Sometimes it never occurs to you.. that you've been transformed in to a
whole different person, not until someone shows you your reflection
in your views, your thoughts, your apprehensions and your whole
behavioural patterns. This change, to you, happened so very naturally, just like the beard growing right beneath your chin.. which you never feel so is your psyche
which is changing this very instant.
Sometimes makes me wonder, should i take a personality test everyday ?
Before i do that, is there such an ideal test that can show me for what i am ?
Sadly, the existance of such a test is as mythical as the very idea of knowing
oneself completely.The zillions of variables that give a shape to the
consciousness that we experience, can hardly be evaluated to determine
our personality. I've taken a few personality tests which classify human beings in
to a finite set of personality traits, as it goes with every PT, you are initially
asked a set of questions and based on what you scored on them you will be given a
combination of traits that which will determine the results of the test.
The most common trick that the authors of such tests play is that
when you go ahead and read your personality, no matter what score you
have got in the test, you will find some encouraging inferences about your
personality, most of the inferences immaterial of whether they are true,
are definitely cheesy. Though, you sometimes know that what is said
about you doesnt really portray you, the fact that something good is being
said about you, subconsciously makes you adapt and accept to that, and
when such an acceptance is subconscious you never realize that you
are being tricked, but do feel that what is being said completely relates to you.
They choose to be euphonic when it comes to putting down your turn-offs,
for instance,
saying that you are a team player, and are adaptable to pressurizing situations,
instead of mentioning that you lack a leadership quality, wouldnt hurt you
as much as listening to the truth in a more harsh way, which basically is that
"you suck at leadership..!"
My point is, no matter what bin the personality test puts you in, you accept to
fit in only when you are okay with it subconsciously, so is your concept of
having a personality in the first place.
If someone comes up to you and says right to your face that you lack a
personality, or character. These words(personality/character)which
you took pride in saying all the while, when are rendered meaningless
will sure hurt your feelings.But, if you really know how complex a
mechanism you are, to be labelled as something or to possess the notion of
being a person of certain character, will sure become a farce.
So, don't sterotype yourself, to some idea of this self that you've been
repeating to yourself every instance, for a change try to think of yourself
as water, water that takes the shape of the container it flows in to.
Be Formless.. my friend.. Be the Water.. !!
6 comments:
"Sometimes it never occurs to you.. that you've been transformed in to a
whole different person, not until someone shows you your reflection
in your views, your thoughts, your apprehensions and your whole
behavioural patterns. This change, to you, happened so very naturally, just like the beard growing right beneath your chin.. "
YES YES YES. Precisely. I have been searching for a way to put this into words. True change can never be something that is forced, but occurs after a certain level of introspection and it develops of its own accord...naturally. Things that are instinctual and belonging to our inherent nature are beyond our conscious control. Perhaps this is the conflict....because we are physical beings primarily, and also because we are dual and non-dual at the same time (meaning that we are really one, even with all the opposites within our 'selves'), we also have that other side to awareness...the things that arise but that we do not control...the things that just 'are', whether we like it or not.
The 'who' of what we all are is not a static thing. In a way there is no point in defining who you are because even our personalities are transitory. The only thing that is consistent throughout is the memory and perceptions that are attached to these definitions.
I love the analogy of being like water and allowing yourself to take the shape of the 'container' (or situation) that your self (and your life) flows into. Perhaps this is the meaning of true acceptance.
Great post!
PS...i dont have the beard under my chin yet...i keep checking, yet it eludes me...
M,
Queer.. u're comment on my post comes just when i was
typing one for your last post :)
and he he, may be i was thinking too chauvenistic in giving the beard as an anology.
it's such a pleasure as always to see your projections on my post.
Yes Peeps "Be Water!..", but don't forgot that it vaporizes when the time is right!
I personally never take personality tests seriously becuase they are meaningless and only works if you are a mediocre person -but then you think that it works! (But they are great fun to be honest :-), Only sad thing is that people take it too seriously. But if you are really smart you can beat those tests. otherwise you can beat the perosn who did the test :-). Ok, no violence now..)
Hey, where is that water now??. (Ooeps, it vaporized and took another form :-)
@Nothing,
what more can i ask.. if not evaporation.. if not sublimation.. :)
u're absolutely right.. these personality tests are amusing.. that's y
i took one in the first place. I'm sure.. any one who knows himself...
well enough.. that he doesn't know himself enough..will not take them
any seriously than... a fortune cookie...!!
cheers
Personality tests should be taken just about as seriously as life should be taken. If it shows you some truth, any truth, then it has value. That's the bottom line. However, I am also of the opinion that there is a little of everything in everybody...personality tests just focus on which part of yourself you are expressing at the time the test is being taken.
I take my fortune cookies with a similar degree of 'seriousness'. hehe
peace
Damn dude, that picture is scary as fuck. That's all I wanna say for now. I'll return with more intelligent comments when I get some time. Just stumbled onto your page but I like what I see.
Cheers.
-meta
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