Personalities

God created every single one of us as individuals, with our own looks, our own strengths, and our own personalities.

Every single persons personality is so hugely different it's beyond our comprehension (bet you havn't heard that one very often). But these days there are so many personality tests and categories that group people together in different groups. I used to love personality tests, because they were always so true about me. Every single time I would think 'yeah, I am this and this type of person', and I would go around thinking that there are lots of other people like me out there. But then the other day I realised how much I don't like the thought of being the same as so many other people. So I started thinking about these peronality groupings and what the bible says about our individuality. It just didn't fit for me. Then today, I was thinking about how sometimes people find it so hard to understand me, and I said to myself 'If I'm supposedly grouped into a particular personality type, then why do people find it hard to understand me? I mean, the personality descriptions are so small and simple!'

Since then, after having thought about it rather a lot, I came to a conclusion of sorts. I realised that, even though I might fit some personality types perfectly, I'm not that at all! Because although I show most of those certain characteristics, I have so many hundreds more of them that correspond to other "personality types".

People's personalities cannot be grouped and understood by some characteristics that they show, because they are far, far more complex than that. If you want to learn about or understand a person and their personality, you're not going to be able to do it by reading a description of their personality type, or even some things you have seen them do. You will need to watch them, interact with them, and be as perceptive as possible into the way they act, move, talk, and respond to any kind of situation. You will never be able to understand everything about someone's personality unless you do ever single activity in this world and get into ever situation that could happen. That is, of course, impossible. But the point I'm trying to get across is the fact the more time you spend with a particular person, or watching a particular person in different situations, the more you will be able to understand about their personality.

NOTE: If my blogs are getting too confusing or hard to understand, please please let me know, so I can try and make them a bit less 'deep'.