enough time to make ONE phone call. Who do you call? What do you tell them?

I’ll leave the names of the cities, even though I should change them to Aussie ones. First of all, I’m confused as to how I’d make a call from a plane, but if I could, I guess the most natural person I’d call would be my mother and I’d do the natural thing and reassure her that I loved her and I’ll see her again some day.

4. You are at the doctor’s office and he has just informed you that you have approximately one month to live. Do you tell anyone/everyone you are going to die? What do you do with your remaining days? Would you be afraid?

Tough one. One one hand I’d want to send out a generic Facebook post to everyone on there so that they know, but on the other hand I’d not want anyone at all to know I was dying. To have a set-date exactly when I’ll drop dead is pretty terrifying and I wouldn’t want to put that on anybody, but it might make some people who have never ever taken any time to get to know me, want to at least say hello or tell me something they never shared with me, if they knew they soon couldn’t. Which is silly, because we all die one day. I think I’d prefer to not know when.

5. You can have one of the following two things. Which do you choose? Why? Love and Trust.

Both are wonderful feelings, but based on what I know, I’d have to say trust is more important. If I can’t trust, then I have no purpose or faith in anyone. And what is love without trust?

6. You are walking down the street on your way to work. There is a dog drowning in the canal on the side of the street. Your boss has told you if you are late even once more, you are fired. Do you take the time to save the dogs life? Why or Why not?

I re-read this survey earlier and my immediate thought was that only a mean person wouldn’t save the dog! I can get another job anywhere. Fuck the boss. I might make a friend for life.

7. Would you rather be hurt by the one you trust the most or the one you love the most?

Going back to the trust thing. Betrayal is a horrid, bitter feeling. Heartbreak is plain upsetting. I’m gonna go with trust.

8. Your best friend confesses that he/she has feelings for you more than just friendship. He/she is falling in love with you. What do you (or did you) do/say?

Well, in my life, they are my best friend for a reason. It would be a perfect scenario if I felt the same way, but if I didn’t, I’d be honest with them and hope that we could be mature about the outcome and continue being friends.

9. Think of the last person who you know that died. You have the chance to give them 1 hour of life back, but you have to give up one year of yours. Do you do it? Why or Why not?

I assume this is personally, and I guess that’d be Lukas? I only ever had one conversation with him over Facebook and that wasn’t that long. I’d have to say I would give up the year for the hour back, because I have no idea if I’ll live to a young age or an old age, and every year extra is a blessing extra and I’ll only lose one blessing.

10. Are you the kind of friend that you would want to have as a friend?

I’m strange. I think that quite often. I often think it takes a special kind of person to want to be friends with me. I hate talking on the phone (telemarketers, friends, mum, anyone), I like doing my own thing a LOT, but I’m not a complete homebody. I’m nice, I’m polite and I like to think I’m funny. I just don’t think a lot of people ‘get’ me. I often feel like I don’t know where to start in making new friendships, and I only have a rare few ‘good’ friends that I can just hang out with every day.
Thinking about if I was sitting on the couch next to myself, I’d probably find myself quite boring and ordinary, because I don’t say much, speak my mind out loud etc, but I’d be humbled at my hospitality in offering myself a drink or food or company, if that makes sense.

11. Does love = sex?

I’m a bit confused by this question. The two are completely different things, and if/when they combine as one, well that’s just perfect, isn’t it?

12.Your boss tells your coworker that they have to let them go because of work shortage, and they are the newest employee. You have been there much longer. Your coworker has a family to support and no other means of income. Do you go to your boss and offer to leave the company? Why or Why not?

This is probably the toughest question in this survey for me, because isn’t that usually the way things go anyway? I guess it’d depend if I liked the job or not. If I did, no. If I didn’t, yes. The new employee would be pissed off at the boss and would only know if I chose the ‘yes’ option, right?

13.When was the last time you told someone HONESTLY how you felt regardless of how difficult it was for you to say? Who was it? What did you have to tell the person?

Fuck, I have to really think about this one. I don’t speak my mind anywhere near enough in life, hence why I write haha. I suppose I was pretty brave sending Jason a Valentine’s message last year, but what other day was I gonna be able to do that on? He just replied that he was ‘already spoken for’, but I’m not sure how true that is these days. Either way, he’s straight.
Other than that, I guess it was 12 years ago when I came out to my parents. Fuck, that was hard. I couldn’t even physically say the words out loud.

14. What would be (or what was) harder for you to tell a member of the opposite sex, you love them or that you do not love them back?

Ergh, fuck this question.

15. What do you think would be the hardest thing for you to give up? Why would it be hard to lose?

I guess my health? Because I’ve worked so hard for it and if I lost it it would be so much harder to gain it back.

16. Excluding romantic love, when was the last time you told someone you loved them. Who were they to you?

I think the only person I say I love is my mum.

17. If there was one moment and one time in the last month what would you change and why?

I can’t think of anything. Probably that mole at work. I would have not answered that call-up lol.

18.Imagine it is a dark night, you are alone, it is raining outside, you hear someone walking around outside your window. WHO do you wish was there with you?

I assume this means IN the house with me and not the thing outside? I’d wish a pet dog was with me so he’d bark at them to fuck off.

19. Would you give a homeless person CPR if they were dying? Why or Why not?

Ummm, yes. Who cares if they are homeless?? It’s the civil thing to do, for me.

20.You are holding onto your grandmother’s hand and the hand of a newborn that you do not know as they hang over the edge of a cliff. You have to let one go to save the other. Who do you let fall to their death? What was your rationale for making the decision?

Ooooo, good one. Fuck, do I let granny dearest break her brittle old bones on the rocks below or do I let the newborn go? I have to admit I’m a bit torn on this one. I don’t see how the newborn would weigh as much as the grandmother but I don’t know the newborn. Logically thinking, I would think if I tried to save Granny, she’d drag me over the edge of the cliff with her, so I’d probably save the newborn. This one was hard!

21. Are you old fashioned?

I think I am in a lot of ways, in the way that I don’t like to try risky things in life, like drugs etc. I was born in a pre-technology age, so I think I still have a bit of that in me. I like to read and go for walks.

22. When was the last time you were nice to someone and did NOT expect anything in return for it?

That’d be at work every day haha.

23.Which would you choose, true love with a guarantee of a broken heart, or never loved at all? Why?

Well I think the true love is living life a little more than not experiencing it, so I’d go the former.

24.If you could do anything or wish anything, what would it be?

For unlimited wishes :P