Would You??

[Shalot]

No -- I think it's a bad idea to tell someone about how uncomfortable you are in their presence. I think it's best to just stay the hell away from him/her and not waste too much energy with that. If they've already upset you with their actions or inconsideration or whatever (and you have such instense feelings of hatred towards them for it), chances are they don't really care about you and your feelings. Whatever they did was pretty bad and the best thing you can do is stay as far away from that person as possible.

Would you skip your grandmother's funeral if she was nothing but a toad to you when she was alive? If you go to the funeral, you have to run into your self-absorbed, psycho aunt who has also been nothing but a toad to you. Would you skip it, or go?

[adilyoussef]

Go and face myself. Whatever she might be in my life, now dead I should show some respect, if not to myself.

Would you face your own fears or just acknowledge them?

[Virgil]

That's a tough question. It's easy to say I'll face them, but there have been times where I'v been frozen in fear and not able to confront them. One doesn't know until we come face to face with it.

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[Pendragon]

I say that there are only two types of fear: that of what we do not know or cannot understand, and that of what we know all too well and refuse to acknowledge. (The philosophers on this forum would have a good round with this statement!) That being said, I think everyone sooner or later fails the test, because there is something in everyone's life that one doesn't want to face.

It's a very good question, however, and I will pass it on.

Would you face your own fears or just acknowledge them?

[WhimsySA]

Acknowledge them - that way you have more time to do the things you actually want to do!

[WhimsySA]

Oh sorry I forgot!!!

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[mono]

Hmmm, good question. I would first attempt to acknowledge them, then 'play it by ear,' so to speak. Some fears exist that I will likely never face, and would rather never try (like water), yet, even by admitting my fear, I acknowledge it; like several others, however, I have the common fear of failure - that I have both acknowledged and faced.

To the person below me: if you could save the life of only one person - an elderly but healthy individual or a baby, who would you save, and why?

[AimusSage]

Now this is a difficult question, I'd probably save the baby, despite the fact that I think they are smelly, wrinkly and all that stuff. But a baby still has a full life in which it can possibly offer a great contribution to humanity or at least be a productive member of society. The elderly is likely to die within 15 years anyway, that is, if elderly means old people that have already retired, which I think it does. Not that I want the elderly person to die, but if I had a choice, the potential value of a baby's life far exceeds that of an elderly member of society.

Of course, the baby could grow up to become a killer or thief or what not, but it's a risk I'll have to take.

What does it take to get you upset, or to rephrase, what upsets you?

[Shalot]

Mean people upset me.

Would you ever walk barefoot in a gas-station bathroom? Or in any public restroom for that matter?

[Pendragon]

I don't set foot out of the house barefoot!

Would you travel a long distace based only on the map in your head, with no back-up plan at all? We are talking a trip of, say 750 miles one way, car trip?

[Shalot]

No - absolutely not. I would never get back to where I needed to be.

Would you tell your mom that you were sorry for being an inconsiderate bratty teenager?

[mono]

I have apologized many times, but, of her other three sons (I have an older brother and a younger brother), she called me the 'most well-behaved by a small margin.' We both survived, nonetheless, and learned a lot from each other. The same story goes with my father - both very understanding, patient, warm, and wise people.

To the person below me: if you could re-experience one moment in your lifetime, would you merely desire to re-experience it, or would you alter it somehow, especially the result of the moment?

[Shalot]

To the person below me: if you could re-experience one moment in your lifetime, would you merely desire to re-experience it, or would you alter it somehow, especially the result of the moment?

I would alter it - change what I did at the moment. (I would get in the car and speed away from it in fact).

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[Pendragon]

As I once wrote in a poem "the road behind, not the road ahead, is the one forever barred to our footsteps" . But I would love to have a "second chance" on many things, which I would change if I could.

Would you consider a terse dismisal from a job as a personal affront?

[Virgil]

I don't know about an affront. I certainly want to know why. If it was expected I would just move on. Otherwise I would want answers.

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