Sunday Stealing: Thought Provoking Questions.

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 Hi! I'm your host Bev Sykes of the blog "Funny the World". . Welcome to Sunday Stealing. This feature originated and published on WTIT: The Blog. Here we will steal all types of questions from every corner of the blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the most interesting and intelligent questions. (Past hosts include: Our first - Judd Corizan, Mr. L, Kwizgiver and
Bud)  Cheers to all of us thieves!

 Thanks Bev!

Thought Provoking Questions

If you could instill one piece of advice in a newborn baby’s mind, what advice would you give?
Stay close to the God who sent you.
 
What is the most desirable trait another person can possess?
Kindness.  
 
What are you most grateful for?
My family and friends.  They make life worth living.
 
Is stealing to feed a starving child wrong?
NO and NO to the HELL NO!  Stats from international groups say that 22 thousand children starve to death every day. 
 
What do you want most?
To see more of my kids.  Be able to make a dinner for them and just share walks not daily, but a lot more often.  
 
Are you more worried about doing things right, or doing the right things?
I don't worry about this at all.  I know what the most holy people do and pattern my life, within reason, after them.
 
What has life taught you recently?
That any country can be screwed over by people with no limits to what they'll do to obtain power and wealth.  You did ask....
 
What is the one thing you would most like to change about the world?
No one could be selfish or unkind.  They would be physically unable to do it. 
 
Where do you find inspiration?
It has to be in the Life of Christ.  Well, and also Albert Schweitzer, Jimmy Carter and other kind people who took a stand against the selfishness in the world.
 
Can you describe your life in a six word sentence?
I came, saw, and conquered demons.
 
If we learn from our mistakes, why are we always so afraid to make a mistake?
It might be built into our DNA.  But.... Mistakes are usually pain inducing, unless we are narcissists and always blaming others for what we ourselves have wrought.  
Mistakes cause us to suffer loss, and to be embarrassed before our peers and family.  We feel diminished by mistakes.  So, if people didn't forgive others for making mistakes, there would be pretty much nothing to live for. 
 
What impact do you want to leave on the world?
I'm not powerful enough to leave anything of much impact.  However, like the Middlemarch widow, Dorothea Brooke, I can have a small sphere of effects.  But that's just fine. 
 
What is the most defining moment of your life thus far?
I'd have to say the shooting at our local school.  I was forever changed from a "Universe" trusting mother into someone who HAD to know where her children were every SECOND of EVERY day.  I became terrified of losing them to the fickle finger of FATE.
 
In the haste of your daily life, what are you not seeing?
There is no longer any haste in my life.
 
If life is so short, why do we do so many things we don’t like and like so many things we don’t do?
Face it, we have to make a living.  And life throws us a lot of curve balls.  We do the best we can to pick up the pieces and move on.  In our society there are not a lot of Horacio Alger stories.  I'll bet even that guy wasn't happy with ALL of his choices.
 
What lifts your spirits when life gets you down?
A bottle of Scotch.  lol.  Wait!  
This would be a sense of Humor, droll though it may be 
- and even a little acidic at times- but it's fun to laugh and joke around.
 
Have you ever regretted something you did not say or do?
Gee.  Hasn't everyone? So, the answer is, "yes".

Has your greatest fear ever come true?
Yes.
 
Why do we think of others the most when they’re gone?
Because, I think, that thread of their life has ended, and they have vanished, for what is probably forever.  And, since we really don't know what happens next for them, we can only hope that we can meet again, "in the great By and By". 
 
What is your most beloved childhood memory? 
When I was three.  We were coming into the driveway of my Grandparent's farm house, and I woke up to see the golden yellow light from the windows, and I was so happy to be with my mother and all her family again.  It's a memory that is fixed in my mind and fixed there forever.