Time of Day Quiz
Dusk
Like evening air when you can barely make out faces, you enjoy leaving some room within a circle of people.
In Japanese, one word for dusk, tasogare, is said to come from an old phrase meaning “Who is that?” Dusk is the time when you can barely make out the faces of the people you pass. The outlines of the landscape blur softly, too. Much like that hour, you'd rather enjoy things with some ambiguity left in than sort them strictly into black and white.
In the evening, the streets are full of people heading home or doing their shopping. You'd also rather spend time among people, tossing around “What do you think?”, than think things through alone. Even a conversation with no answer becomes fun when you share it with others.
The colors of a sunset change from day to day, and even while you're watching. Your conversations, too, change shape with the mood of the moment rather than ending in a neat conclusion. That can make it look, to people who want clear decisions, as if things ended without coming together.
Strengths
- You can enjoy conversations that have no answer, together with others
- You can gently shift the direction of a conversation to suit the mood
- You can leave alone the things that are better left unsaid
Where you may stumble
- You take home things that should have been decided, still vague
- While tossing ideas back and forth with people, you lose track of which one was actually yours
- “Someday” and “one of these days” pile up, and plans never take shape
Sounds familiar, Dusk?
- The conversation that starts with “Wait, what was that called?” gets the liveliest, and never finds an answer
- On the way home from a get-together, you end up chatting for ages just before you go separate ways
- Plans stay at “one of these days,” while the fun talk about them keeps going
Where you shine
Winding down a big gathering, or talking about things that don't need an answer right away. Just as the dusk light softly wraps the landscape, you can ease the mood of a room.
Tips for “Dusk”
- At the end of a get-together, confirm in a word just what was decided
- After a lively back-and-forth, jot down your own view in a single line
- For “one of these days” plans, settle on at least a rough month
Matches
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Midday — Midday also lives in the bustle. While Dusk enjoys the open space, Midday makes only the things that need deciding clear. Within the circle, what stays blurred and what gets lit up are neatly divided.
Midnight — Midnight also enjoys not knowing as it is. Midnight takes the “What do you think?” that Dusk tossed around with people and expands it with its own imagination. From evening into night, the open space grows deeper.
Dawn — Dawn wants to quietly check the shape of things on its own. Dusk wants to have a lively time in a circle of people without settling on an answer. When Dusk is happily wondering with friends what kind of shop that is, and Dawn has already looked it up on its own, the difference in how you enjoy things comes right out into the open.
Which one are you? 12 everyday situations, about 2 minutes.
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