Questions to ask yourself…

Stolen from Alma

The instructions: “Don’t think, just write.”

1) What are your major interests:

My family, writing, Acting, creativity, movies, baseball, WoW.

2) How did you come to be where you are now?

Well, besides giving the birds and the bees lecture, I became to be the person I am by fighting the system. I watched everyone kiss up tp the system, and do the exact opposite. To every system there was… I was the rebel. To my parents, the schools and any other institution I could hold a grudge against, I was a angry kid that held something against all of them. There’s still a lot of that rebel in me today, whether I’m dissing the Church or a particular political party… so I’ve found a very good way of channeling that inner rebel.

3) What are the quirks that give your life character?

I’m a very passionate person. That’s a double edged sword because I express all emotions very passionately, from love to hostility. So I express them all with great passion, and vigor. I share my love and my frustration with the same passion, and with the same heightened volume. It happens, but I think you take the good with the bad.

I am very obsessed with particular subjects, but love to talk about them endlessly just cause talking about them is good… win, lose or draw. Debating them is good cause at least you are bringing up and draw light to a good subject.

I’m not the only non-religious person in my family. I’m willing to bet my life savings that my father as well as both my brothers are fully agnostic. Not an atheist like myself, just agnostic.

4) One thing about yourself you believe I (you, reader) don’t know about you.

Half way through my first year of college, Winter Semester of 96… one of my college roomies came out of the closet. Personally, how someone likes their eggs really didn’t concern me so I was one person whose opinion of him never changed by this new detail. He was still my friend, and he still is today. Unfortunately, a lot of his other friends and his family didn’t take it so well. His mother almost had a nervous breakdown and his father took all his pictures down in the house and practically disowned him. One of his friends was so offended that he tried to attack him in the hallway, and it could have gotten really ugly had I not been there to break it up. There were about ten people in the hallway when I broke the two of them apart and I turned to who was my roomie’s former best friend and said in a loud annoyed voice, “Do you have a problem?”

He paused for a moment, looked around at the witnesses not watching in the hallway before replying, “No.”

At this point, I had taken off my jacket and was in the process of rolling up one of my sleeves, “You will if you don’t take your homophobic ass and get the fuck out of my dorm…”

Upon hearing this, most of the mob that had arrived had backed up a few paces, waiting to witness a clash of the titans, because this guy wasn’t tiny… but it never happened. He took the hint and vacated the building before the Dorm monitors and proctor showed up to find out what the comotion was about. After that incident, no one in the Dorm or the Dorms around ours bugged my roomie for the rest of the semester. He’s a good person, and still one of my good friends.

5) What makes you special/different from other people?

I don’t consider myself special or different from other people. Sure I’m creative and like to write a lot of stuff and what not but I don’t let that go to my head. No matter what talents or gifts people have, I don’t think that makes any one better than another.

6) Who are your principle advisors?

Right now the only person I’m calling for advice on matters such as writing or acting is my Dad. He’s a shrewd business man, and has a really good head on his shoulders for stuff like that. He’s also got a good gut for deals and such so I trust his instinct as well.

7) What are your gifts/ How do you make people happy or how do you bring value to their lives? What do you provide?

It’s interesting that we have to provide people with something to make them happy. But to answer the question I’m working on my contribution… and hope to bring it to the people very, very soon.

8) What are you admired for?

I’m not sure if I am, you’d have to ask someone else that quesiton. I just do my own thing, and leave stuff that I have no control over (such as what others thing of me) to the people who do.

9) What are your significant failures?

There are quite a few, and I’ve got some fine ones. One might be my short lived political career on the University Student Council. That one was a fine mess…

10) What are your significant successes?

My successful graduation from University, my so far ongoing marriage and raising of two beautiful boys. The ongoing writing of my novels, and my attempt to do something better than the usual grind.

11) What do people appreciate about you?

I’m not sure. Lately, I don’t feel too appreciated.

12) In five years, where do you want to be?

Besides rich, successful, wealthy and writing/acting a lot… alive and doing well with my family will be just fine.

13) Write 4 or 5 sentences describing who you are.

I’m a creative person always looking for a new story to tell. A father who loves his boys and can’t wait to see them grow up to be little men, and a husband who tries his best to be the man he has the potential to be everday when he wakes up. A citizen who will shout from the rooftops if he sees injustice on both sides of his border because he loves his neighbor just as much as his own countrymen… and in the end we are all neighbors, because we all enhabit this small piece of rock we call home; the planet earth.

Take care, and see you around.

Peter