November 15: Writing Prompt #319-FAQ

Interview someone — a friend, another blogger, your mother, the mailman — and write a post based on their responses.

I interviewed my youngest son. He’s 12. Here’s the “transcript” of the interview:

Question 1: What’s your favorite thing to do at home? Watch TV.

Question 2: What’s your favorite thing to do outside? Play soccer.

Question 3: What’s your favorite thing to do at school? Play basketball at recess.

Question 4: What’s your favorite thing to do in summer? Hang out with family.

Question 5: What do you want to do when you grow up? Be a soccer star, a professional soccer player.

Question 6: What’s the best thing about living in the states? There’s a lot of things to do like hike in the mountains and stuff like that.

Question 7: What’s the best thing about living on an island? The freedom that you get to hang out with friends and ride on your bike all around the island by yourself. 

Question 8: What’s the most important thing you’ve learned in your 12 years? I’ve learned a lot of important things. One of them is about bullying. Also, I’ve learned about being nice, having manners, being humble, and I can’t think of the rest right now, but there’s a lot of things. 

I think it will be fun to see what his responses to these questions would be in 5 and then 10 years from now.  I know when I was little my favorite things to do were play with my friends inside, jump on the trampoline outside, play with my friends at school, and I wanted to be a dancer and singer or model when I grew up.  I think the best thing about living in the states is the same as my son’s answer, all the opportunities to do different things, and the best thing about living on an island is the laid back lifestyle and ability to save money and not have any bills to speak of. And the most important thing I’ve learned in my 40 odd years, well, that would have to be about love and how it’s really the only thing that matters in the end, love or passion for your work, love for your family and friends, knowing the love of God, sharing love every day and in every way you can, and love covering all else, sin, hatred, pain, etc….love is the great healer and where peace and understanding lives.  I think my son is on the road to learning that too….It’s one of those things you can only truly learn through time and experience, but when you learn what is really means, you know it’s enough.