Since Sudabaki sent in a zillion questions, I just picked a few:
1. Health, Money or Love? (Pick just one!) I pick health. Without your health, loving well and making money would be very difficult, not to mention kind of worthless.
2. Briefly imagine yourself standing at the edge of a body of water. Do you imagine yourself by a creek, river, swimming pool, lake, puddle, reservoir, pond, ocean, or someplace else altogether?
Ocean. I love the ocean.
3. If you had to lose one of your senses and you could pick which one, what would you pick? Why? This is a tuffy. I couldn't bear to lose the sense of touch, sight or hearing. So it's between taste and smell. I imagine taste would be affected if you couldn't smell. But a lot of men lose their sense of smell and seem able to taste just fine. Since I'm a crazy foodie, I really would hate to lose the sense of taste. So I'm going for smell.
4. What one thing did you do in childhood that still haunts your conscience? It's not so much what I did, but what other people did that haunts me.
5. A life without books or a life without electronic media? This question makes a novelist like me want to vomit. Both options are bad. No electronic media means no Question of the Day. No books means living without the comfort of my oldests friends. There's nothing like escaping in a book. But, as a writer, answering this horrible question, my work could still be read via electronic media, therefore I'd have to go with a life without books.
I'm going to go hug my bookshelves now. What about you?
xoxo,
Suzanne
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1. I would have to agree. Health seems to be the most important of the three. Once you're physically and mentally healthy the other two things just sort of fall into place!
ReplyDelete2. It's a very specific spot for me. My very first time attempting to take photos of nature! I went on a camping trip with my brothers and friends to go dirt biking and such. My brother took me on the dirt bike to a lake that was absolutely GORGEOUS!! I got off the dirt bike, pulled out my camera from it's safe hiding place and snapped some photos. I remember thinking that the lake water was so clear and inviting! I just wanted to jump in!!!
3. Hmm this is really rough. I'm a sense freak. Where ever I am I try to take in all of the senses around me! The smell of the area and to be able to remember something just by a smell?! It's so amazing to me! The taste of food! The feel of something textured (I'm also a toucher . . . before I buy ANYTHING clothes, stuffed animals, towels, anything)! I LOVE to listen to the sounds of life. And to see life?! I feel so blessed that I have all of my senses. I really can't answer this question because every single one would be a huge loss for me. I guess I'd have to Russian Roulette for this one. Or have someone else pick.
4. I guess it haunted my conscience so badly that I don't really remember my childhood. Truthfully I know that it was really just events in my childhood that made me forget about 99% of it. Go go defense mechanisms!
5. Really rough question. I am a lover of both! There is nothing like the feeling of a hard cover book with crisp pages to run your fingers/mind through! Then again I'm in love with connecting to other minds via the internet and sites like these! But if I were to imagine myself in my dream job it would be just sitting on a comfy chair, reading books to my heart's content. So I would say a life without electronic media!
Ps. I'm in love with these barrage of questions!
Some of these are tough! I'll try, though.
ReplyDelete1. Health. I agree with your reasoning.
2. The ocean
3. This one's impossible! For sure I'd keep sight; I guess it'd be a toss-up for the other four.
4. In kindergarten there was a little playhouse on the playground that I never went in 'cause only the cool kids played there. I think it's funny that even in kindergarten I had a sense of who the cool kids were, and I stayed away from them.
5. Tough choice, but I guess I'd do without the electronic media. I'm sure we'd be more in tune with the natural world if we gave up some of that...
1. Tough one! Health.
ReplyDelete2. a lake
3. smell
4. nothing that really haunts me (luckily!)
5. Oh, man! I don't know!
1. Definitely health, for the obvious reasons.
ReplyDelete2. Definitely the ocean, any one of them.
3. Taste. I would hate to think I couldn't smell the flowers, fresh rain, etc. and I could lose a few pounds.
4. Once, I took $5 from the purse of my favorite aunt. I have no earthly idea why I took it and she never found out (or maybe she knew and just didn't want to get me in trouble). Part of the ways I was raised was to never steal and never disrespect people, and I did both. I've never forgotten it.
5. I would also have to say books, and I'm going now to apologize to every single book in my house.
Oh, wow. Those *are* tough. Just thinking about the last one, especially, makes me nervous and itchy.
ReplyDelete1. I don't think it's possible to be truly healthy without love. So, I going with Love.
ReplyDelete2. The Ocean... love, love, love the ocean.
3. smell
4. I slapped my sister across the face once and it broke my heart. Thinking about it still makes me sad.
5. I love books too but I'd give them up.
1. Health. After the unhealthy year I've had - no question on this one.
ReplyDelete2. A lake. As a kid, I spent my summers at a lake and its serenity and secrets have stuck with me.
3. This year I have lost my sense of hearing, smell, and taste. It's a tough call because without my sight, I couldn't work. Without hearing I couldn't hear the beautiful voice of my daughter. When I lost my sense of taste, I lost my will to eat. So I guess it would have to be smell - although I realized how much I depend on that for safety (is the milk bad, is there a gas leak, smell of smoke etc.).
4. I rolled a frog in sand and it died.
5. I have lived without electronic media, and could happily continue to do so.
Health.
ReplyDeleteOcean.
Smell.
Books. Same reasons as you. Wow. We have the same answers!
1. Definitely love.
ReplyDelete2. The ocean, it's my favorite place to be.
3. Smell, since due to numerous allergies, I never really can smell anyway.
4. Nothing from my childhood haunts me.
5. Electronic media.
These are really tough questions!
ReplyDelete1. Health, Money or Love? (Pick just one!) This is too difficult. I don't think that we could live without one of them. So, I just can give you my order: Love (I agree to Beck that a life without love would be unhealthy), Health and Money (As much as I would love to spent my life without it, I must admit that many aspects depend on it nowadays ;p).
2. Briefly imagine yourself standing at the edge of a body of water. Do you imagine yourself by a creek, river, swimming pool, lake, puddle, reservoir, pond, ocean, or someplace else altogether? I love nature, but it would be a river leading to the ocean. I love the philosophy of the stream.
3. If you had to lose one of your senses and you could pick which one, what would you pick? Why? That's not a pretty thought. Definitely not my sense of touch, sight or hearing. I'm also going for smell, like you Suzanne. I think losing the sense of taste would have a great impact on my appetite and health.
4. What one thing did you do in childhood that still haunts your conscience? I can't think of anything.
5. A life without books or a life without electronic media? I'm confused too, like Kelly. As much as I would like to live without electronic media, I don't know if I could do it without them anymore. It includes such a wide variety from television, digital photography, telephone, computer, Internet etc. But I know that getting addicted or dependent to this high-tech devices makes us less interactive with people and nature around us. Sometimes kind of lazy, too ;).
Health without a doubt for the reasons you mentioned.
ReplyDeleteI agree on the ocean.
I think I would give up taste if I had to pick one.
Oh number 4. Let me just say...I am sorry Susan.
The only thing harder to imagine than living without the internet is that 20 years ago there was none.
1. Health, Money or Love? (Pick just one!) LOVE. While I agree health is very important, I don't even want to live a single day without love.
ReplyDelete2. Briefly imagine yourself standing at the edge of a body of water. Do you imagine yourself by a creek, river, swimming pool, lake, puddle, reservoir, pond, ocean, or someplace else altogether? Ocean. Nothing better in the entire world than the beach and ocean.
3. If you had to lose one of your senses and you could pick which one, what would you pick? Why? Again, easy - smell. First of all I have terrible allergies so can barely smell the way it is. If I had to pick another one though it would be touch. I love to eat too much to give up taste. I would give up in this order: smell, touch, taste, hearing, seeing.
4. What one thing did you do in childhood that still haunts your conscience? What haunts me from childhood is what other dids, but yeah I do have a few regrets and wish I was more honest with people back then.
5. A life without books or a life without electronic media? Life without books - hey I'm an IT person, I can't live without electronic anything! I would rather read books on my computer or have them read to me via a CD.