My friend and I recently went to Chipotle for dinner. Chipotle lately has been printing short short stories on their cups. This time, my cup held the 2 Minute Personality Test by Jonathan Safran Foer, which is a series of questions that I found interesting.

Here are my answers:

1.What was the kindest thing you almost did?

I saw a shopping cart in the exact middle of the parking lot. I intended to put it away so the employees didn’t have to. However, by the time I had parked, I had completely forgot about it. Until now, obviously.

2. Is your fear of Insomnia stronger than your fear of what awoke you?

No. But I have been afraid to sleep because of nightmares.

3. Are bonsai cruel?

We are talking about the tree, right? No, I do not think they’re cruel. I think they are amazing.

4. Do you love what you love, or just the feeling?

Both, I guess. For example, I love writing for writing’s sake and for the euphoria I get when I write.

5. Your earliest memories: do you look through your young eyes or look at your young self?

I look at my memories with my young eyes. And for some reason, these memories are all sort of yellowish.

6. Which feels worse: to know that there are people who do more with less talent or there are people with more talent?

The first, most definitely.

7. Do you walk on moving walkways?

I think I’m rare in the fact that I prefer to actually stay still. It’s slower, but more peaceful. But that doesn’t mean that I haven’t walked on them.

8. Should it make  any difference that you knew it was wrong as you did it?

Yes.

9. Would you trade actual intelligence for the perception of being smarter?

Most definitely not. Since I wore glasses in middle school, I got so tired of people assuming that I was smarter than I felt I was.

10. Why does it bother you when someone at the next table is having a conversation on a cell phone.

It is when they’re texting in the company of someone else that I get bothered. When they’re having a conversation on the phone, most of the time I’m too focused on eavesdropping to be bothered by it.

11. How many years of your life would you trade for the greatest month in your life?

None. I want to live every year of my life and remember it, no matter how bad, good, or disappointing they are.

12. What would you tell your father, if it were possible.

Sometimes it feels like I don’t appreciate you enough, but I completely, utterly love you.

13. Which is changing faster: your body or your mind?

My mind, hopefully.

14. It is cruel to tell an old person his/her prognosis?

No. I think its cruel to not tell them.

15. Are you in any way angry at your phone?

Not directly. I’m more annoyed at how reliant I am on it.

16. When you pass a storefront, do you look at what’s inside, your reflection, or neither?

What’s inside.

17. Is there anything you would die for if no one could ever know you died for it?

The earth, maybe? I would sooner die for a person or persons than a thing.

18. If you could be assured that money wouldn’t make you any small bit happier, would you still want more money?

I just want enough money so I can support myself and my family in the future.

19. What has irrevocably been spoiled for you?

Coconut. I choked on it when I was little and I haven’t like it since.

20. If your deepest secret became public, would you be forgiven?

I’m not even sure what my deepest secret is, but I hope it would.

21. Is your best friend your kindest friend?

No, but she is one of the kindest I know.

22. Is it in any way cruel to give a dog a name?

I don’t think so, but then again that hadn’t even occurred to me.

23. Is there anything you need to confess?

I’m a little nuts. And so are my friends and some members of my family. That’s why I picked them. Or they picked me. Either one.

24. You know it’s a “murder of crows” and a “wake of buzzards” but it’s a what of ravens, again?

No idea. But I can’t help thinking of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.”

25. What is it about death that you are afraid of?

The same reason why I’m afraid of darkness: the unknown.

26. How does it make you feel to know that it is an “unkindness of ravens?”

Unperturbed, but gradually getting curious about the phrase.