Share what kind personality you have, compared to your best alternate personality

Mr. Ed

Be what you is not what you what you ain’t
Location
Central NY
I can be outgoing or passive observer waiting for my time to act. I prefer having one or two close friends but mostly I don’t invest myself into developing friendships.

On the flip side If I could choose an opposite personality type not my own would be someone who grew up in riches having the perks and privileges of high finance.

I wonder how much Mr. Ed the stable horse would change if he were Sir Mr. Ed the greatest who lived in luxury?

Can basic character traits be changed or influence by circumstantial and environment?

There are no mistakes in life. Whoever or whatever we are may be a mystery but no one is a mistake. It is good reminder to appreciate who we are and what we’ve done in life.
 

I'm the type of "fly by the seat of my pants" and hope it comes out right. Think Scarlett in Gone with the Wind but with a little more empathy

My alternate personality would be Melanie, all goody two shoes, boring but nice.
 
I'm introverted and socially awkward. I don't have conflict skills, I'm (mostly secretly) overcritical of others, I get anxious about failing or making mistakes (even if it is a computer game, but especially at work in a meeting). I'd be afraid to have those phone apps that tell you what tone of voice you have because I'm pretty sure my anxiety makes me sound harsh. I have trouble verbally expressing myself in an articulate way, usually fading off mid-sentence. I'm highly conscientious. I'm inhibited, would love to go dancing but there is no way I could in front of people. I don't like people until I know them.
In general I am very kind to animals (and insects) but too often I mess up if it is a mouse and then I feel bad.
On the other hand I almost always feel very happy, I'm somewhat willing, occasionally enthusiastic, to try new things (like new methods at work, not like gross sounding food or putting myself out there socially), I'm charitable, supportive, I like helping coworkers learn things. I can have a few twinkles of brilliance as long as I can work through a problem completely on my own without pressure, I'm good at figuring out the preconditions that is causing software to break, I like logic challenges and can be persistent. I have a little courage -- such as was the first person to ride a couple of unbroke horses when I was younger, and like my trip to Wales/London/Paris a couple years ago that I went all by myself with a backpack and small bag and had to find my way around on trains and buses and one boat across the channel - doesn't sound very brave but for me it was a big adventure (thank goodness for google maps, though I wandered around lost quite a bit anyway, and wound up totally depending on the kindness of strangers for helping me figure out how to buy a train ticket from a machine in Calais, France, and for communicating a need for laundry detergent when google-translate (or my attempt at a French accent) failed me in Paris).
Of course I would have loved to be rich, but you never know what effect that will have, some rich people use their money for good and some for evil, and some are just childishly self-indulgent. Not sure what it would have done to me.
My alternate personality would be CALM.
 

I don't have an alternate personality. I respond to situations as they crop up.
 


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