
You know the drill 😎
- What’s your biggest fear?
Dying alone 💀 More specifically, dying without having ever gotten married. I also fear not having some kind of offspring of my own eventually (adoption is perfectly fine and counts here btw; I would be happy with adopting in the future if necessary), but this fear isn't as great as dying without a wife.
- What’s your biggest desire?
Getting married and having a family of my own. Right behind that is saving the world in some way (or at least, significantly impacting the world for the better in some major way, like Jesus or Ghandi or MLK; I want to leave a legacy behind of having helped a LOT of people on a grand scale through a radical vision or personal philosophy of mine).
- What are you ''the best'' at?
Communication. I'm very good at "translating" people's thoughts so as to cut down on people talking past each other all the time. I'm also pretty good at predicting what people are about to say in general, and helping them feel understood. I can make things that are usually hard to understand into something simple and mass-communicable, and of course something actionable.
I'm not the best at it but I'm also better than most at providing emotional comfort, and compliments in general. I'm pretty good at anticipating what people need, and remembering unique things about them (such as their favorite snack or their own birthday or what have you), even if it's been a very long time since I've seen the person (and I'm talking years lol; as long as the person was special to me in some way, anyway). I'm also just very good at reading people in general.
- How do you see yourself right now?
I'd rather not say anything that'll make me look immodest or not humble, but I worry that just by saying this that I'm essentially doing the very thing I'm trying to avoid haha.
I guess if I absolutely have to say something, I see myself as a very perceptive person and someone who cares a lot about other people in general.
- How do you see yourself 5 years from now?
No idea. Idk how anyone could see that far into the future tbh lol. Ideally, I'd be married at least. And I'd have at least one kid, too. That would be really nice. I'd also like to have my own cult (jk but also kinda not; I want to start my own "church" or religious movement, so to speak).
- How do you express yourself?
I guess the way I'm doing it right now haha.
Nah but fr tho, I talk with my hands a lot I guess. I also have to talk my feelings out out loud in order to properly process them. So sometimes you might catch me off guard and see me muttering to myself when I didn't want you or anyone else to see, because sometimes I won't have anyone I can talk to or feel like I can honestly confide in. Sometimes I'm afraid opening up will make me look weak, especially if I'm the usually upbeat one making others feel better or playing the role of therapist (and especially if the person I want to open up to has, in the past, not listened, changed the subject, tried to gaslight or undermine me about what I know I experienced, threw it back at my face, shared with everyone what I told them in confidence, or what have you).
Sometimes I'm afraid opening up will make me look like a victim, and I don't want to look like like that. I often feel like it'll destroy this perfect image I have curated to make sure that other people think I'm fine and even great, and that I can still be the "nice," "sweet," "funny," "cool," or "charming" guy I usually am. Because it kinda feels like if I'm not all these things at all times, then others just... don't want me around for some reason.
I see most people, but most people don't see me. And by "see," I mean look at the inside of someone. Not simply the exterior. But it's fine as I'm pretty used to it by now and I accepted this a pretty long time ago, I think. I usually just deal with things on my own, anyway.
So I guess I don't really express myself.
- How do you feel about those near you (family, friends)?
I care immensely about them, but it often feels like they don't really care about me as much as I care about them.
- How do you feel about strangers?
They're just people, trying to get by like anyone else. I have no reason to feel ill will toward anyone who has yet to hurt me, and strangers fall into this category. In fact, I feel like people don't really care about their fellow man as much as they should. The Good Samaritan is a good example of how we ought to treat strangers, even those who we may be predisposed to not liking (the J3ws and Samaritans did not get along, but most people overlook the historical context of this passage in the Bible, among other amazing things like how the Samaritan was breaking a lot of man-made "purity laws" in deciding to save the J3w).
I really like the quote, "Be the change you want to see in the world." I want to embody what I feel like is sorely lacking in the world, and that to me is compassion. It feels like nobody is genuinely compassionate towards others anymore and it often frustrates me.
- How do you deal with conflict?
I try and kill 'em with kindness 👉😉👉 I will try to be very patient, and not stoop to the level of someone who is seemingly just trying to abuse me or be mean to me for whatever reason (sometimes they were just having a bad day though, to be fair; most people usually have good intentions and/or are just taking out on me frustrations that really came from elsewhere and not me).
If that doesn't work tho, I can kindaaaaa explode and that can look really ugly (which I will promptly feel extremely guilty and ashamed about immediately afterward, lol). I feel guilty for feeling negative emotions in general, though. Or expressing them, I guess.
If there's conflict between two other people, and it doesn't involve me, I tend to step in and try to mediate if it's at least somewhat civil, or get seriously angry and even sometimes forceful if who I perceive as the innocent party is literally being physically threatened. I don't feel as guilty for my emotions in these instances, funnily enough.
- How do you deal with change?
Not great and I'll just leave it at that lol.
- How do you deal with your emotions?
See my answers to questions 6 and 9 (lol 69).
- What do you hope to avoid doing or being? What values are important to you?
I hope to avoid being an uncaring person, or a person lacking in kindness and compassion and virtue in general. I also hope to avoid apathy, but these things can get to me sometimes if I'm not careful.
Integrity as a whole is very important to me, but a value I feel is probably most important is compassion. Very close behind this is loyalty, honesty, and steadfastness. Being true to your word. Etc. It's not kind to be lacking in any of these departments.
- What do you hope to accomplish in your life?
I just want to be a good person. I want to fulfill the purpose for which I and everyone else was created (at least in my opinion), and that is to love others genuinely and fully in the ways that people as individuals need to be loved.
- How do you act when others request your help to do something (anything)? If you would decide to help them, why would you do so?
It depends. If I'm in the middle of doing something already (usually for someone else), I can get annoyed (but promptly feel guilty about this and tell myself that I shouldn't be like that). Otherwise, I'm usually glad to help. It feels nice to be nice.
If I decide to help it's because I want to be a kind person, and it's just the right thing to do.
- Do you need logical consistency in your life?
Hmmm. Sometimes. I think more than anything I need moral consistency, which I guess might require logical consistency at times. But morality tends to outweigh logic for me in any case, unless I can use logic to show why something is actually evil and should be discouraged or avoided.
- How important is your image in regards to how others perceive you? Do you want to be perceived in a certain way? Does it bother you if you are perceived in some other way than the one you wish to be perceived with?
It's admittedly important to me, as guilty and ashamed as I am to say that (I'm working on it, tho).
I want to be perceived as a good person. A kind and compassionate person.
It bothers me immensely when I'm perceived in a way other than the way I wish to be perceived. Though it doesn't bother me as much (if at all) if I'm perceived as too aggressive or flippant when I step in to defend somebody I care about/someone I think is being persecuted or abused or bullied or what have you.
- How important is financials, security, and survival to you? This includes having sufficient resources, avoiding danger and maintaining a fundamental sense of structure and wellbeing
Meh. I want emotional stability more than anything, lol. Emotional turmoil feels more dangerous than actual, physical threats for some reason. (Except bugs, they're the only exception to the rule and they terrify me 👁👁 I try and trap bugs that wander into my house in order to throw them outside tho. I reaaaally don't like killing them cuz idk it's just mean and I feel bad if I do that, man; they're just trying to live and they don't even really know what's going on anyway, there's very little reason to kill them most of the time.)
If there ever is an immediate physical threat, I wake up like a sleeper agent and suddenly get super smart and hyper-aware of every little thing going on. That's only happened a few times in my life, though (I'm grateful for being able to live as comfortable as I do in a first world country with good, albeit helicopter, parents that raised me lol), so thankfully I don't usually have to go full on "Jason Bourne" on people and the world in the day-to-day 😎😂
- What is your reaction and thoughts to others' rejection, criticism and disapproval of you?
Bad.
I try not to think too much about it.
- What is the importance of the concepts, ideas and meaning behind things to you? Are you trying to make sense of your everyday life?
Extremely important. I'm always thinking about the meaning of things. I don't know why more people don't think about these kinds of things, you're going to die eventually lol. You'd think you'd want to get things like meaning and purpose sorted out before the inevitable comes...
- What are your thoughts on expressing your vulnerability?
It's hard for me to show vulnerability.
- Would you consider yourself a jealous and/or possessive person? What do you think is the cause?
I didn't think I was but recent events have come up that have made me realize that I'm a lot more jealous and possessive than I previously thought.
- What makes you feel guilty? How do you deal and cope with such feelings? Do you seek to fix it, or do you dwell on them?
I've kinda already answered this in various ways throughout everything I've written here.
- What do you think is an example of an ideal person? Emphasize which qualities are more important to you, and explain whether this ideal is something you’d want to be, or someone you would like to seek out
Jesus.
He has innumerable qualities that I can't possibly expound on in any meaningful way that anybody else before me hasn't already in the past 2000 years (lol). If I absolutely had to say something, though, I'd say the qualities I find most important from him are his self-sacrificial and faithful nature.
I seek Jesus out every day, as do I seek to emulate him 😊
- How do you view and judge reality?
Uhhh idek how to answer this tbh lol. Seems more like an MBTI question if I'm being completely honest.
Reality is reality. We all share one objective reality, though some people for some reason think reality is whatever you want it to be (which is wrong, and dangerous). There are underline, spiritual things that need to be discerned with a more careful eye at times, yes, but it's still the same reality we all share at the end of the day (even on the spiritual side of things, which we all have access to in varying ways, with some being positive and some negative of course).
The question Pilate asked of Jesus during his trial and interrogation toward him is the same question the post-modernist asks: "What is truth?" It is just as dangerous and crafty a question as the one the serpent asked of Eve in the Garden of Eden: "Did ___ really say...?"
Reality is also pretty brutal if we don't act to change it or be above it in some way. Like the quote I referenced earlier, we have to "be the change [we] want to see in the world." Reality is, sadly, harsh and often dark. But a city set on a hill cannot be hid, and neither can a lamp in the corner of a dark room...
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