The question
Which quality in your friends matters most to you?Originally asked
Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire
A fixed Vanity Fair Proust Questionnaire item asked across its three-decade archive, with independent variants in friendship and profile interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Honesty. Tell me the truth, even if it hurts.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 11 December 2020 source ↗
Taking daily showers and always being there when I need them.
Their ability to make me laugh from the gut.
Kindness and laughter. If someone makes me laugh, I’m halfway in love.
The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.
Having fun with my sisters back in the day. I miss playing cards and fighting over crabs with them every weekend.
COVID-19 and how it’s affecting everyone. Also, I’m afraid of not knowing when I’ll be able to perform in front of people again and enjoy an audience.
Being too open and generous to those who don’t deserve it.
Being healthy. Sometimes we don’t know that we’re not healthy because we’re not going to the doctor—like me, when I first discovered I had diabetes years ago.
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