40 questions - 2025 version
Original - https://stephango.com/40-questions
1. What did you do this year that you’d never done before?
Travel 8 countries
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions?
Forgot to make resolutions last time :|
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No
5. What cities/states/countries did you visit?
here's a map
6. What would you like to have next year that you lacked this year?
More self-confidence (again)
7. What date(s) from this year will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
21st August (mustered enough courage potion to tell someone I like them [she said no. Duh.]), 22nd August (played my first escape room! [super fun!])
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Surviving in a foreign country. I think that counts, right?
9. What was your biggest failure?
bl4ck0u7
10. What other hardships did you face?
Struggled a lot mentally (big lows)
11. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Ice-skating injury - hand is in bandages as i am typing this
12. What was the best thing you bought?
Pixel 9, Guitar
13. Whose behavior merited celebration?
All the exceedingly kind people who allowed me to stay at their places during my voyages this year. you are amazing <3
14. Whose behavior made you appalled?
the entire bureaucratic system
15. Where did most of your money go?
The bank
16. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
moving to Paris
17. What song will always remind you of this year?
Back to friends by sombr
18. Compared to this time last year, are you: happier or sadder? Thinner or fatter? Richer or poorer?
Happier; Same; Richer
19. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Reading
20. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Overthinking
21. How are you spending the holidays?
Travelling
22. Did you fall in love this year?
I think so. Or at least i think i experienced a faint semblance of it. Twice i think? :) maybe you'd also like to read this to get my perspective on the topic of love see this
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Don't think so
24. What was your favorite show?
Didn't watch a lot of shows this year. But among the ones that I did, I'd say Invincible.
25. What was the best book you read?
Poems for the Lost Because I'm Lost Too by Exurb1a
26. What was your greatest musical discovery of the year?
@thegirlwithredguitar
27. What was your favorite film?
18×2 Beyond Youthful Days
28. What was your favorite meal?
Zapiekanka - Krakow (with Tarteflambe from Alsace a verry close second)
29. What did you want and get?
TA position at the Code/Astro workshop
30. What did you want and not get?
some self-confidence? mental peace? a girlfriend? idek
31. What did you do on your birthday?
Played my first Escape room ever!
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
Paris is undoubtedly the city of love. It would definitely be a bonus if I had a partner here. Not that I can't survive alone, it would just be more satisfying that way. Fortunately, some of my lovely friends (some new, some old) keep visiting me which relly helps! This city is meant to be marvelled with companions.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion this year?
Better than before. Epecially after the Christmas trip.
34. What kept you sane?
My friends.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you admire the most?
Magnus Carlsen
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
idk
37. Who did you miss?
my parents
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Villasini; Honeyyeah
39. What valuable life lesson did you learn this year?
Normalize being a little but magic, a lot bit wild, and entirely yourself. img
also this - The greatest research skill you can have is being a nosy bitch who wants to find out. img
40. What is a quote that sums up your year?
"The people who want to stay in your life will always find a way. Life finds a way."