---------------------------------------- Five Questions - April 2021 March 30th, 2021 ---------------------------------------- Taken from: gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/~christina/index.gmi 1. Can you miss what you never had? Yes. That's close to the definition of regret. I often miss things I didn't do when I had the opportunity. Regret is sometimes what drives me to not miss other opportunities in the present. 2. Have you reinvented yourself after the end of a long personal (cohabiting) relationship? If not, do you know someone who has? Describe the steps of reinvention. Yes. Remembering what made me happy prior to the relationship and reconnecting with those parts of my life. Getting in touch with old friends and relatives I may have lost touch with--especially ones I was close to in childhood. I guess it's more of a remembering who I am as an individual, rather than a reinvention. 3. I most look forward to book-trawling and geocaching with new local (and old local, like Washington State!) friends. What do you most look forward to doing when restrictions end? Book-trawling and geocaching sounds like fun. I'm most looking forward to visiting friends and relatives I hadn't seen since before the pandemic began. 4. What's the best surprise you received in March 2021? After unsuccessfully searching for a hard-to-find out-of-print book in the usual online places, I tracked down the author and bought it directly. He mailed it to me (along with some DVDs he produced) and getting it in the mail was the highlight of March 2021. 5. How many interests (i.e. passions, activities, hobbies, pursuits) at minimum should a person have to be interesting? What percentage of shared interests renders a person appealing or intriguing to you? "Be curious, not judgmental." - Walt Whitman What is most interesting to me is not the specific interests but the shared curiosity in each other's interests. Curiosity drives my interest in other people and what keeps someone close is their reciprocated curiosity in me.