Okay so I got the idea to do this by listening to the musical podcast 36 Questions. (Go listen to it, it's awesome). And I got curious about the title. Apparently, 36 Questions is a reference to "The 36 Questions That Lead to Love." It's part of an experiment type of thing to see if two strangers can fall in love with each other after asking each other these 36 questions and then staring into each others eyes for 4 minutes.
I looked up the questions and I decided I was going to answer them for this. I figured it'd be a cool way to start this misc book outside of Star Wars memes.
I'm also gonna tag some people to also answer these questions (if they wanna). I'm just putting them here: hellmiina lectiophile_wholived kmbell92 thatpunkmaximoff.
I would put it at the end, but I don't want to make this part too long and a pain to read. The 36 questions come in 3 sets, so I'm going to answer them in 3 parts. Those I've tagged are welcome to do whatever they please :)
Y'all can also pick and choose what questions you want to answer.
Set I:
1. Given the choice of anyone in the world, whom would you want to have as a dinner guest?
Honestly, I hate having dinner with people because I'm a really picky eater and a really fast eater and I feel like everyone is constantly judging me. Saying that, I think I would go with my Mommom. She died back in 2017, but she was the first person to pop into my mind. And I definitely wouldn't want to have dinner with some celebrity cause I feel like it would be so awkward.
2. Would you like to be famous? In what way?
Yes and no. I want to be famous in the romanticized way of being famous. Of being famous because of all these amazing movie/television roles, or for writing, or directing and getting to go to all these fancy red carpets and being an inspiration to young girls everywhere. And all that. I would hate the paparazzi and the cancel culture and the complete and utter lack of privacy. Because we honestly treat celebrities like they're on this sort of pedestal but treat them like they're our property at the same time. (Also the money wouldn't hurt)
3. Before making a telephone call, do you ever rehearse what you're going to say? Why?
I rarely ever make phone calls. If I'm ever talking to someone on the phone it's because they called me first so I had no reason to rehearse 'cause I didn't know it was going to happen. But I can imagine once I have to start making doctors appointments and what not for myself (curse adulthood), I'll definitely write down what I'm going to say first so I don't look like a complete idiot.
4. What would constitute a perfect day for you?
Being happy, like the entire day. Without a doubt, I always end up in some sort of mood at a certain point during the day and sometimes it can ruin the rest of it for me. It would also be a day that I not only wake up, but get out of bed before 11am. It would be a nice day that doesn't go by in an instant. Like today, for example, I woke up at 9am, next thing I know it's 7pm and I've done nothing. I fucking hate these days. I like days where I wake up at 8am and it feels like the entire day has gone by and it's only 11am. Those are the absolute best.
5. When did you last sing to yourself? To someone else?
Myself: Sometime July ---- Sang Natalie Cook to myself the entire way home from work.
Someone Else: Same day ---- Sang Natalie Cook while my mom and I went for a drive.
6. If you were able to live to the age of 90 and retain either the mind or body of a 30-year-old for the last 60 years of your life, which would you want?
The mind. 100% the mind. There are things available to help the body. But I'm always so scared of getting something like dementia or alzheimers or any other disease and just completely losing myself. I would hate it so much and I wouldn't even know I hate it cause I wouldn't be myself anymore. God that's one of my worst fears.
7. Do you have a secret hunch about how you will die?
I hope I never die. I hope I can discover the secret to immortal life and live forever. But I know that's not going to happen. I have no idea how I'll die, but I hope it's in my sleep. I don't want to be aware of what's happening or in the hospital or something. I want to go to sleep one day—a normal day—and just never wake up. I would be so terrified if I knew what was going on and I don't want to experience that fear more than I already do now.
8. Name three things you and your partner appear to have in common.
So you're supposed to answer these with someone, but all well. So I'm just going to come up with things I have in common with the people I tagged lol.
1. Wattpad
2. Read and/or write fanfiction
3. Harry Potter
That should be accurate to all four of the people I tagged lol
9. For what in your life do you feel most grateful?
Right now, at the ripe age of 18, I am most grateful for my parents and my family and everything they've been able to do for me.
10. If you could change anything about the way you were raised, what would it be?
I'm still being raised honestly. But I don't think I would change anything. I think my parents did a damn good job. Everything that's wrong with me (physically and mentally) I don't think has anything to do with how they raised me. That's all nature's fault, not nurture's.
11. Take four minutes and tell your partner your life story in as much detail as possible.
Four minutes on the clock, let's go:
Okay, so we're flashing back to August of 2017. Me, my mom, and my sister are in Colorado up in the Rockies. We're staying at a ranch that my mom's side of the family owns/founded a couple miles outside Nederland. Whenever we go up there we stay in what's called "The Big House." It's a two story log cabin from the 1800s built by Lake Phylis (pretty sure). There are so many ghosts stories about that house. When I was younger, I don't think they bothered me as much but as I got older I started to get scared.
One night, I go up to bed early while my mom and sister stay down by the fire. I watch a couple of episodes of Supernatural on my phone and eventually fall asleep. I had been doing that every night to help me fall asleep and take my mind of the scary, dark, old house. Unfortunately that night I woke up in the middle of it. It's dark, I'm okay for a little bit but I can't fall back asleep.
My mind eventually starts coming up with a bunch of different images. There's something in the mirror. That light on the ceiling is actually a man or a ghost or a demon or something. I don't know, but I can see it out of the corner of my eye and it stands out against the pitch black room. I just kept working myself up more and more that I grab my phone and I call my mom. (Her room was on the other side of the house and there was no way in hell that I was going to walk across the house in the middle of the fucking night.)
She doesn't pick up—she's asleep, obviously. So I put my phone down, turn around so my back is toward the wall and I'm facing my sisters bed. I can see the light fixture clear as day and I can't see the mirror. Everything is fine. Then I close my eyes and an image pops into my head (cause my brain hates me). It's a creature (demon, ghost, whatever) and it's staring at me with empty eyes from between the two beds. It had long, gangly, black hair and it's just staring.
I open my eyes. Nothing there. Obviously.
But every time I close them, it's there, I swear to God it's there. But I need to sleep so I close my eyes and hope for the best. Then the worst thing in the world happens. Like the thing could be real and that might have been a better occurrence than this.
The door opens. The door fucking opens.
The house is old. The door is old. I can clearly hear it creak open and my heart just starts racing. I clench my eyes and curl up but I don't hear anything else. No footsteps or floorboards creaking. Just the door open and then nothing.
So I have to open my eyes. I have to. Cause I latched the door shut, it wouldn't just open. Something opened it.
I open my eyes, and panic fills me. I scream, I'm terrified, I start crying and sobbing. There was something standing over my bed.
Of course, it wasn't a demon or anything. Of course not, they can't be real. It was my mom. Who decided to go and check on her daughter after getting a call from her in the middle of the night. But Jesus fucking Christ I thought I was going to die.
So I definitely went over 4 minutes. It was more like 10-15 but I don't care. Fuck the rules.
EDIT: I'm an idiot it says your life story. Not just a story. But I'm too lazy to rewrite lol. So you get to deal with a stupid story from when I was 15. You can just write a story or your whole life one. Whatever you're comfortable with.
12. If you could wake up tomorrow having gained any one quality or ability, what would it be?
I would definitely love the ability to see what happens after we die. I would love to see which religion was correct, if any (God please let one religion be correct, but not a reincarnation one, an afterlife one). And if no religion and death is just what life was like before we were born then I want the ability to either make everyone (including myself) immortal or have the ability to create an afterlife.
So that's the end of Set I, Set II and III to come :)