Episode 27: Some Bits About My Character
It gets formed very early, and doesn’t change much. I’m the same person always.
I get attached to people very quickly, and it lasts a long time.
I don’t like letting go of things. I don’t like parting, from anyone1.
I don’t like showing people that they have hurt me. I pretend to them that they haven’t
I remember injustices, and resent them for a long time.
I’m not very professional. I learn the least amount I need in order to manage.
I foolishly imagine I can be good at anything if I try.
There are some books and subfields I’ve been intending to learn my whole life, and can never get down to them.
I’m slow and perhaps, occasionally if I’m lucky, slightly deep rather than quick.
I like to understand what there is to understand with what I already know.
I’m very persistent.
I don’t like being in organizations. I wish I did.
I hate working for people and sometimes hate people I work for.
I like to work in small groups or by myself.
I need company and need responses from people, and will sometimes say things I shouldn’t in order to get that response.
I have an unfortunate “eagerness to impart unnecessary information”.
The past is always there.
I sometimes mope but I don’t get depressed.
I complain a lot.
It took me a while to realize this, but …
In all its phenomena the outer world is filled with divine splendor, but first we must have experienced the Divine within ourselves if we are to discover it in the surrounding world. — Rudolf Steiner
Parting is a sort of rejection. I don’t even like hanging up the phone.