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about myself // Proust Questionnaire 2004 |
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Dominik Krakowiak
date of birth: 3 July 1980 place of residence: Brussels, Belgium, European Union citizenship: Polish, European Union martial status: single occupation:
Prouts Questionnaire 2004:
It's not easy to write about me as I consider myself as quite a complicated person...
Fortunately I found so called Proust Questionnaire, full of intersting questions, that were given once to this famous prose writer.
To find out more about me, look up below for my answers given in July 2004 to the same questions Marcel Proust was once answering.
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| My most marked characteristic… | is sinking in the sea of my other characteristics, so the only way I can describe it, is… the thing that characterizes me the most, is my inability to define it and to define myself clear enough as well. |
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| The quality I like most in a man… | first and foremost friendship, but on the beginning it must be acceptance, understanding. Also so called feminine sensitivity. |
| The quality I like most in a woman… | am not really sure, I am always looking for her smile, because there is probably no men who can relieve a tension as good as she can with a warm smile… it’s lovely. |
| I most value in my friends… | first of all… that they exist (if they exist), their will to understand, empathy, sharing of emotions and experiences. |
| My principle defect… | and I really have few… but the one that makes me worried is: “burning out” on the way to realize my dreams. |
| My favorite occupation… | meditating, dreaming and being in love. |
| My dream of happiness… | to be as happy, to be able to split the atom of happiness around, to make others happy. |
| My greatest fear… | is that my world of children’s dreams and imagination is running away so fast, giving space to the mature reality of fighting for the position in the adult world. |
| What to my mind would be the greatest of misfortunes… | lack of love and complete lack of self-confidence. |
| If I could be someone (something) else, I would like to be… | an actor, movie director, cameraman, footballer, politician, poet, traveler, journalist… and above all fulfilled dreamer. |
| When I lie… | I am full of remorse, although sometimes I prefer to keep something that may hurt others inside of me. |
| I would like to live in… | a place full of friendly & smiling people around, where you can trust and rely on anyone and where you can be owner of your own “solitude corner”, where it is possible to hole up with your dreams & thoughts at any time. |
| My favorite color… | probably there is no favorite one and I’m happy with every that have something to say. |
| My favorite flower… | every has something inside, own “personality”. |
| My favorite bird… | one that flies away but comes back. |
| My favorite prose writers… | in the rush of sociological materials there was not much time for literary fiction and favorite authors. Although I have fondness for George Orwell, Jerzy Pilch, Paolo Coelho, Kurt Vonnegut… incomplete list of inexhaustible reader’s abilities. |
| My favorite poets… | in flushes: Boleslaw Lesmian, Ewa Lipska, e.e. cummings, Krzysztof Kamil Baczynski, Wislawa Szymborska. |
| A word that I use to often… | oh, there must be much more understated thoughts of mine. |
| My favorite heroes/heroines of fiction… | Winston Smith from “1984” |
| My favorite composers… | I won’t be unique… Frederic Chopin. I also like the way Grzegorz Turnau is decorating poetry with music. |
| My favorite painters… | well, being in fashion for impressionism… I’m not sure – I never was a big fan of art of painting. |
| My favorite heroes/heroines in real life… | I don’t really like to commend anyone, because I feel there is something we can learn from every human life, it doesn’t have to be a famous person or a star. On the other hand, people who have their great virtues, have also those characteristics that I wouldn’t like to emulate… I don’t like coping the heroes entirely, but rather arranging myself from parts of other good people. |
| My favorite heroes/heroines of history… | those good ones always had nicely hidden weaknesses and those bad ones had sad causes and reasons of their actions… abbr. |
| My favorite names… | I just have one of mine and that’s enough… probably I prefer those that makes me think of people I like… but that’s not their fault or merit. |
| I dislike the most… | physical violence, psychological abuse, treating inhumanly other creatures… simply I hate suffering. |
| Historical figures that I most despise… | but is it worth mentioning their names here – they don’t deserve it, do they? |
| Event in military history that I most admire… | every signing of respected and fair (if it is possible at all) peace treaty. |
| Reform that I admire the most… | every that gives human more liberation from society pressures and gives a chance to create oneself independently, but without harming anyone. |
| Natural gift I would most like to possess… | ability to win over the people, to win friends… that’s it! |
| The way I would like to die… | happy, loved and fulfilled, conscious of my life-mission fulfillment. |
| My present state of mind… | searching, wandering around the clouds of dreams and dreamed horizons of the matters. |
| I feel most indulgent to faults… | innocent and unintentional ones, but as my general rule I’m not the unforgiving person – so everyone is to be given a chance. |
| My motto… | still in the search for it, hope to find it one day in the flash of inspiration. |
Dominik Krakowiak - July 2004