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.
Being at home with Brian and the dogs.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 3 April 2017 source ↗
A perfect flight to a perfect landing … with witnesses.
My family. Together in a room with a sax, a piano, and a Ping-Pong table.
Being grateful for what you have.
“Perfect happiness!”—waking in the morning to a clear & benevolent-seeming sky, a view from a window of a beautiful (if overgrown) garden, a cat purring. The excitement of rewriting the previous day’s work, & continuing on from that point energized & hopeful. For a writer, “happiness” isn’t likely to ever be “perfect”—but it is likely to be bound up with the work-in-progress. First drafts tend to be frustrating, exhausting—subsequent drafts sometimes move swiftly, even miraculously. For most adults, “Perfect is the enemy of good”—we learn to appreciate whatever measure of happiness we have, however modest.
Humor, perspective, and selective honesty.
I would be a better, faster, and more faithful writer of letters and e-mails, and returner of phone calls.
Renée Zellweger, Patti Smith, Cecile Richards, Derek Jeter, Catherine O’Hara, Tom Ford
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