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.
Playing with a dog. And we’re both drunk.
The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 10 August 2017 source ↗
Floating in a river full of fat trout.
Playing tennis, competing, winning, but also being at home in Spain, in Majorca, with my friends and family.
I’ve discovered that I have no happiness other than my dogs’. If they’re happy, I’m happy. That sounds like something my mother used to say about her children, which I always thought was slightly manipulative and way overstated. I was wrong.
Watching my girls laugh together. It is more short-lived than I’d like, but it does happen!
Over a YouTube clip about animals. "Laboratory animals see sunlight for the first time", or "elephant mourns his best friend the goat". I watch something like that every day and I'm always in pieces.
I can't remember a time when I was happier than now, to be honest – though that's always been the case.
It’s hard to narrow it down, because I want them to have a bit of everything—humor, kindness, integrity, intelligence, tolerance (they need lots of that). But if I had to choose just one it would probably be loyalty.
A dog. (I don't have one because we're back and forth over the Atlantic and it would be cruel to leave it.)
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