Trevar J Simmons--Who is he? Part III

Because Trevar has a lot to say. ;-)

What kinds of things do you like to do?
This is another one of those questions that is just so broad.

When I buy coffee, I like to open it. Open it and smell it. Ground coffee—it smells the best when the seal is first broken. I also just like the process of opening it up. The anticipation, the sound of the seal coming off…I love it.

I like to be with people. Generally. Generally, less people verses more. When with people, I like to shoot the breeze, talk about deep questions, or just be in their presence doing completely different things, or similar things. It’s just fun to have other people around sometimes.

I like to appreciate art. And interpret art. I like to interpret things in general: people, events. I love to interpret. Perhaps itself is an art form.

I like to make other people happy. I am a people pleaser. Which is part of why I want to help people. I mean, not only do people need help, and not only does God send us to help them, but I like them to be happy.

I like to hang out without my pants on. Generally, it’s just around my apartment when I’m alone. It’s just comfy.

I like to watch the rain. But not be rained upon. I like the sound, the smell, the sight. I like to watch the way the rain affects plants, animals, people.


I am a people watcher. I loved living in West Palm Beach and going to this place called City Place, and all kinds of people would go there and you could just stand and watch people for long. It was great.

I love to be at the ocean: on it in a boat, in it scuba diving, on the beach or a cliff by the ocean watching the water, listening to the waves, feeling the wind, tossing rocks in the water, sometimes even fishin’.

I like to eat. And eat. AND EAT!

I especially like to eat pizza, because it can be prepared in so many ways. One of my favorites is the frozen pizza. Or pizza that I make. Or Papa John’s. Or Dominos. Or Pizza Hut. Pretty much pizza.

I also like Asian food. Some people say that they like Japanese, or Chinese…I just Asian. Oh and Mexican! I like tacos, and chalupas. And Italian food. I just love food. It is a great art to appreciate.

I like T'ai Chi.

I like to bite my Peanut M&Ms in half. Especially when I can get the peanut to stay in the half of the Peanut M&M that is not in my mouth. Sometimes I’ll take the peanut out of the M&M not in my mouth and eat the peanut and chocolate separately.

I like to eat Doritos. And with most flavored chips, I like to lick both sides of the chips to see which side has the most flavor and than I put that side on my tongue. And if it’s a really hard call, when alone, I will lick one side of the chip and than put the other side on my tongue. And I am not the only person who does this! I’ve discovered at least one other person. I don’t remember how we came across this though.

Does having my back rubbed count as something I like to do? It doesn’t have to be a massage. Just somebody touching my back and moving their hand around. Specifically on my back, but I also like it on my head, or arms, or legs, or feet.

I like to play games, specifically with people. Some are fun by yourself. But mostly with other people. Video games, I’m not so crazy about unless I’m playing with someone else.

I like to watch my fishies.

I like to walk at night. I like to look at things at night. Thinks look great during the day. But I like the way they are in the night. Whether they are specially light or not, or in the moonlight or not. The moon doesn’t even have to be out.

I like to take hints from Courtney Butler about finishing answering this question.

Oh oh oh—I like to have my tattoo!



Okay I’m done.

If you could give one piece of advice to the world, what would it be?
What do you mean by “the world”? I think the advice would change, depending on specific people and their specific situation. I don’t know that I like to give advice, because than it seems that I think I know something that they don’t, and I’m uncomfortable with that. I’m not them, and I don’t know what they should do. I think that everyone is different and we all have different “shoulds”. So, “Stop shoulding on yourself.”

For the world, are you talking about all the people in the world? Or the things in the world too? The trees? All the people past, present, and future? Just in America? Some people mean the world to me. Are those the people I’m giving advice to? How about based on some of our conversations and what is in my mind right now, if I could give one “word” of what I might deem as wisdom to the “world”: If God is a personal God, than expect God’s relationship to differ on the people involved.

God doesn’t relate to me the way I hear other people talk about it. Sometimes I wish I could feel a strong sense of “calling” the way other people do. Maybe God doesn’t relate to me like that because I’m a different person. I can’t expect to have the same experiences that other people do. Some people talk in tongues. I would love to have visions, to prophesize, to have this mystic ecstatic relationship, but I’m not a very ecstatic person. I’m pretty chill, mellow, with a more or less quiet demeanor. So it only makes sense that God wouldn’t relate to me that way. Of course, it does open doors to does God relate to people so differently that their religion is different than ours? That maybe God gives them different Holy texts, different revelations, manifests, interpretations of holy actions?

If there was one thing in the world that you could change, what would it be?
Today that one thing would be ending oppression. Or, somehow giving everyone the gift of love, because I think that would end oppression as well. Maybe everyone already has that gift, and just aren’t using it?