When I see older generations struggling with technology, I am afraid of it moving so quickly that I can’t use it.
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What is your idea of perfect happiness?
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When were you happiest?
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Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Still nuclear annihilation.
Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, May 2015 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 255 →Generally? Hurting someone’s feelings. Specifically? Being kidnapped while on vacation.
Losing my husband. We are properly codependent.
Talking too much.
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View profile →Happiness is going to come and go, but to have a chance at intermittent happiness you need to be free from fear. In our culture, in our day, we can lose sight of what a rare gift that is: to live free from fear
Noam Chomsky, Barack Obama.
I don’t remember the womb, so … my first taste of ice cream? First night in a girl’s bed: happy.
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