I saw a TikTok video that went through these seven questions to get to know someone better, and it inspired me to answer these questions myself in a blog post to share more about myself with everyone.
I’d also love for you to choose one of the seven questions to answer in the comments section, or treat it like a tag and answer all seven questions on your platform.
1. What rebellious things did you do as a teenager?
- I wear a miniskirt. (Like a few times.)
- There are times when I feel real To be trendy, I also wore dark lipstick.
- I was terrible at math and science, and I’m sure my father was disappointed in my math and science prowess.
- I didn’t get into any Ivy League schools – hey, look, this is considered the second-to-last worst college for Asian Americans.
- In high school, I skipped study hall and left campus to read books about the occult in the public library.
I know, I know, how pathetic and boring. I’m racking my brain trying to find something cool or actually terrible to say here. sigh.
2. What do you want to do when you grow up?
I was one of those kids who had a lot of moving goals, so it depends on what year and stage of life you ask this question. In sixth grade, I wanted to be a lawyer working in the public interest or nonprofit sector. In high school I wanted to be an artist. As an undergrad, I wanted to get an MFA and become a novelist.
3. Tell me about your first car.
Teddy Taurus. The name of the car is Teddy Taurus. It was a silver Ford Taurus. I forget what year it was, but it was a used car, so it was a few years earlier than the year I bought it, probably around 1999?
4. How did you meet your spouse?
Twenty-one years ago, I traveled to New York for a poetry slam and stayed with one of my sorority sisters. Her cousin James was also there. That night, James and I had a heated debate about cross-strait geopolitics and then religion.
We started dating soon after. When I left New York and came to California for law school, James quit his job as a day trader at a hedge fund and followed me to the Bay Area. After I graduated from law school, we got married.
5. What dream have you given up on?
Become a biological mother. As a girl, I never dreamed of a big wedding or wanted to have fancy things, never made a vision board of a picket fence house, and I will point out that when it came to a career or career goals, I had no ” Dream,” I just did. I decide what I want to achieve, then create a step-by-step plan to achieve it, and then go for it. If I fail, I do a postmortem and decide if I want to try again or pivot, and then I do that.
But I did have daydreams about being a mother. I had a strange sense of confidence that I would make a great mother. When I’m faced with a parenting situation, I often think about how I would handle the situation as a parent.
If it were 100% up to me, I would foster and/or foster. I even had daydreams about raising and adopting children. But unfortunately, neither James nor the in-laws support this. Since this required a unanimous group decision, I was at a numerical disadvantage.
6.What always brings you happiness?
Many things bring me joy! In fact, almost anything that is universally considered interesting brings me joy. Good food. nature. Kittens and puppies. The smell of old books. rain. Trinkets and gadgets. fixed. Friends and family. Pamper yourself at the spa. massage. bubble bath. Good deeds.
7. What legacy do you hope to leave behind?
Most people want the hard work they do while they are alive to have a meaningful and positive impact on future generations. I am no exception. I hope that what I have devoted my life to will be available to future generations and that someone will still find it useful and beneficial long after I am gone.
I also hope that helps soften it.
The older generation generally complains that the younger generation is too weak, but in my opinion, the younger generation being soft means that the older generation has done something right. So I hope that the work I do makes life easier for future generations, that I help them become gentler. Softness is not a bad thing. Let’s not confuse softness with breakage.
Lift when climbing. I didn’t figure out that line. I heard it somewhere and it made a deep impression. This is a good motto. That’s the legacy I hope I’ll leave behind—that wherever I gain access, I’ll make sure that others who want that access also get it. Don’t we all love companies with top executives? Yes, so lift when climbing.
I want to get to know you better! Choose one of the seven questions to answer in the comments section below. Or answer all seven. Or add this tag on your own platform and give us a link to the content!