40 questions for the year
Inspired by Stephan, here’s an in-progress list of questions to answer once per year. I don’t know that I’ll ever hit forty of them, but who knows?
- What did you do this year that you’d never done before?
- Did anyone close to you give birth? Die?
- What was your biggest achievement of the year?
- What was your biggest failure?
- What hardships did you face?
- What help did you receive?
- What was the best thing you spent money on?
- Where did most of your money go?
- Whose behavior merited celebration?
- Whose behavior appalled you?
- What do you wish you’d done more of? Less of?
- What was the best book you read?
- What was your favorite show and/or film?
- What was your greatest musical discovery of the year?
- What was your favorite meal?
- What political issue stirred you the most?
- What song or quote sums up your year?
And for the decade (also inspired by Stephan). Gotta try these on our next date night…
- What would you do if you had 6 months to live?
- What would you do if you had a billion dollars?
- What advice would you give yourself 10 years ago?
- What do you hope will be the same 10 years from now?
- What do you hope will be different 10 years from now?
- What is your idea of perfect happiness?
- When and where were you happiest?
- Why do you get out of bed in the morning?
- What do you consider the lowest depth of misery?
- What is your most marked characteristic?
- What is your greatest fear?
- What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
- What is the trait you most deplore in others?
- On what occasion do you lie?
- What is your greatest extravagance?
- What do you consider the most overrated virtue?
- What do you most dislike about your appearance?
- If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
- Which talent would you most like to have?
- What do people frequently misunderstand about you?
- What is the quality you most like in a man?
- What is the quality you most like in a woman?
- What do you most value in your friends?
- What do you consider your greatest achievement?
- If you could give everyone in the world one gift, what would it be?
- What was your greatest waste of time?
- What do you find painful but worth doing?
- Where would you most like to live?
- What is your most treasured possession?
- Who is your best friend?
- Who or what is the greatest love of your life?
- Which living person do you most admire?
- Who is your hero of fiction?
- Which historical figure do you most identify with?
- What is your greatest regret?
- How would you like to die?
- What is your motto?
- What is the best compliment you ever received?
- What is the luckiest thing that happened to you?
- What makes you hopeful?