Survey Inspired by My Instagram Feed

[joybucket]

I thought this might be a fun idea for a survey. These questions are all inspired by posts in my Instagram feed today. Have fun!

1. A lot of my friends are unfollowing or unfriending those who agree with a different political party than them. Have you ever unfollowed or unfriended anyone over politics? Why or why not? 
2. Do you trust in God? Why or why not? 
3. What's the dumbest way you've been injured? 
4. Do you believe fibromyalgia is a real disease? Why or why not? 
5. Has anyone in your family been diabetic? 
6. When was the last time you can remember falling down the stairs, and what happened? Were you alone or was it in public? Share details! 
7. Do you wear earmuffs during the colder months? 
8. Do you know anyone who has the medical condition POTS? 
9. Do you know what the medical condition POTS is? 
10. Do you experience frequent tachycardia? 
11. Have you been ignoring someone who has been trying to reach out to you? If so, why? 
12. Do you agree or disagree with this quote: The only constant variable in my life is pain and suffering. 
13. If you celebrate Thanksgiving, have you ever been the one to cook the turkey? 🦃 
14. Do you pray every day? 🙏 Why or why not? 
15. Do you know anyone who has lupus? 
16. List three emotions you've experienced in the past 24 hours. 
17. When was the last time you went to Starbucks? 
18. When was the last time you baked scones? 
19. Do you decorate your home for fall? 🍁 
20. Do you prefer ebooks or actual books? 📕 
21. What does the last mug you drank out of look like? 
22. What is one thing you love about getting older? 
23. Do you post on Instagram frequently? 
24. How many Instagram accounts do you have? 
25. What is your Instagram username (if you wish to share)? 

I hope you have a wonderful day! 💃 

[chasingghosts]

1. A lot of my friends are unfollowing or unfriending those who agree with a different political party than them. Have you ever unfollowed or unfriended anyone over politics? Why or why not?

- Not that I remember. But I would. I keep the circle of people who have access to me pretty curated. I don't have time for bullshit, political or otherwise.

2. Do you trust in God? Why or why not?
- I don't, because I don't think God has control over things that happen. I see religion's value in providing things like hope and community to people who want/need it, but that's it.

3. What's the dumbest way you've been injured?
- There would be so many lol. The way the dog broke my foot was pretty stupid haha. He chased after a bird and the lead got trapped around my foot and pulled me head over heels.

4. Do you believe fibromyalgia is a real disease? Why or why not?
- I guess I do, but I don't know much about it to say for sure, and I'm not a doctor.

5. Has anyone in your family been diabetic?
- Yep, it runs in my family.

6. When was the last time you can remember falling down the stairs, and what happened? Were you alone or was it in public? Share details!
- I actually can't recall a time.

7. Do you wear earmuffs during the colder months?
- Nope.

8. Do you know anyone who has the medical condition POTS?
- I think so.

9. Do you know what the medical condition POTS is?
- I think so.

10. Do you experience frequent tachycardia?
- No, not that I'm aware of anyway.

11. Have you been ignoring someone who has been trying to reach out to you? If so, why?
- Not recently.

12. Do you agree or disagree with this quote: The only constant variable in my life is pain and suffering.
- Well, it's kinda true but it's an awfully pessimistic way of seeing things. I'm a pessimist but I tend to keep it inside for the most part because vocalising it is just depressing, not just for myself but for people around me.

13. If you celebrate Thanksgiving, have you ever been the one to cook the turkey? 🦃
- We don't do Thanksgiving in Australia.

14. Do you pray every day? 🙏 Why or why not?
- Nope, because I'm not religious.

15. Do you know anyone who has lupus?
- Not that I'm aware of.

16. List three emotions you've experienced in the past 24 hours.
- Nostalgia, anxiety, boredom.

17. When was the last time you went to Starbucks?
- About nine months ago, in Japan.

18. When was the last time you baked scones?
- About a month ago.

19. Do you decorate your home for fall? 🍁
- Nah.

20. Do you prefer ebooks or actual books? 📕
- Actual books.

21. What does the last mug you drank out of look like?
- Small and white with the logo of my primary school on it.

22. What is one thing you love about getting older?
- Gaining more experience and slowly becoming more comfortable with who I am as a person.

23. Do you post on Instagram frequently?
- Not really. I often lurk on it, looking at other people's things.

24. How many Instagram accounts do you have?
- I have three, but they aren't all used.

25. What is your Instagram username (if you wish to share)?
- You can check out the Insta for my dog lol, olliethevoid

[another-sky]

1. A lot of my friends are unfollowing or unfriending those who agree with a different political party than them. Have you ever unfollowed or unfriended anyone over politics? Why or why not?
I haven't unfollowed anyone over only politics, but I have unfollowed people who were being hateful or anti-human-rights because of their politics.

2. Do you trust in God? Why or why not?
Nope, I don't believe in the existence of any sort of god/deity/etc.

3. What's the dumbest way you've been injured?
Oh I've had lots of dumb injuries haha. I once got jet fuel sprayed up my nose and into my eyes and had to go to the ER to get it washed out (I was fueling a plane and the high pressure stream of fuel ricocheted off a tank tab and right up into my face). My bell pepper incident last year was pretty dumb, too... I was looking through a display of precariously-stacked bell peppers at the grocery store when several of them started to fall down. I tried to catch them, cut my finger on the plastic bin they were falling out of, and the cut got infected.

4. Do you believe fibromyalgia is a real disease? Why or why not?
Yes absolutely. I've seen what it does to people and there's no doubt it's real. I follow a few people on social media who suffer from it and I've also watched videos on YouTube of doctors and researchers talking about it.

5. Has anyone in your family been diabetic?
Nope.

6. When was the last time you can remember falling down the stairs, and what happened? Were you alone or was it in public? Share details!
Sometime around 2012 or 2013. It was only a few stairs, though.  I was at home, going down the stairs, and simply lost my footing and slipped.

7. Do you wear earmuffs during the colder months?
I prefer hats. I don't like how earmuffs look on me.

8. Do you know anyone who has the medical condition POTS?
I have a working diagnosis of POTS. I've had it since my 4th covid booster in late 2022, and then it got worse after I had actual covid in June/July of this year, and that's when my cardiologist started to suspect that it's been POTS all along. I still need to do autonomic testing, though.

9. Do you know what the medical condition POTS is?
Yep.  Basically a malfunctioning of the autonomic nervous system.  I just wish I didn't know firsthand lol.

10. Do you experience frequent tachycardia?
It's not as frequent now that I started meds in February 2023, but I still get bad flare ups where my resting heart rate goes up to 130-150 bpm and I'm barely able to stand up. I've had to go to the ER a few times because of it since I also sometimes get random heart attack symptoms along with the tachycardia.

11. Have you been ignoring someone who has been trying to reach out to you? If so, why?
Nope.

12. Do you agree or disagree with this quote: The only constant variable in my life is pain and suffering.
I disagree.

13. If you celebrate Thanksgiving, have you ever been the one to cook the turkey? 🦃
Yep.  I cooked a full Thanksgiving dinner a few times for just my husband and I, back when we lived in Virginia.  We didn't live near family, and with both of us working in aviation, we didn't always have enough time off work to travel over a holiday to go visit family.  So, I made a turkey and all the standard side dishes for just us to have at home together.

14. Do you pray every day? 🙏 Why or why not?
No. I'm an atheist.

15. Do you know anyone who has lupus?
I don't think so.

16. List three emotions you've experienced in the past 24 hours.
Happiness, apathy, gratitude.

17. When was the last time you went to Starbucks?
About a month ago.  I got a tea latte on the way to the park.

18. When was the last time you baked scones?
Years ago.

19. Do you decorate your home for fall? 🍁
Yep, I always get an assortment of pumpkins to decorate the front porch.

20. Do you prefer ebooks or actual books? 📕
Actual books.

21. What does the last mug you drank out of look like?
It's a light cream colored Mason Cash stoneware mug, with an embossed leaf/forest design all over the outside.  It's my favorite mug.

22. What is one thing you love about getting older?
People finally treating me like the competent adult I am. I look quite a bit younger than my age and I went through my entire 20s having people (who don't know me well enough to know my age) treat me like I was a teenager, or maybe at best a college student. Some people were very condescending about it.

23. Do you post on Instagram frequently?
Not really. I mostly use Instagram for my nature and drone photography, but ever since my POTS got worse, I oftentimes don't feel well enough to go on walks out in nature.

24. How many Instagram accounts do you have?
Two, but one is pretty much abandoned. I started it in 2012 and haven't posted on it since about 2019.

25. What is your Instagram username (if you wish to share)?
kel_m90