I’ve noticed a trend lately where people describe themselves as extroverted introverts. They love to meet new people and try new things, but what they love even more, they’ll tell you, is to simply stay home and curl up with a good book. I can understand the paradox, but I’ve seen this enough times now that I’m starting to think it’s an attempt to portray how well-rounded they are. And guess what – I’m jealous! I’m here to say I’m just a plain old extroverted extrovert. Which means not only do I love to meet and talk to new people, I’m also trying to get everyone else to talk. My introverted birds either flock toward me or… flit away…
Way back, in the times of Before (approx. 2019 A.D.), I loved being around friends and friends of friends and posing big questions and hearing people’s stories that you’d never hear unprompted. And probably like 2 years ago, I started thinking of these ramble-y, dreamy, silly, far-reaching, open-ended questions and started scribbling them down in the back of a notebook under the header “Good Party Questions.”
Here’s what I’ve got so far:
- What’s the best compliment you’ve ever received?
- If you could know the day you were going to die, would you want to know?
- If you could suddenly have a different career tomorrow, what would you want to be?
- What’s a useless, unusual, or very specific talent that you have?
- What’s your best story ever?
- What’s the best present you’ve ever received?
- What’s a quote you really like?
- What’s something you’re waiting for?
- What’s a small dream you have?
- What’s one meal you’re really good at making?
- Who taught you how to drive?
- Who was the best boss you ever had?
- What was your favourite toy as a kid?
- What’s a song or book you wish you’d written?
- What’s a word you like or love to say that people should use more?
- What’s the best birthday you ever had?
- Who’s someone you go to for advice?
- If you could wake up in any place tomorrow, anywhere in the world, where would you want to wake up?
- What’s one piece of clothing you wish you still owned?
- What’s something you’ve changed your mind about?
- What’s one thing you believe to be true that no one else agrees with you on?
- What’s the weirdest thing you’ve ever witnessed?
- Describe a moment when you felt truly alive.
- What’s something that everyone else seems to know that you didn’t learn until later in life?
- What’s a saying you try to live by?
- What’s one thing you know you’ll never do?
- What’s your favourite quality you’ve inherited from a parent?
- Describe a time when you said the thing you wanted to say in the moment you wanted to say it.
- Describe a moment when you felt truly independent.
- What’s something you collect?
- Have you ever had an encounter with the supernatural?
- What’s the weirdest physical sensation you’ve ever felt?
- What’s the best party you’ve ever been to?
- When’s a time you made a good decision?
- What’s been your favourite age to be?
- What’s something you’ve quit?
- What did your room look like as a kid?
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