New Chuck's

1. Think about your life. Think about the greatest thing you have ever done, and think about the worst thing you have ever done. Try to remember what motivated you to do the former, and try to remember what motivated you to do the latter... How similar are these two motives?

I can't pinpoint either instance..or rather would not have put any ranking on anything like that to be honest. What makes something great or bad? how you feel, the magnitude of it? How other ppl see it? What if the best thing was also the worst thing? (often the case) so I'll answer that one. Its always a fine balance with extremes. This means the motive is one in the same - and all prob a little selfish at that. Indulgence and a blanket disregard for consequence. Im a mess, but at least sincere. With mega good, comes mega bad

2. Think of someone who is your friend (do not select your best friend, but make sure the person is someone you would classify as "considerably more then an acquaintance"). This friend is going to be attacked by a grizzly bear. Now this person will survive the attack; that is guaranteed. There is a 100 percent chance that your friend will live. However, the extent of his injuries is unknown; he might receive nothing but a few superficial scratches, but he also might lose a limb (or multiple limbs). He might recover completely in twenty-four hours with nothing but a great story, or he might spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Somehow you have the ability to stop this attack from happening. You can magically save your friend from the bear. But his (or her) salvation will come at a peculiar price: if you choose to stop the bear, it will always rain. For the rest of your life, wherever you go, it will be raining. Sometimes it will pour and sometimes it will drizzle-but it will never not be raining. But it won't rain over the totality of the earth, nor will the hydrological cycle de disrupted; these storm clouds will be isolated, and they will focus entirely on your specific where-abouts. You will also never see the sun again. Do you stop the bear, accepting the lifetime of rain?

Huh - interesting. So 50/50 chance of permanent damage, 100% chance at life, 100% chance of absolute misery for me. I hate to say it, but I would wait until the last minute to decide if i needed to jump in or not. I'm not going to make that risk blindly. And perhaps I'd distract the bear. Long and short, brutal as it is..I'd try and avoid the risk before going out on a limb completely for a friend. Of course I'd do it in the end tho, if things looked bad. I think. Im pretty confident I'd be able to find a win-win solution to this than accept the fate at hand. All possibilities would be exhausted before the inevitable happend...jumping in. If the bear just was fooling around I'd not do it either. Bad Megan! The rain would seriously kill me. Im sooooo dependent on being outside for sanity and enjoyment. I am very affected by the weather and might as well die if I didnt have sunshine. No joke.

3. Assume everything about your musical tastes was reversed overnight. Everything you loved, you now hate; everything you once hated, you now love. If your favorite band has always been REM, they will suddenly sound awful to you, they will become the band you dislike the most. Everything will become it's opposite, but everything will remain in balance (and the rest of your personality will remain unchanged). So-in all likelihood-you won't love music any less (or any more) then you do right now. There will still be artists you love and who make you happy; they will merely be the artists you currently find unlistenable. Now, I concede that this transformation would make you unhappy. But explain why.

It actually would make me unhappy, lol. I attach a lot of sentiment and meaning/feeling into music...so if I enjoy it now, its for a reason. Could be lyrically relevant, assciated with a particular memory or person, or makes me feel a certain way because of how I identify with it. Its impossible to make this switch and tell me I'd be the same person. If I liked different music, I'd like it for those reasons which would speak to differnt things. Im not explaining this well at all! If ur confused by this< i can try to explain it better. Ive always been a little off the beaten track with what I like..but thats ok, I like what I like for various reasons. Im hung up on the reasons pointing me to different music. I think thats whats it..the reasons would have to be different to arrive at a different destination.

4. At the age of thirty, you suffer a blow to the skull. The head trauma leave you with a rare form of partial amnesia-though otherwise fine, you're completely missing five years from your life. You have no memory of anything that happened between the ages of twenty-three and twenty-eight. That period of your life is completely gone; you have no recollection of anything that occurred during that five year gap.
You are told by friends and family that-when you were 25-you (supposedly) became close friends with someone you met on the street. You possess numerous photos of you and this person, and everyone in your life insists that you and this individual were best friends for over two years. You were (allegedly) inseparable. In face, you find several old letters and e-mails from this person that vaguely indicate you may have even shared a brief romantic relationship. But something happened between you and this individual when you were 27, and the friendship abruptly ended (and apparently-you never told anyone what caused this schism, so it remains a mystery to all). The friend moved away soon after the incident, wholly disappearing from your day-to-day life. But you have no memory of any of this. Within the context of your own mind, this person never existed. There is tangible proof that you deeply loved this friend, but-whenever you look at their photograph-all you see is a stranger.
Six weeks after your accident, you are informed this person suddenly died.
How sad do you feel?

Sad and VERY regretful...not necessarily for the person greater than condolences, but sad more because that peice in my history that i dont have and wont have ever again is gone for good. I'll never know what happened, nor make peace with it. I could never fix what was broke with that friendship and know the person I was close with during that time, no insight of what was important to me then. It would bother me a lot. Hmm..I feel this way sometimes with people who are just gone frm my life. Prob explains why I have like 400 friends on my facebook. I dont want to let peices be completely gone. Never thought of it in that context. Interesting!! Also interesting the time period to have erased. I dont remember much in that 'era' anyways. Lots to forget I suppose. I had a really hard time trying to find myself in that time. This question has left me feeling a little morose. BOOO!!!