Twenty-one-year-old homegrown TFC midfielder Jonathan Osorio is a Rookie of the Year contender in Major League Soccer. We gave him the Proust Questionnaire and learned his thoughts on family, his most treasured possession and when he will resort to a white lie.

1. What is your idea of perfect happiness?
“I think perfect happiness is living your dream, accomplishing everything you wanted and being happy with your family.”

2. What is your greatest fear?
“Losing everything I worked hard for.”

3. Which historical or living figure do you most identify with?
“I admire Martin Luther King Jr. for everything he did. I think that was a great thing he did for the world.”

4. Which living person do you most admire?
“My Dad.”

5. What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?
“My shyness.”

6. What is the trait you most deplore in others?
“When people don’t mind their own business.”

7. What is your greatest extravagance?
“It’s not an extravagance but it’s very important to me. The necklace I am wearing. I got it from my grandparents. It means so much to me. The only time I take it off is for practice and sometimes even then I don’t take it off.”

8. On what occasions do you lie?
“When people ask me to say something good about them even though it’s not true. I will lie just to make them happy.”

9. What do you dislike most about your appearance?
“My eyes.”

10. When and where were you happiest?
“When I am home with my family.”

11. If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?
“I would be more outgoing.”

12. If you could change one thing about your family, what would it be?
“That they weren’t working so much. I wish we could go out more as a family.”

13. What do you consider your greatest achievement?
“Signing my first contract with Toronto FC.”

14. If you died and came back as a person or thing, what would it be?
“I’d love to be the President of the United States.”

15. What is your most treasured possession?
“I have a signed Real Madrid jersey. It’s signed by the whole team. My Dad got it as an auction.”

16. What do you regard as your lowest depth of misery?
“Being alone, separated from family.”

17. Who are your heroes in real life?
“One is my dad. I think doctors are real heroes. They save lives.”

18. What is it that you most dislike?
“Losing.”

19. How would you like to die?
“Any way that doesn’t involve my family seeing it.”

20. What is your motto?
“Hard work pays off.”