Did you know? The “Confessions” was a questionnaire popular in Victorian England that the people of the day filled out to pass the time. To remind ourselves that people have truly been obsessed with engagement bait for generations, here are my answers, and I invite you to fill it out as well. (Please do send it to me, I would love to read them)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Quality you like best (Men) | Humility |
| Quality you like best (Women) | Frugality |
| Quality you like best (Generally) | Focus |
| Your chief characteristic | Inconsistency |
| Your favourite occupation | Bookworming in Foreign Languages |
| The vice you hate most | Dishonesty to oneself |
| The vice you excuse most | Joy in inappropiate situations |
| Your idea of happiness | To understand |
| Your idea of misery | To become servile through shame or illusion |
| Your aversion | Appeals to tradition, Individualism |
| Your hero | Friedrich Engels |
| Your heroine | Rosa Luxembourg, Wenge |
| The poet you like best | Emily Dickinson |
| The poem you like best | Sic transit gloria mundi |
| The prose writer you like best | Osamu Dazai, Virginia Woolf, Yu Hua |
| Your favourite flower | Peonies |
| Your favourite dish | Chinese Dumplings |
| Your maxim | Never look for your reflection in a turbluent stream |
| Your motto | Just keep going! |
| Your favourite colour | Blue |
| Your favourite colour of eyes & hair | Black or White for both |
| Your favourite names | Alex, Matthew, Lucy, Judy, and Selena |
| The character in history you most dislike | Friedrich Ebert |
Zijing (Jordan)
August 16, 2026
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