Personality Test--Stolen from starlightmoonla

This is very interesting. When I was in high school, I was an ETJ, evenly split between N and S. Now, I am apparently an INFP? I actually don't think that's right, I think my answers to questions are being inevitably skewed by my recent life experiences. Like, do I *really* prefer to do projects whenever I feel like it, or have I developed that as a habit of self-preservation in a job that will take all of your life if you let it? I think the latter, I think I am *not* a natural procrastinator, so maybe it's interesting to learn that five years at a job for which you are not well-suited really does result in your entire personality having to shift and alter in order to survive. No wonder I've spent so many years feeling not at all like myself: I *haven't* been!

Anyway, some of the INFP description fits me (I would be happiest as a writer? Oh, yes), and some of it doesn't sound like how I would describe myself. Unselfish? I don't think of myself that way, at all. Difficult to get to know? I think that makes me sound standoffish, and I'm not sure I am, I don't know. Unrealistic? Oh, God, I think my problem is that I am absolutely mired in the realness of life... And weak? I cannot imagine other people see me as weak, even if they "don't get me"! This is amazing to me, because I secretly am very proud of how strong I think I've turned out to be. I have a reputation at work--an actual reputation I've heard people say to others--for being someone others shouldn't cross, and I think there are no people on earth who "get me" less than my co-workers. But I could be wrong. I'll have to take this test again in a few months.

I do love that, even after everything I've been through, I apparently test as an idealist. Maybe I am unrealistic, if that's managed to survive... 

You Are An INFP

The Idealist You are a creative person with a great imagination. You enjoy living in your own inner world. Open minded and accepting, you strive for harmony in your important relationships. It takes a long time for people to get to know you. You are hesitant to let people get close to you. But once you care for someone, you do everything you can to help them grow and develop. In love, you tend to have high (and often unrealistic) standards. You are very sensitive. You tend to have intense feelings. At work, you need to do something that expresses your personal values. You would make an excellent writer, psychologist, or artist. How you see yourself: Unselfish, empathetic, and spiritual When other people don't get you, they see you as: Unrealistic, naive, and weak

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Advent Calendar 22 -- Opportunities (requested by ladychi)

There were times, in those days, when she looked at him too long, trailing off in her sentences and getting lost in thoughts that he couldn’t even begin to guess at. She would just sit there, staring at him. It made him fidgety and uncomfortable, made him worry that there was something wrong with her, that she’d been brainwashed by a mibit, or maybe been drugged with some zood.

It wasn’t until later, much later, that he finally figured out what all those awkward pauses had really been: opportunities. He was glad he’d managed to finally catch one of them.