Do you ever wonder why you have certain personality traits? I do. All the time.
I swear I was type A personality in the womb. I was even born six weeks early. Having children has forced me to relax a bit. It's impossible to be as obsessive over dumb s*** when you have other little people to worry about. But I would give anything to be more laid back.
I mentioned in my last post that I fret about my weight. Oh I cannot begin to tell you what an understatement that is. My metabolism seemed to have shut down by my reckoning after having kids. So I bugged and badgered my doctor about it until he told me to knock it off and that I wasn't overweight. You'd think that it would be fabulous to have your doctor tell you that you're fine, but noooooo, not me. If I'm not perfect I can't let it go. Why is that?
I have a friend who never seems bothered by anything. I know it isn't true because every now and then she lets a tiny bit of weakness show through and says something like my hair looks like crap today. Oh happy day, she felt the need to complain about something. And I envy the heck out of her. She can be cut off in traffic and not think a thing of it. She can run into a rude cashier at the grocery store and somehow manage to make that person love her before she even swipes her debit card. She can put on a bikini and not freak out. The woman is inhuman I tell you.
And everyone notices her ability to sail through life seemingly unaffected by the B.S. that wears the rest of us down. I even asked her mom about it and she said that my friend was always like that, even as a child.
How? How did she win the personality lottery that allows her to skip the part where she gets stressed out by stupid stuff? Chicken Soup for the Soul my ass, you gotta be born able to not sweat the small stuff.
But still, I wonder. Is is possible to develop these kinds of personality traits? Was Dale Carnegie telling the truth when he said he could teach us how to win friends and influence people?
Seriously. I worry about these things.
4 comments:
You know, I don't think it's possible to change who you inherently are. I mean, even as you envied your laid-back friend, you got kind of Type A about it (very funny, that). You are the way you are.
Sure, there's yoga. Or, em, meditation.
But I'm guessing you'll still be the way you are. Nuthin' wrong with that.
Now getting to the point of accepting that--hmmm, that's possible!
I did get a little type A again didn't I?
Why can't I stop it, why?
Heh.
I'm afraid acceptance may be my only real option .
shoot honey, i am the COMPLETE opposite! ha ha ha
smiles, bee
Oh sure, rub it in.
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