1.) If you had the opportunity to get your message across to a large group of people, what would your message be?
"We're ALL growing apart from each other! Take your headphones out of your ears! Put your gadgets away! Make eye contact and smile at people! Have conversations outside of SMS!" Problem is, nobody would listen to me, and I'd get bored and start playing with my phone.
2.) How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
It'd be hard to gauge. I look younger than I am, but I act older than I am, in a sometimes grumpy and curmudgeonly way. Since I apparently don't know my age, I'd have to consider the possibility that I was actually a vampire. Then I would have to wonder why the sun wasn't destroying me, and why I wasn't really craving the blood of others.
3.) What would you regret not fully doing, being or having in your life?
I still wanna go to professional wrestling school.
4.) If you had to teach something, what would you teach?
Pistol Marksmanship and weapons handling fundamentals. Much like martial arts, it's not only important to know how, but also
when one should use a firearm.
5.) What activities make you lose track of time?
Reading Cracked.com articles. It can almost have that "Wikipedia effect" where you link from one to another repeatedly.
6.) Who do you sometimes compare yourself to?
Many different people. Under many difficult circumstances, I visualize people I know who have been in those situations and handled them well. I then try to handle them the way those people would, sometimes envisioning myself as them.
7.) When was your first impression of someone wrong?
I couldn't tell you my first, but it actually happens quite often. I can get along with most people, but in some circumstances, I'll meet someone who I immediately don't like, without reason. I then later find out that these people are actually really cool, and I wonder why my mind sets off bells and whistles that are completely false.
8.) What life lesson did you learn the hard way?
All preaching about adapting to circumstances aside, nobody who is a square peg should feel inadequate about not being able to fit into someone else's round hole (Get your mind out of the gutter!
).
9.) What are some of your biggest pet peeves?
Thoughtless people who don't consider or care how their actions affect others, horrible drivers, people who post 100+ pictures of themselves on Facebook that are essentially the same picture, my tiny couch that I can't completely sprawl out on, running out of coffee creamer, being late for work or class, people who smoke in their cars without the windows rolled down (You're depreciating the car!), or inside their house (That too!), and anything else that causes me to grind my teeth from stress, giving myself daily headaches.
10.) Who was the last person you said "I love you" to?
My wife last night before bed.