Archive for the 'The Book of Questions' Category

Satisfaction

Question: If 100 people your age were chosen at random, how many do you think you’d find live a more satisfying life than yours?
Define satisfying. Is it having everything you want, or everything you need?
At age 36, I am not at the peak of my financial status. In fact, history may go on to [...]

Wednesday, September 24th, 2008

Honesty

One more from The Book of Questions:
If your friends were willing to bluntly and honestly tell you what they really thought of you, would you want them to?
As the old saying goes, “the truth hurts”.  Nobody likes to come face to face with the monster inside.  I call it that – the monster – because [...]

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Time Is Ticking Away

Today’s look at The Book of Questions…
If a friend were almost always late, would you resent it or simply allow for it?  Can you be counted on to be on time?
I’ve had friends like this – the people who are consistently late, who can never seem to keep a schedule.  While it gets on my [...]

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

Rating Yourself

Another page from The Book of Questions…
Relative to the population at large, how do you rate your physical attractiveness?  Your Intelligence?  Your personality?
At large is one way to put it!  I’m a big guy, some might say disgustingly so.  I mean, I’m comfortable with who I am, at least for the most part, though I’ll [...]

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Far, Far away…

A couple years back, I made the following post:
Today, two friends stumbled upon an old water-stained book in the back seat of an antique car which has been rusting in our driveway. The book, a pocket-sized thing only 200 pages in length, is called The Book of Questions. In it are some 256 questions posed [...]

Friday, August 22nd, 2008