24/7: For continuity's sake, I will publish lists of at least twenty items for the seventh of each month, material enough to muse on twenty-four seven. This month is a game of twenty questions, selected from "The Book of Questions," by Gregory Stock. Before opening conversations with companions or diving into devotions of self-reflection, allow the brief introduction to effectively add a certain depth and purpose to the following:
1) If you were to die this evening with no opportunity to communicate with anyone, what would you most regret not having told someone? Why haven't you told them yet?
2) Do you think that the world will be a better or worse place 100 years from now?
3) Would you rather be a member of a world championship sports team or be the champion of an individual sport? Which sport would you choose?
4) What would constitute a "perfect" evening for you?
5) Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life?
6) Do you feel you have enough time? If not, what would give you that feeling? How much has your attitude about time change since you've aged?
7) Whom do you admire most? In what way does that person inspire you?
8) When you tell a story, do you often exaggerate or embellish it? If so, why?
9) Does living as though you control your own destiny lead to a more powerful life?
10) Do you feel ill at ease going alone to either dinner or a movie? What about going on a vacation by yourself?
11) Where would you choose to be if you could place yourself anywhere on a scale from one to ten, where one is hardship, struggle, and extraordinary accomplishment and ten is comfort, peace of mind, and no accomplishment. Why? Where are you now?
12) What are your most compulsive habits? Do you regularly struggle to break these habits?
13) Do your comments and suggestions influence other people much? How could you present your ideas so that they would have more impact?
14) If you could take a one-month trip anywhere in the world and money were not a consideration, where would you go and what would you do?
15) What kind of people do you like to spend time with? What do such people bring out in you that others do not? What can people learn about you by looking at your friends?
16) Who is the most important person in your life? What could you do to improve the relationship? Will you ever do it?
17) What important decision in your professional life have you based largely upon your intuitive feelings? What about in your personal life?
18) Can you be counted on to do what you say you'll do? What does it take for you to trust someone?
19) What are you looking for when you converse with people? What kinds of things do you usually discuss? Are there other things that would be more interesting to you?
20) If you were guaranteed honest responses to any three questions,
who would you question and what would you ask?
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