What are a few of your favourite things?
Xanga Featured Question: What are a few of your favourite things?
When I come across something ‘nice’, or when someone in real life or in a book or something says something truly inspiring, I like to sit back and smile at it, as I’m sure everyone does. I suppose these are all favourite things.
My very favourite thing is a good adversarial debate. Even if I lose I’ll learn something new.
I love a really fresh morning, I like to go ringing on said fresh mornings.
I love powerful quotes that word things so much better than I ever could. When I read them or hear someone say them.
I like it when teamwork pays off.
I like writing or reading a well constructed essay that just fits together beautifully.
I love an elegant mathematical truth.
I love to learn something new.
I love a good book.
I love it when it doesn’t, for once, bother me that I’m inferior and as unoriginal as everyone else.
That’ll do for now.
Awwww…
You’re getting distressingly human. Where’s the mad mathematician we know and love gone?
The one who has beautiful mathematical truths as one of his favourite things? Looks like he’s still here..
You’re not inferior and unoriginal, sean!
They are all very well, but what about your family, your friends? They don’t feature at all in your list.
My family are not a hugely positive part of my life. My sister and I almost never get along, my father and I rarely do, my mother is generally complaining about something in an unsubstantiated way. So that’s not really a favourite thing of mine at present. It would be nice if that would change.
Friends, sure – the question said *a few*!
Fair enough