Proust Questionnaire
Vi Oko | Chair, Strategic Planning & Advocacy
Vi Oko Responds to a Proust Questionnaire
1. What do you appreciate most in
your friends?
I appreciate the fact that my friends have strong
moral principles by which they conduct their
lives and in their relationship with others. They
are not pretentious and have no desire to give the
impression that they are superior in any way.
2. What is your idea of happiness?
Happiness is spending a special occasion, for
example, a birthday or Christmas, surrounded by
my family.
3. How do you fi nd meaning in life?
I fi nd meaning in life by trying to be the best
grandmother I can be and doing more than
my share. I pride myself in my relationship
with all my grandchildren. Although they
acknowledge that I am certainly diff erent from
most grandmothers, they can also count on me,
whether it is to pick up the telephone during the
night when they call from Spain because they
have had an upsetting experience that morning,
or to play a game of tag with the younger ones
shortly after my arrival. I believe in paying things
forward, so if I do more than my share now, it
may pay dividends later in my life when I may be
in need of some help.
4. Which talent would you most like to
have?
I am in awe of anyone who can sing or play a
musical instrument, neither of which I can do. I
have a recurring nightmare in which my teaching
assignment requires that I teach music.
5. What is your motto?
“Anything worth doing is worth doing
well.”
It has been said that if you do not have time to
do it right, you must have the time to do it over.
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Doing something well gives the doer a sense of pride,
even if no one is watching. Something as simple as
stepping back to view a freshly painted wall at 2:00
a.m., knowing that it does not need to be repainted,
can result in an overwhelming feeling of achievement.
Apparently, this attribute is consistent with my
astrological sign. ●