What I look for in people

This is another post I'm pinning to the top of my journal because I think it will be good for people. This is something I wrote on OKCupid (a personals/dating site, of sorts), describing what I was looking for:

A lot of what I care about in people is attitude, so theoretically it's pretty easy to get me to like you. I like people who are detailed and complicated, who keep their minds young, who act and think as if the world is very big, who are keenly interested in the breadth of what is possible, who assume they can do most things they set their minds to even if reality sets pesky limits on them, who attempt to act on the world in interesting ways, who rarely do anything for fewer than six reasons even if those seem to conflict, who are aware of things around them, who routinely try to think thousands of years into the future even if they don't know what they are doing, who believe that ideas matter, who believe that they own their own lives, who consciously do things their own way even if it's less efficient, who aren't easily intimidated by novel tasks, who care about doing the right thing yet single-mindedly pursue their own happiness, who assume social categories are somebody else's problem, who consistently try to see good in other people even when that annoys everybody, and who think "because it makes people laugh" is a pretty good justification for doing something. I could use more people like that in my life.