Sharyl West Loeung: Easter, Personality Tests, and Community

Easter, Personality Tests, and Community

Myers-Briggs doesn't know what to do with me. I can retake the test back to back days, and have completely different results. There are just several of the "rational" and "irrational" traits as Carl Jung describes them that I seem to be quite prone to switching between depending on the situation and my general disposition at the time.It really doesn't take any major shift, I just tend to see several possibilities in the answer choices.The E/I, extrovert/introvert function, is no exception. I easily, to my blessing or curse, sit on the fence particularly when I am operating in wholeness, in my healthiest self (see the Birkman for that analysis). When this is not the case I tend to plummet to one extreme or the other,which lately for me has meant being more of an "I," fittingly because in this state "I" tend to be the only one that matters.

Anyway all that to say this weekend, when someone innocently said " It is really late notice and I am sure you already have plans..." something instantly clicked inside of me before I had even heard what the offer was. I realized how very sad it was that I was on the brink of spending Easter in isolation and had somehow thought that would be OK. Last 4th of July I actively sought out something to do with people, but Easter, the pinnacle of the Christian calendar, and I wanted to spend it alone? Certainly many a Sabbath is necessarily spent quietly in one's home resting and relaxing, but Easter is a day for celebration WITH each other. I talk about community openly, but I also openly admit I don't always like practicing it. Sometimes it just doesn't come naturally. So thank you someone for saving my Easter, and may the Easter Bunny hide the Myers-Briggs somewhere no one will find it.

Easter, Personality Tests, and Community

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