Hidden knack; nonfiction.
Sooo... Had to take a personality quiz to fill out the "description of self" on this blog.
Do you ever have that problem? You're very easily able to practice in the mirror every Tuesday evening after lawn bowls exactly what you would say when Ellen asks,
"Now, tell me about yourself."
It's easy of course. You believe in this, you're afraid of that, you love those, but you can't stand these and altogether you seem to see yourself as a sort of "humph", sort of "umph" kind of person who does "blah" for a living.
But when you're asked on the spot,
"Who are you? Describe yourself."
It's suddenly all..
"Oh, good god! Describe myself?! Who am I?! I can't remember-crud what do I like, how do I explain that hobby...Do I even fit a persoanolty type!?"
I dunno. Maybe that's just me. I really do feel like a bit of an exception. I reach both sides of the spectrum. As in I want to be a forensic anthropologist and archaeologist, but I also want to be in the Australian Ballet's version of the Nutcracker.
Most people don't really get that.....
But I guess we are not talking about that. About hobbies. We're talking about personalities.
From-We Heart It.
I typed into google search engine "Who am I?"
I thought that I'd find a funny yahoo answers page to quote, and everyone could have a good little giggle, but no, a legitimate quiz actually appeared.
The loading for my laptop was a little dodge so once I'd answered a question it took a long time to let me know it had responded to this and was in the process of loading the next page.
The result was me impatiently pounding the clicker wondering why it hadn't registered my answer yet. It had. And then in a surprisingly fast turn of events and wires, the computer would catch up with the request and load the next page whilst I was till frantically re-clicking my last answer.
Therefore....I kinda clicked answers before reading questions.
At first it was all,
"Ohuh, whatever, I'm not really taking it seriously."
Then I got sucked in, and wanted to answer them properly.
At one point, I couldn't even read on of the questions, but I know my answer was,
"To make a few enemies along the way."
Panic!
I mean I know it won't actually do anything but I don't even want an anonymous robot of a survey to think I want ENEMIES!
I don't want to make enemies......Just a little pointer there.....I don't recommend that option in life.
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm sure it works for some, but I've always found that you catch more bees with honey than with vinaigrette and once you've completed that you level up and evolve into Winnie the Pooh. Which is better than being on a few peoples hit lists :)
It had a question asking what I think holds society together...what is the glue for civilization?
Many options to choose of course, and all displayed by immaculate quiz pictures.
I chose the last option. It depicted a cliff and two men (assumed men, no gender bias) reaching for each other, each with a brightly coloured sleeve. Blue and yellow. I thought they looked like Spock and Kirk a bit.
Although I don't actually know who those characters are really, I've only learnt those names by osmosis on fan pages online...
I've already given away so much of my character and we're not even half way through the quiz yet.
Also...I had to pretend I was British just to do this quiz. I couldn't access the site unless I pretended I was British. Oh....story of my life though right, am I right?
*chirp*
My favourite question so far has been the one about how well you, and your unknowns magical personality reacts to insults. The pictures were truly the best on this question.
Really captured the exact emotion.
My answer was a man who looked like he was holding back that type of snorty, scoffing laughter, with one hand raised as if to disbelievingly say,
"Alright mate..."
I'm pleased to see they asked the normal questions last e.g. age, sex, location (joking I'm not in a dodgy chat room), relationship status, children, education, blah...
It made the "test" feel a little bit more real and less like a scratchy horoscope reading.
I have to admit....I was actually a teeny bit nervous clicking "results." It did seem very professional...
I was happy with most. They were different than I expected. For starters I got only 21% 'Conscientiousness'.
And at first I was like,
"Love, I received the conscientiousness award in year 2 or something!" and that I guess this just proves you can't trust everything you read on the internet.
A bit of washing-machine disappointment and bitterness with that. But then (THEN!!) I pressed,
"Continue Reading."
God dammit why!!!
And I found out, like how it can sometimes happen in those scratchy little horoscopes, it gets you exactly right, all the way down to that freckle on your left ankle and your hairstyling products of the day.
Almost annoying, really.
I guess it disregarded my slip up...You know...When I answered the enemy question...the type of answer that would get you automatically put on the naughty list.
But it did give me some things to think about.
So let's discover the real you! I think this is a lovely opportunity to all learn about each other. And ourselves.
Let's all do a personality quiz from a website in a different continent an learn!
Do be warned, as I clicked my mouse of doom over the responses I immediately reconsidered them. And then though, maybe we will never know ourselves completely. I we keep changing and growing and can't make our mind up about which picture out of five looks the messiest and how long it would be before you desperately decided you needed to clean it, then how are we to know the innermost secrets of our personality as this website does?
I think considering I'm not quiet myself this cheery time of....
4:49 am without sleep, it is safe to say that my personality test results would not be considered one of my finest of hours, or whatever. I think I'll go to bed now. And sleep.
The sun will be up soon.
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