Personality Meter
by If I knew your traits ahead of time I might have stayed away. Who am I kidding? You smelled good.
After having a very in depth conversation with my sister about personalities, I have decided that someone, must do a personality test that really works! I am convinced that people really have no concept about who they actually are. That’s right I said it, we have all become delusional about ourselves. I believe that if we were all forced to take personality tests we would all see who we should be married to or be friends with. I am not talking about one of those match making sites that determines whether you are compatible with someone based on whether you both like going to the movies or not. I am talking a true to life you are 60% talented and 10% socially inept.
It is sad, because I am convinced that it is because of this image we have of ourselves that we end up divorced, in rehab and talking to a shrink. Just to determine if it was you or is there a chance I am bipolar. We pick people because of their “winning personalities” that only last 2 months at best and then they turn psycho. I am completely confused as to how your perception of a person can change so quickly. It would never change if we knew openly and honestly right off the bat, that while you seem nice in certain situations; in reality you are actually possessive and jealous.
So I blame the scientists! Yes, this is all because of them! They convince us that playing games and acting out wild fantasies, only to fight about all of that 2 months later, is all in the hopes of compatible reproduction. Since animals sniff out their mates, is it not obvious that we should also determine the people in our lives based on the way they smell. Cool, so I marry someone and divorce them because they smelled good at first and then they stank. Great, while the fancy scientist are doing a Discovery Channel show on “How love Works”, the rest of us in the real world are busy fighting over who did the laundry last.
In conclusion, I have decided that if these scientists spent more time analyzing personalities and less time on how we smell, then the rest of us would finally pick the right person to be and be with. Until they do, we are stuck here reading self help books, eating cookie dough and wondering why we have so many cats.
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Post CommentFelowe
On August 21, 2008 at 11:35 am
I loved it! I agree with many things you said. Blaming the scientists however, I don’t agree with. That title has only been around for a few hundred years, and we as humans have been fighting over the same bs for centuries. They do seem to have made matters worse. They come up with these hoity toity names for all the issues we have and it’s prepared us with more ammo with which to shoot each other down. Someone could be a little off and eccentric and the whole world says they have a disorder.
And really the only reason we medicate these disorders is because everyone is doing it, and one bad apple apparently spoils the whole damn bunch.
Other than that, I loved it. By the way, I, too, am bipolar. Yay for us!!!
blaine dhu
On August 26, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Psychologists already have something like that out there. I forget the name, but they determine your likely jobs/mates and whatnot. I really identify with the ISFT personality type.
Judy Sheldon
On September 3, 2008 at 7:56 am
I find it fascinating that you have touched up the idea that the medical staff wants to label each and everyone of us with some type of disorder (I wrote an article on it also). Two months is not long enough to get to know someone’s “quirks”, and in fact some times there doesn’t seem to be enough time in the world, because a whole different side can come out at a totally unexpected moment. I loved the way you handled your content with a touch of humor. Well written, thoughtful and entertaining. Thanks for sharing.