35 posts tagged “qotd”

There's a chill in the air. Show us your favorite coat.
Submitted by jacolily.

Winter coat

Do you believe that honesty is the best policy?

Hell yeah I do.
You shouldn't bs people.

But, I also believe that sometimes perhaps it's better to bend the truth a little not to hurt someone.
For example:
If a friend asked me "Do I look fat in this?" I would never ever say yes (even if I, against all odds, thought so).

But if it doesn't hurt anyone, then yeah...honesty is the best policy.

Which do you prefer? City life or country living?

City life for sure.
It's nice being on the country side for like a day or two, after that I get relentlessly bored. I like it when there is life and movement and lots of people around me. Chaos is my element, I thrive under messy circumstances. Cities are chaotic, but in a good way, I feel suffocated when there's no life around except the occasional squirrel (^ o ^)...

In-the-city

Granted we don't really have a lot of big cities in Sweden. I mean our capital city Stockholm (with surrounding areas) has only 2 million inhabitants (out of like 10 millions in all of Sweden)...

...but still there's a huge difference between the smaller cities and the biggest ones. So I think I can still safely say that I prefer city life.

There is culture in cities, and loads of different people to look at (yeah, I like to just look at people, I don't care how strange that sounds) and room for a variety of characters. You're allowed to stand out in a city, in the country people would look funny at you if you were too different.

Ah...I dream of living in Paris and Tokyo, London and New York...to see the different cultures that mix in these places and become a better person from the experience.

Ki o tsukete mina-san! (^ _ ^) Matane!

If you were going to write a book, what would you write about?

I am writing a book, even though I don't really like saying it like that (I prefer to say that I'm writing a story) because it sounds like I think I'm so good that it can be called a book. See in my world only real writers can be said to be writing books, but then again that might also be the typical Swedish "don't think you're anything special" mentality that's talking.

But anyway, I'm getting of track.
What I was going to say is that what I would write/am writing about is:
Just life. Life with all of it's dark and shitty moments as well as the happy and bright ones. I want to write about love and betrayal, sorrows and how to overcome them with help of the people around you and how we walk through the mist and come out on the other side a better person.
And I want to do it in a way people can relate to. There is honestly no part of me that wants to write the complicated kind of books that only a few can understand. I want to write for the people, I am aware of how silly it sounds but that doesn't change the fact that it's true. If I can make a single person feel something when reading what I wrote, that's all I could ever wish for.

Ah...that's all I think. For now at least.

Ki o tsukete mina-san! (^ _ ^) Matane!

What's the biggest frustration in your life right now?

That I have no boyfriend. I feel like I'm trying as hard as I can, but that it's changing nothing. Nothing. The winter is coming, with it cold and darkness...which I kind of like (because I want it a little to cold rather than a little to warm, you got to know this when I bitched about it being to hot this summer) but that also tend to make me feel lonely and a little desperate. Some of you, the ones that's been with me for a long time, know that some periods during the year does this to me... 

It's not a new problem I know, but what can I say...I guess I'm just not that original after all (at least not when it comes to certain things). And until I can figure it out, I suppose it will always be there too.

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On a scale of 1 to 10, how well do you sing?

1. Or -10 if I can say that. I strongly suspect that I'm almost completely tone-deaf.

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Ha ha, this is why I've never enjoyed (or even participated in) karaoke. Yeah it's that bad guys, honestly.
So my rule is this: I never sing sober, except "Happy Birthday" at B-day parties. And I hold true to this rule too, almost 100% of the time.

I'm strange, I know...Think a little about that ^o^..

Oyasuminasai mina-san (^ _ ^) Matane

Did you ever run away from home?

Nope. Nor did I get lost in the supermarket or leave for a friends house without telling my parents (the latter might be in the "run away" category though..)..or anything in that would even remotely fit into this group actually.

I have always been a very cautious person, never doing things that would put me at risk (which running away from home would, hence: I never did). In fact V. (the guy from my class that gave me my very first kiss) used to tease me (in a nice way though) saying that I'm afraid of everything.
One night walking home from being out (he followed me because I don't care to walk home) I told him that I like walking in the dark, but then I don't dare to because there's so much that can happen. Then he laughed and said just this..that I'm scared of everything..My reply to him was that No, I'm not afraid of everything, just everything that's dangerous. He he...I'm quite happy with that reply actually.

Anyways, I'm spacing out. Gome ne about that guys.
I just wanted to make a point and I guess I exaggerated a bit. But you know that I do that's. It's why you keep coming here, ne?

Ki o tsukete mina-san! (^ _ ^) Matane!

If you could have personally witnessed one event in history, which one would you want to have seen?

Ahhh...that's a tough one.
There's a lot I would have liked to see (a lot)...if I could've watch it from a safe distance.

Thermopylae

But one (if I had to pick one right now) thing would be:
The Battle of Thermopylae.
It was fought in 480 BC between the Greek (lead by the city-state Sparta) and the Persians (commanded by Xerxes). In short the Greeks held the invadors at bay in the small pass of Thermopylae for 3 days before the Persian army managed to pass through (after huge number of people had died on the battlefield).

Perhaps this is a macabre event to want to have witnessed (you're all free to think of me as perfectly crazy from this point on), but I think it would be something grand, yet horrifying, about seeing something like this.

It was a different time, a different way of life, and I have a fascination with that time. The Persian wars, the wars of the Greek city-states, Alexander the Great and his father Philip of Macedonia, Ceasar and Cleopatra...it all happened in a time that none of us could ever imagine. A more dangerous time in many ways, but one that I would have loved to see (preferably - as I said before - watching safely from like a mountain or something)...

...And that was all I guess.

Ki o tsukete mina-san! (^ _ ^) Matane!

Are you more attracted to people whose personalities are similar or different to yours?

Well that depends I guess...

If we talk attracted as in I want to be friends with them I suppose I'm more drawn towards people that's similar to me. I mean not exactly like me of course (that's for one impossible and if it wasn't I don't think I could live with being friends with "myself"...that would just be too much), but basically the same kind of person. Like Michaela for example (my best friend), I'm not sure two people can be a lot more like each other than we are; and that works very well for us. Same goes for Em. She and I aren't by a long shot as much the same and me and Michaela, but we're alike when it comes to quite a lot...

On the other hand if we talk attracted attracted...in the "I want to date you" way I think perhaps I would need someone that's not so much like me (of course this is difficult to know since I've never actually dated anyone), someone that complemented me more, give me what I don't have..See I think that in a relationship you should be able to give each other most of what you need (while having time for friends and such of course, I will never ever forget my friends for a guy) in a way you might not need in a friendship. I'm not the kind of girl that believes that you can't live without a guy in your life, that it's somehow embarrassing to be single, but I would want the person that I date to make me feel like my life is complete with him, to have the qualities that I don't and for that reason make some kind of balance for me (and feel that I do the same for him of course)...Your friends don't need to give you that. I seek support in my friends, company when I'm lonely and someone to share the good times with, but I would never ask them to bring balance to my life. I think that you give your heart to someone your in a relationship with in a completely different way than you do to your friends (naturally, since you don't have the same feelings towards them), and so they need to be a different person than the people that you call your friends.

*Smiles* I'm a dreamer, a hopeless romantic...I know (shhh...don't tell anyone). But I like it that way.

Oyasuminasai mina-san

How many times did you move growing up? How did moving (or staying put) impact your childhood?

None.
I lived in the same city, the same neighbourhood, the same house for 19 years.

It made me feel secure and 100% at home, like whatever happened in the world there was one thing that was sure, one thing that would always be there no matter what. The house was (still is, I just don't live there anymore) ours in ever sense of the meaning of the word (my mothers grandfather built it so it's truly a family house, if I have anything to say about it no one outside my family - relatives included - will ever live in it).

Not many people did move around among the ones I knew, but I always thought that it seemed scary and like a lot of work..and I was really happy that I never had to do that.

My childhood was perfect in every way. I never missed anything (even though we supposedly didn't have a whole lot of money when I was young I never knew this) and I never worried. If I ever decide to have children (I'm still on the fence with this question, right now I don't want any children...but I'm young - and without a boyfriend - so I have time to think..) I want them to have all that I had, including the security of knowing that they won't get pulled up and moved away from everything they know.

Oooo...it got very serious all of a sudden. He he, but anyway..I have to go now.

Ki o tsukete mina-san! (^ - ^) Yoi ichinichi o!