PROMPT: Admired Profession

What profession do you admire most and why?

I most admire Mad Saints / Crazy Sages because it requires great courage to show a path of thwarting convention, and it demonstrates a level of freedom and self-realization unseen, elsewhere.

Furthermore, unlike the other major contenders, there is no bad motive for entering the field. So, if you want to talk on the whole. Many doctors chased pitiful motives like money, prestige, or simply doing what their parents told them to — unquestioningly. Some teachers became teachers based on the June through August dead time or the love of the power to make kids eat their meat by withholding the pudding. But all crazy sages became so because someone needs to point out the world outside the cave, and they had no capacity to do otherwise.

PROMPT: Shop

If you were going to open up a shop, what would you sell?

Experiences. There are already too many stores selling geegaws and tchotchkes, and people are too good at buying and collecting them. Experiences! Now there’s a market with plenty of room for growth.

PROMPT: Most Important Thing

What is the most important thing to carry with you all the time?

Awareness. It’s the only thing I take in the shower or through the metal detectors, or to every place I go – regardless of widely varying customs, rules, and etiquette.

PROMPT: Alternate Universe

Describe your life in an alternate universe.

If there is any alternate universe, there are probably infinite alternate universes. So, I am everyone, everywhere, all at once, any how.

In my best moments, I feel like that already.

PROMPT: Habit

Describe one habit that brings you joy.

I found the one from “The Flying Nun” to be quite whimsical, and it inspired jovial moments.

PROMPT: Curiosity

What are you curious about?

Everything. But I have learned to be less obsessed with the grand metaphysical questions for which no one has any defensible answers – just rank speculation. Socrates convinced me it’s not worth worrying about abstractions while one is still struggling with fundamental questions of how to be human.

PROMPT: Blind Description

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How would you describe yourself to someone who can’t see you?

Stunningly statuesque and not to be trusted.

PROMPT: Traditions

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What traditions have you not kept that your parents had?

Religion and activities related thereto.

PROMPT: Self-Description

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How would you describe yourself to someone?

New & Improved! Now with recyclable packaging!

PROMPT: Dinosaur

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If you could bring back one dinosaur, which one would it be?

Fred. Fred the dinosaur. He was one of those long-necked, humpy-backed, vegan models.