If you could change something about your personality, what would it be? Or are you satisfied with the way you are?

Mostly I am satisfied with who I am. I am pretty happy with who I am as a person. I think I am a good person but if I was to change one thing about my personality I wish I was more gregarious and did better with meeting people for the first time.

I have so much trouble with small talk and I am not sure why...I think I just get bored or maybe I just like to listen but I have a hard time opening up when I meet new people. I have friends who you could put in a crowd of strangers and they would work the room and know everyone within no time. I could never do that.

I guess that is why I am attracted to those type people as friends. Definitely something I admire when I see someone who has that skill.

I think I'd like to be a little less "driven". My mind never stops and I'm always researching something or reading something, or watching a documentary. Its like I'm driven to absorb all the information in the world that I can, and I'm not sure why.

Now I love my brain and how it works, lol, but sometimes I envy the people that could care less about the meaning of a new word they see somewhere, and don't lay awake pondering koans. They say ignorance is bliss, and I think not knowing or caring if you are ignorant would be even more blissful. Perhaps a lot less fun, though, so I'm usually glad that I'm the way I am..

Well, maybe one thing... I am pretty much satisfied with my personality, but I do have at least one trait I would like to change. I consider myself a very helpful person. It seems I can easily help someone else before I help my self, so consequently, I have difficulty in telling people 'NO.' This ends to make me "passive aggressive.

" I don't like this part of my personality. I would much rather just tell a person straight out "No, I can't help you." PMStern's Recommendations Overcoming Passive-Aggression: How to Stop dden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career and Happiness Amazon List Price: $15.95 Used from: $8.25 Average Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 (based on 12 reviews) What About Me, What Do I Want?

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My fear of change I am thinking of so many things I would like to change. But if I have to choose one, it would be my fear of new things, initially that is. Whenever I have to make a change in my life, until I am well adapted to this new change, initally I get very frightenend.

For instance, when I began college freshman year this was my first time in a new environment (like it is for many) and I was scared to leave home and enter a world that was completely unknown to me. After the first week I was fine (actually better than fine, I loved it! ) but as fall semester freshman year got closer and closer and as the summer came closer and closer to an end, the fear of moving away from home and to an environment where I knew no one scared me so much.

Another good example is when my father, more or less, told me I had to move out (this is an entirely other story as to why he did). So my only option was to move in with my boyfriend at the time. Now he didn't have his own place.

He was living with his parents (the basement was almost like an apartment all on it's own). I remember I was almost hysterically crying as we were driving away from my dads's, with my boyfriend's SUV all packed up with my stuff. But this time, as opposed to going off to college, something in my gut told me living with my boyfriend (with his dysfunctional family) was going to be no good.

And my gut was right. Me moving in with him was the beginning of our downfall. But I realized way after that this guy was and still is a pompous, and stuck up person (I am trying to use the nicest words here possible).

I am going through a career change right now. To make a long story short, I am not cut out for the corporate world. When I say corporate world I mean working in New York City (I live right outside NYC) for a huge giant corporation.

The bad thing here is my resume reflects all corporate experience. So right now I am having quite a difficult time figuring out what is my next step. So coming to this decision, which I have to make VERY soon (my husband can't be the only one bringing in money) is making me very scared.

A better way of saying this is I am afraid to say yes or no to anything. (At the moment, even if I don't figure out what I want to do career wise, I will be starting a part time job very soon, because like I said we need the money). But just the thought of, if needed, going back to school, taking a test to get into school, and starting all over with a career is scary to me.

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1 ChicagoTRS, regarding your answer "Mostly I am satisfied with who I am. " I wish I was, good for you! .

ChicagoTRS, regarding your answer "Mostly I am satisfied with who I am. " I wish I was, good for you!

" "I cannot change my aol default personality. I get as far expressions. Where does it show,changing default personality?

" "Is it possible to have a relationship with someone you have already broken up with twice? Do people ever really change?" "should people change for others? " "What traits do you like in people, personality-wise?

" "how many people change?" "Is it possible not to have a personality?

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I cannot change my aol default personality. I get as far expressions. Where does it show,changing default personality?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.