50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind – part III

It is time to chip away in answering the 50 Questions That Will Free Your Mind as they are on my bucket list. After reading Melissa’s post on how her progress of the bucket list is going I realized I have a lot of questions to answer if I want to cross this off the list.

I remember when being in my late teenage and early twenties that I have spent nights with friends pondering all those life questions. Somehow that is rarely the case anymore. It is very helpful for me to be pondering these questions and getting input from others. So feel free to answer, contradict, discuss my answers and chip in. It’s only helpful to broaden my mind and maybe yours as well. Enough said, let’s dive in….

11. You’re having lunch with three people you respect and admire. They all start criticizing a close friend of yours, not knowing she is your friend. The criticism is distasteful and unjustified. What do you do?

I tell them they should be ashamed of themselves. I strongly believe if you really have an issue with someone it should be addressed to that person and not talk bad behind their back. Well knowing that this is the toughest thing. But if you can’t say the things to the person maybe you shouldn’t say them at all.

I would probably not mention that I am friend with that person. I would defend and try to change their perspective and be more open minded and not so judgmental. I would probably also not really tell my friend what is being said. I may ask if she knows, likes these people and hint towards that they may not be as nice but I would think they need to resolve their issues on their own.

Most definitively those three people would loose some of my respect for them. And I would probably not be as outgoing and a bit more conscious when being around them. If they talk like that about others what ensures me that they don’t talk about me like that….

12. If you could offer a newborn child only one piece of advice, what would it be?

Stay curious.

Never loose the urge to explore the world, form your own opinions, be alert, see the world with untainted eyes and feel the joy when discovering, learning, seeing, tasting something new.

13. Would you break the law to save a loved one?

What a tough question. One, I really don’t want to answer. I guess it depends on circumstances. If I need to bring someone to the hospital quickly and by doing so break the traffic laws. Hell yeah. If I need to steal something in order for someone to survive. Probably. If I would need to kill someone in order of my loved one to survive… I don’t know. I am just praying I will never find out what I would do in such a situation.

14. Have you ever seen insanity where you later saw creativity?

I think we’ve all seen this in art. It seems insane and it creates beauty. I am not having a particular artist in mind but there a few, no? Maybe Van Gogh most definitely insane but what beauty was created. Are there others? I know there is an artist in a psych ward in Asia that creates amazing images. Don’t know the name. But other than art I don’t know another case…

15. What’s something you know you do differently than most people?

Mhm…. I am not sure. Mostly we do the thing we do and never really realize it is different from many others. Specially when it comes to everyday mundane task. We don’t talk so we don’t know. I have a few things I am not sure everyone else does in the same way so here is one:

• When I pick up a new magazine I have a routine to go through. I always read the editorial. Then I leave through it. If I know the magazine I most likely read a specific column. And then I most likely read the last page and check when the next issue is coming out, Then I put aside the magazine knowing what is inside and I know how much time I need to read the articles I want to read.

Now tell me, is that something you do differently?
Everything else I am currently coming up with is just things that I do that work for me or my lifestyle. I usually read in the morning and I know not many people do that but mainly because of kids and jobs. I know we have breakfast around 1-3pm on weekends while everyone else is planning for dinner already. But again it’s our life circumstances (no kids, a night owl as a husband.). Like today it’s 2.15 pm the husband just got up after going to bed at 5 am.

I have answered the first batch and second batch of these questions already if you want to check them out.

So much for today. I can not find a sufficient end to these thoughts. But I leave you with a question: Is there one of these questions you could easily answer in one sentences? Is there an answer you would disagree? Or maybe absolutely agree to? What advice would you give a new born? How would you answer #15?

This post is the third of the series to answer all 50 questions. A thing on my 100 things in 1000 days bucket list.