Blog Post #11-Personality

I think I have a very fun and outgoing personality. While I am very relaxed and laid back, I do take matters seriously and know how to act maturely. I like to think of myself as kind, caring, loving, and compassionate, especially when it comes to my family and closest friends. I am also open minded, always willing to try something new. I want and try to help those in need to the best of my ability. I love learning new things and have learned from my experiences. I love to talk, hence my outgoing personality. I just want to have a good time. Positive traits include: caring, because it makes others feel good; fun, because who doesn't want to have an enjoyable time with me; compassion, because it shows others that they mean something; open mindness, because it lets others know I am willing to take new steps to progress something; and maturity, because people respect me for it. Some not so good traits include: my outgoing personality, because it may at times me too outgoing and gets me into trouble; my ability to comprehend things, because I may come off too strong to people; and talkative, because my mouth sometimes gets the best of me.

I like to think of myself as a very optimist person. I like to look at the brightside of things, and try to avoid the negatives. Sometimes, however, I am pessimistic, but it's usually towards something that doesn't even matter that much, like the Packers losing their football game in the final minutes. Because of my optisim, I think people see me more as a happy and joyful person, which I want. I wouldn't want people to portray me as this grumpy, serious person. I also think that I have a better outlook on life because of my optimism. It keeps me going and allows me to succeed in things such as school or work.

For starters, I know that my maturity level changes from when I'm talking to an elder to say I am hanging out with my friends. I'm still the same person, but the things I do or say become more natural to what a teenager would do when I'm with my friends. If I'm with an elder, I need to act more appropriate and come off as mature. If I acted the same all the time, no matter who I was with, people would perceive me as different. I need to know, and I do realize, that you need to act certain ways around certain people. A second trait that may change between situations would be me being laid back. Although I am content most of the time, there are times when I have to stand up for myself or those around me and let someone know what is on my mind. This would make me come off as more of an..angry person I guess. Overall, I am very laid back and casual though. I only want what is best for me.

Projection-people disguise their own threatening impulses by attributing them to others.Once I told a friend I couldn't do something with her, because my Mom said I had to stay home. However, the truth was I really didn't want to go, because of the person that was going with her. Regression-an individual faced with anxiety retreates to a more infantile psychosexual stage, where some psychic energy remains fixed. An example in my life would be when my dad moved two hours away from me and I had to resort to my mom for everything, she was always there for me, and still is. I am forever grateful to her because of that. Repression-banishes anxiety arousing thoughts, feelings, and memories from consciousness. I think that when once I did something I wasn't supposed to do, I knew my mom could not find out (it wasn't illegal or anything, just something my mom doesn't approve of). So in my mind, it's like I reconstructed the memory altogether to form an alibi that I could tell my mom instead. So far it has worked, and I don't think of the actual memory all that often.