~This is my personality profile for you to think about~
Here's one important truth about you: you have a tender heart. Yes,
you know that others need to learn to take care of themselves. Yes,
you know they need to accept the consequences of their foolish or
bad behavior. And sometimes, even when your instinct is to help
them, you will let them fend for themselves and let them suffer the
consequences of their choices or circumstances.
But most of the time you are there to help when they need you. If
they are in trouble, you offer compassion and go out of your way to
be helpful. If they need someone who will listen, you are
trustworthy and sympathetic. And you are direct with them; when
they need advice or counsel, you offer it in a straightforward,
direct manner, without beating around the bush.
You're also smart enough to know that you cannot take good care of
others if you fail to take good care of yourself, so you listen to
your own wants and needs. If you've run out of sympathetic energy,
you spend time restoring yourself. If you've ignored your own pain
or frustration, you find a friend who will listen well, or go into
your own private healing place and give yourself permission to
focus on you. You do know how to take care of yourself, but your
genuine interest is in taking care of others.
A General Description of How You Approach New Information and
Experiences:
You think like an artist. Or better, you SEE like an artist. While
most people look at life's straight lines, its height and depth and
width, you're bending the lines with your imagination and turning
black and white into shades of blue and yellow. And in
conversations at work or with your friends you want to ask, "Do you
see what I see?" A few might, most don't, but you've piqued
everyone's curiosity with your own original and inventive ways of
thinking.
You can, if you must, think in conventional ways. But left on your
own, you'll usually opt for the eccentric or avant-garde; in fact
you're usually bored with what everyone else is comfortable with.
You learn from reading, talking, watching people and other fauna
and flora, and simply sitting in the soft chair ofInterests:your
mind and wondering how people would learn how to count if they
could only use uneven numbers. You are out in front of conventional
ideas, bravely originally defining true and false, right and wrong,
the good, the bad and the ugly.
Even those whom you make uncomfortable know, as just about everyone
does, that you're not a flake. You think well, and even your
wildest fancies have their roots in the deep soil of sound ideas
and tested beliefs. So even if some people don't want to drive at
high speed with you, they will respect you for your courage as an
innovative and unconventional thinker. You lend color and
imagination to what would otherwise be the straight black and white
lines of their work world and social environments.
General Description of Your Reactivity:
In some ways, you've got the best of emotional worlds. When
emotions rise up from inside you or are brought forth from a
conversation by a friend, you know how to engage them. You deal
with sadness, fear, joy, anger - whatever comes up - in ways that
are perceptive and flexible. You can adapt to whatever level of
emotion is appropriate to the moment. At other times, you are able
to cope with your emotions in a more reserved manner. Because you
are aware of what does and does not make emotional sense in a
particular situation, you will decide when it is an appropriate
time to express your emotions and when it would be best to keep
them to yourself. All of this gives you a rich emotional life. You
are free to express your passions about certain subjects with
appropriate people. But you are also emotionally adaptable; if the
conversation needs to be more cerebral, you'll keep it "in your
head" and talk calmly through whatever issue is on the table. This
emotional awareness serves you well. You seldom get in over your
head, either by opening up to the wrong person or by triggering in
someone else's emotions they may not be able to deal with.
Many people will be grateful to find a friend like you who can stay
in control when emotions verge on chaos, but who can also go into
the tangle of emotions when it is safe and appropriate to do so.
Because of your ability to engage them at whatever level they are
comfortable, to adapt to whatever changes in emotion emerge in the
conversation, and to cope so well with all of it - well, they'll be
very glad they found a person like you.
A General Description of How You Interact with Others:
You add liveliness to any situation. You talk and listen,
participate in whatever the activity is "a sport or a party or a
walk in the woods" and come away from such experiences pumped up by
the time spent together. You especially like to talk with your
friends. You bring energy and genuine interest to almost any
conversation. When they speak, you listen; and then you are eager
to have your say as well. You know how to connect in a
conversation, using your energy, your vocabulary, and your genuine
interest in being with the other person. You are at your best and
are happiest in these experiences of real communication.
One more thing about you. When you are in these experiences of real
communication with others, you really know how to let yourself go.
When you talk, when you play, when you participate in some
activity, you are unrestrained. You give all that you've got to
these moments, and because you like the experience so much, your
warmth comes through. It is clear to whomever you're with that
you're glad to be in just this situation. In these warm, wide-open
moments, you are you at your best.
Your warmth and liveliness will attract company to you, and your
ability to communicate with such unrestrained energy will draw them
in and keep them interested. They will appreciate your willingness
to take the initiative in planning an event or leading a
conversation, and because you come alive in a group you will make
any social situation more fun and more interesting for everyone
involved.
If you sometimes go over the top: talk too much, insist too
intently on your own opinions, get someone involved in an adventure
that may be out of their usual realm of behaviors, people who know
you well will probably cut you some slack because they understand
that when you get wound up you sometimes don't stop. It's just
lively, energetic, outgoing you who makes life so much more
interesting for your friends.