My friend Cathy, whom I love, was just blogging about her weekend. She mentions personality types, which I think are very fun. She is Mel/Chol which means that her house is perfect and she is very artistic.
There's all sorts of names for the personality types, and lots of different tests, too. I like to keep it simple.
There's Melancholy, Choleric, Sanguine, and Phlegmatic.
Most of us have one dominant, and one somewhat-less-dominant.
Melancholy means you have a super clean house and are organized right into neurosis. You are also passionate and artistic. They are prone to moodiness on account of being deep thinkers. You also think I am writing about you at this very moment, and you will be certain, down deep, that I really hate you. I don't.
Sanguines are the exact opposite. They are messy and flighty and very very very fun. They are shallow thinkers whose moods change more frequently than anything you ever saw in your life. It's psychotic. You are the life of the party, and were likely a cheerleader. You will shrivel up and die if you think someone doesn't like you. Tranquilizers might help.
Cholerics are totally in charge and have never been wrong. Ever. They tend to have a flash temper, and they are always right about everything. They're great leaders...annoying...but great leaders. NASA? Run by cholerics. Politicians? Cholerics. CEOs? You got it. Tenderhearted? Not so much.
Phlegmatics are mellow as can be. They are very laid back, and easy going, and would be lazy if they had the energy. They are sarcastic. They have a will of iron, but it takes so much energy to implement! They are practical and levelheaded. They will like you until you give them reason not to, and then they will dislike you until the Second Coming.
I am Sanguine with a bit of Choleric. It's very fun to be me, and you should do what I say.
Most of my friends are Melancholy or Phlegmatic.
I think that's because you can't have two Sanguines in the same room. The energy level and general enthusiasm would reach maximum density and ignite, or something. People would die. It would be ugly.
I think that Phlegmatics watch Sangunies with a grim fascination. They know all that freakish fun loving will generate some kind of disaster. The Phlegmatic sighs heavily and waits until those pragmatic skills are needed to repair the damage.
And why do Melencholys stick around with me? Well, I think they stand agog. They have no evidence within themselves that life can be so altogether amusing and frivolous. It's both alarming and attractive. They keep a safe distance, because who really knows but that all that fun could unhinge the human mind? It's a reasonable question.
5 comments:
I'm glad I'm phlegmatic and too lazy to be hurt at your descrition of my kind of people. I am going to go read your friend's blog to see if she has anything nicer to say about my species.
I would be lazy if I had the energy. But I've used it all up to ask this: what is it called when you don't even have the energy to be lazy?
(I wan't a better word than phlem).
Isn't it just the strangest thing that we've been friends for so long? Because I can look at you, with all your crazy, dramatic silliness, and just love you to pieces. But usually people like you just drive me crazy. Really.
Love you, my crazy sanguine.
Jenn, you really should start drinking coffee, it's the antidote to Phlegmatic. Only, I thought you were Mel/Chol?
Patsy, you are a wonderful, unlazy Phleg, and should stop drinking coffee, as I mentioned on your blog. Then you could really be lazy instead of cleaning so much. It's not good for you to work so hard.
Cathy, have you considered up-ing your coffee intake? More caffine would help with the Dramatic Silliness Tolerance Level. Oh, Maybe that was alcohol...
Isn't odd that it's all these phlegmatics that are replying -- obviously we're not too lazy to cruise the blogs, lol. I too surround myself with sanguines, I think it is because I keep waiting around for the spontaneous combustion.
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