The question
What does happiness look like for you when life is going well?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
Verbatim recurring item in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire; two publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A glass of wine at sunset on Fire Island. / No homework.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 May 2011 source ↗
I think happiness is the absence of all things negative.
The very idea of perfect happiness. Who wouldn’t be happy about the proposition that happiness can be perfect?
Reading quietly, in high grass, among loved ones (who are also quietly reading). Followed by a boozy lunch.
To sit by a clear river on a warm day in early July with the smell of cut grass in the air.
Child, loss or damage thereof.
Anywhere, during the 2 to 24 hours after a successful joke.
Procrastination.
A willingness to come uptown.
Cathy Rigby. She was really good in that stage version of Peter Pan. No joke.
People who are proud of their ignorance.
Ai Weiwei, Stanley Tucci, Anjelica Huston, Bill Maher, Gina Lollobrigida, Cyndi Lauper
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