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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Straight Shooter" data-source="post: 256933" data-attributes="member: 16195">Thank you so much for your response Rahu, also MTTY05 and waybread!!Okay I'm not sure what type of response I am suppose to give back, but here goes.I would agree that I am a complicated and complex personality.  I "think" in a philosophical manner as well as conceptual.  I am always striving to improve myself, and live up to my potential.  I stumble a lot in those areas, but it is my very nature to do these things.  I am very analytical.  I have encountered many an "odd circumstances" in my life, and unusual people.  Their uniqueness attracts me, and many I admire greatly.  I am very intuitive, so this has help me to sift through a lot of the tricky difficult parts, but not 100%, lol.  When it doesn't work I am hurt, surprised and disappointed in people and myself.  Small children and animals in general are drawn to me.  I love both, so its not so bad.I have many friends, and several close friends, and a more than one life long friend.  I considered myself blessed, because of it.  My mother died when I was young, and my father 10 years later.  I was very close to both.  I was lucky to know one of my parents as an adult.  Its makes life so much richer.  I am an only child.  I grew up with my cousins, so still have some close family relations. My parents were older when I was born, a late in life baby.  I was blessed there as well, because they loved me so well that their loss has left me with a deep sadness that is always present.I am generally expansive and happy and outgoing, more so when I was younger.   In personality typing Meyers-Briggs I test one of three depending on the day, and my life in general.  ENTP/ENFP/INFP   No family wealth in the material sense, but in love and caring yes, I was blessed.I can be daring, but I use logic, reason and caution in all things.  I think I need to learn to take more risk.  You are right that is in my nature, but I hold back on this one.  I actually have lots of patience, even as a child with people and life situations.  I do get bored with things, and scatter myself in my interests and projects though.  Its hard for me to finish something.  I get bogged and bored with details.  This is something I am working on. I do appreciated exactitude and coherence, and can at times be critical.  I work on this one, because I believe in constructive criticism, and despise when its used to hurt, harm or destroy.  I am somewhat cynical about life, yet I view its beauty and potential through rose colored glasses.  I hope always I will do this, and it has paid off more times than not.  I strive for a positive attitude and approach to all things. I was a bit of a Pollyanna as a child. Life as I grew altered this somewhat.I am extremely reflexive and analytical.  I am fascinated by the complex and complicated.  I see patterns and try to figure out the motivation and reasons behind them.I am not really all that moody, but I can be at times, and probably for the reasons you name.  Thank God, that is not a constant in my life, but more rare.  I would have to think about this some to decide how much this affects me.  I do get disappointed in people, and humanity as a whole at times. I am fairly even tempered, and slow to anger or strike out unless pushed.  This may be affect of my Pollyanna attitude as child filtering the fire through the hopeful, don't know.  I would agree the bottom line is I am a survivor.  My life already shows that.I disagree about the gray.  If you cannot see the shades of gray than fairness and justice will not be as clear of a guide in your decisions making processes.  This a big thing to me fairness, justice and respect of persons.  I believe somewhat in situational judgments, as well as compassion and kindness when dealing with others.  Its the shades of gray that fascinated me about people, and their motivations and reasoning.  Its why I write stories, read them, and watch them with such avid interest.  It accounts for my interest in psychology and astrology as well as philosophy   Why I enjoy visiting with others, and learning how they think.  I am compelled to do it.  I am an observer of nature, people and the environment.  I will think about what is meant when you say there are no gray areas in my perspective and reasoning in case I did not grasp fully what you were referring to.  Again thank you for your response.  Its was enlightening and fun.  I am learning how to read and see the astrology chart for interpretation, which has been more difficult than expected.  Your response revealed that it shows things that I already know about myself.  How cool is that?  Striving to view, understand, and read astrology charts with logic, reason and insight, so I can understand others better.  Thank you again.Straight Shooter</blockquote>

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