Does this qualify as a meme?
Jan. 18th, 2010 01:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sherryillkHaha, I think this actually does represent me rather well.
Taken from Joe Mallozzi's latest blog entry:
You are transporting five animals, a lion, a monkey, a sheep, a cow, and a horse, and you have to drop them off one at a time along the route. In what order would you drop them off?
I chose:
1. Monkey -- I don't like them and their chittery-chattery, playful antics would annoy the hell out of me so it would be the first to go.
2. Cow -- Despite being an ox myself, I find cows rather boorish creatures, rather stubborn and heavy so it would be a pain to drag for around a long period of time.
3. Sheep -- I have no particular fondness for sheep but definitely some for the horse and lion so this would just fall by the wayside and be left off here for no other reason than I could bear to give it up but not the others.
4. Horse -- Push comes to shove, I could have ridden the horse up to this point. But the lion is cooler.
5. Lion -- Like I said, the lion is the coolest of the bunch! Why would I ever get rid of it? Only because I had to. :(
Apparently, the order in which you drop off each animal tells you how important certain aspects of life are to you. So what are they?
Anyway, the thing of least importance to me, as represented by the monkey, are friends! I'm a loner, I find interacting with people in real life rather displeasing and I'm not very sociable so I'm not very surprised at this. I like spending time alone, by myself with my thoughts and not have to worry about other people while I'm doing so.
Next is the cow which represents money. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not one of those people who hordes money. That isn't to say I don't like money -- I certainly do but I'm not the type to be in the perpetual state of acquiring more and more money for the sake of having more and more money.
Third is the sheep, the thing I got rid of because of no other reason than it was last on the totem pole... That ironically, is love. I'm not quite sure if this is apt, but I can't say I desperately want love either. It's nice and all but I've long thought that one doesn't need love in their lives to be content. Which is ironic since I'm a big lover of romance novels and slash, which is almost always all about the love.
Then we have the horse who represents business. In this case, I have no idea. What sort of business? Shouldn't this be related to money? But me getting rid of it second to last suggests I put somewhat of a high value on business in my life. *shrugs* Maybe I do and I just haven't gotten there yet?
And apparently, the most important thing in my life, the thing I would least be willing to part with is my pride as represented by the lion. All I say about that is dead on. Absolutely dead on. And that's all I'll say because to expound on it further would only force me to get into particulars about a side of me that I find rather negative and generally don't like to acknowledge. But that doesn't mean I'm not aware of it nonetheless (such is the way about faults, isn't it?).
So that's me. I think if I had known what each animal represented beforehand, I might have come up with a slightly different ordering -- business being one of those things I would probably chuck out first. But I've always had a thing for horses (even if Lucy on Scrubs has made me slightly self-conscious of it) so I would never have gotten rid of it early had I not known what it was. Plus, I think friends might be a bit more important than money... But that might just be a socially conditioned response.
Still, it was an amusing little exercise. Not quite enlightening (or maybe it was?) but fun.
Taken from Joe Mallozzi's latest blog entry:
You are transporting five animals, a lion, a monkey, a sheep, a cow, and a horse, and you have to drop them off one at a time along the route. In what order would you drop them off?
I chose:
1. Monkey -- I don't like them and their chittery-chattery, playful antics would annoy the hell out of me so it would be the first to go.
2. Cow -- Despite being an ox myself, I find cows rather boorish creatures, rather stubborn and heavy so it would be a pain to drag for around a long period of time.
3. Sheep -- I have no particular fondness for sheep but definitely some for the horse and lion so this would just fall by the wayside and be left off here for no other reason than I could bear to give it up but not the others.
4. Horse -- Push comes to shove, I could have ridden the horse up to this point. But the lion is cooler.
5. Lion -- Like I said, the lion is the coolest of the bunch! Why would I ever get rid of it? Only because I had to. :(
Apparently, the order in which you drop off each animal tells you how important certain aspects of life are to you. So what are they?
Anyway, the thing of least importance to me, as represented by the monkey, are friends! I'm a loner, I find interacting with people in real life rather displeasing and I'm not very sociable so I'm not very surprised at this. I like spending time alone, by myself with my thoughts and not have to worry about other people while I'm doing so.
Next is the cow which represents money. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not one of those people who hordes money. That isn't to say I don't like money -- I certainly do but I'm not the type to be in the perpetual state of acquiring more and more money for the sake of having more and more money.
Third is the sheep, the thing I got rid of because of no other reason than it was last on the totem pole... That ironically, is love. I'm not quite sure if this is apt, but I can't say I desperately want love either. It's nice and all but I've long thought that one doesn't need love in their lives to be content. Which is ironic since I'm a big lover of romance novels and slash, which is almost always all about the love.
Then we have the horse who represents business. In this case, I have no idea. What sort of business? Shouldn't this be related to money? But me getting rid of it second to last suggests I put somewhat of a high value on business in my life. *shrugs* Maybe I do and I just haven't gotten there yet?
And apparently, the most important thing in my life, the thing I would least be willing to part with is my pride as represented by the lion. All I say about that is dead on. Absolutely dead on. And that's all I'll say because to expound on it further would only force me to get into particulars about a side of me that I find rather negative and generally don't like to acknowledge. But that doesn't mean I'm not aware of it nonetheless (such is the way about faults, isn't it?).
So that's me. I think if I had known what each animal represented beforehand, I might have come up with a slightly different ordering -- business being one of those things I would probably chuck out first. But I've always had a thing for horses (even if Lucy on Scrubs has made me slightly self-conscious of it) so I would never have gotten rid of it early had I not known what it was. Plus, I think friends might be a bit more important than money... But that might just be a socially conditioned response.
Still, it was an amusing little exercise. Not quite enlightening (or maybe it was?) but fun.
