personality
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hime1999.
List three of your biggest flaws and explain. Don't hold back. Don't justify yourself. Be honest with yourself.
Done?
Now list three of your biggest strengths and explain. Don't hold back. Don't water them down. Be honest with yourself.
Done?
Now post them to your journal and see if your friends agree with you.
Flaws:
1. My emotions swing from non-existant to intense and from one to another in a pattern I’ve yet to determine. I usually say it’s bi-polar, but truthfully I have no idea because my experiences with phsychs and counsellors pretty much gave me the impression that they thought that it was my fault I wasn’t normal because I wasn’t trying hard enough. I can go into a rant or two about that, but I won’t.
2. I ignore unpleasantness almost instinctively, except when I’m in my paranoid-depressed mode (at which point it’s all I can see). Usually this is something I kinda like about myself, but it does make me insensitive, and seemingly procrastinary (because I just forget until its almost too late) and sometimes really rude because I just don’t get when someone I’ve been laughing with or at gets serious or upset with me (and then when it does it hits my emotion-bank wham and fries it right down to depression and self-hate).
3. My memory may be detailed, but it’s also selective. Very selective. If it doesn’t interest me, I won’t remember it, if it does, I will, and then I get involved in debates where I have supporting arguments but can’t say where I got them because titles and authors of books and articles just slip my mind. Apparently this is really annoying to everyone else. So is quoting people back at themselves days to months later, and using random tidbits to make the conversation take a left-angle turn and end up in Detroit*. Combine all three of these, and sometimes I feel like my personality makes it impossible for anyone to truly like me.
Strengths:
1. I have the imagination, strength of will, concentration, and practice to pull myself out of said flaws (or the results of them). Actually, let’s just stick with my imagination. I’m a writer and a storyteller (two different things). I can create a character or a setting and have it come to life as distinctly and separate from me as though it belonged to someone else.
2. I’ve always been extremely photogenic, especially as a baby, but even now. I’ve been asked to model things several times, and it’s possible (I’m looking into it) that if I figure out the right connections I could get into the business. It’s not because I’m tall and skinny (because I’m not) or even exceptionally beautiful, but because I have a very definite personality, and it shows.
3. I don’t hate anyone. Most of the time, I’m able to see all the sides of an argument, and because I’m also very empathetic, I can understand at least partly all the sides as well. So either because I can see where they’re coming from, or because I don’t really care enough to be bothered, I don’t hate anyone. I’ve never been able to keep a grudge either, although that’s more a case of accepting than forgiving or forgetting.
* I have no idea how common this is, but for my family that’s the inevitable destination when we get lost.
hime1999.List three of your biggest flaws and explain. Don't hold back. Don't justify yourself. Be honest with yourself.
Done?
Now list three of your biggest strengths and explain. Don't hold back. Don't water them down. Be honest with yourself.
Done?
Now post them to your journal and see if your friends agree with you.
Flaws:
1. My emotions swing from non-existant to intense and from one to another in a pattern I’ve yet to determine. I usually say it’s bi-polar, but truthfully I have no idea because my experiences with phsychs and counsellors pretty much gave me the impression that they thought that it was my fault I wasn’t normal because I wasn’t trying hard enough. I can go into a rant or two about that, but I won’t.
2. I ignore unpleasantness almost instinctively, except when I’m in my paranoid-depressed mode (at which point it’s all I can see). Usually this is something I kinda like about myself, but it does make me insensitive, and seemingly procrastinary (because I just forget until its almost too late) and sometimes really rude because I just don’t get when someone I’ve been laughing with or at gets serious or upset with me (and then when it does it hits my emotion-bank wham and fries it right down to depression and self-hate).
3. My memory may be detailed, but it’s also selective. Very selective. If it doesn’t interest me, I won’t remember it, if it does, I will, and then I get involved in debates where I have supporting arguments but can’t say where I got them because titles and authors of books and articles just slip my mind. Apparently this is really annoying to everyone else. So is quoting people back at themselves days to months later, and using random tidbits to make the conversation take a left-angle turn and end up in Detroit*. Combine all three of these, and sometimes I feel like my personality makes it impossible for anyone to truly like me.
Strengths:
1. I have the imagination, strength of will, concentration, and practice to pull myself out of said flaws (or the results of them). Actually, let’s just stick with my imagination. I’m a writer and a storyteller (two different things). I can create a character or a setting and have it come to life as distinctly and separate from me as though it belonged to someone else.
2. I’ve always been extremely photogenic, especially as a baby, but even now. I’ve been asked to model things several times, and it’s possible (I’m looking into it) that if I figure out the right connections I could get into the business. It’s not because I’m tall and skinny (because I’m not) or even exceptionally beautiful, but because I have a very definite personality, and it shows.
3. I don’t hate anyone. Most of the time, I’m able to see all the sides of an argument, and because I’m also very empathetic, I can understand at least partly all the sides as well. So either because I can see where they’re coming from, or because I don’t really care enough to be bothered, I don’t hate anyone. I’ve never been able to keep a grudge either, although that’s more a case of accepting than forgiving or forgetting.
* I have no idea how common this is, but for my family that’s the inevitable destination when we get lost.