#blogtober Week Two- Personality Types!

One of my childhood best friends is a social worker, and her husband is a Psychologist. A few years ago at Christmas, she brought home the Meyers Briggs personality test book, and we took turns learning about our personality types. I love things like this- I totally follow horoscopes and I KNOW I'm a total Cancer, so I was all over the personality test as well. The first time I took the test, my results showed that I was an ENFJ- Extrovert, Intuitive, Feeling, Judging. I felt like it was pretty accurate. Over the years I've taken it a few more times, just to see where things fall, and somehow I've morphed into an INFJ- instead of being an extrovert, I'm now an introvert? How does that make sense? So when I saw today's blogtober topic, I was excited to retake this test and see if my personality has morphed yet again.

Monday, September 9: Take this short personality test and respond to your results. 

What do you know- still an introvert. I think a lot of that has to do with being in a "new" place and still not being totally comfortable in my surroundings. I also feel that as I age, I have started to really value having a few close friendships, rather than a large group of acquaintances. Moving in with J has definitely made me less interested in going out and socializing- which I can never decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing. We're both homebodies (me to a much more extreme degree than him) and on weekends I often feel like: why would I go out when I can stay here and hang out with my favorite person in the comfort of our own home? 

A couple of things really jumped out at me in the description. 

"...Strongly humanitarian in outlook, INFJs tend to be idealists, and because of their J preference for closure and completion, they are generally "doers" as well as dreamers."

I am, above probably all other things, a dreamer. I've always had a knack for writing, and spend a LOT of time just imaging different scenarios in my head. Every now and then, I think I'm psychic because I will imagine a conversation, or situation happening, and then it later occurs. More likely I just THINK all the time and imagine every possible outcome for anything, so some of it is BOUND to happen. Even though I am really sarcastic and can come off as pessimistic, at the end of of the day I truly want to believe that all people are good. 

"...INFJs are deeply concerned about their relations with individuals as well as the state of humanity at large(...)INFJs are true introverts, who can only be emotionally intimate and fulfilled with a chosen few from among their long-term friends, family, or obvious "soul mates."

When I first moved to Atlanta, before I met Mal, I was MISERABLE. I was so happy to finally be with J full time, and not have to leave after a weekend and go back to my life in Chicago. But I missed having a strong emotional connection with someone who wasn't my boyfriend. I needed "that friend" who I could call in the middle of the night crying, who would not get annoyed at me texting them EVERY DAY to hang out. I had a lot of acquaintances  because I tried to get out and meet people. But not having that connection with someone made me feel very, very lonely. The moral of the story? Mal- don't ever leave me. 

After reading this, I definitely feel like it's accurate. INFJ might be the most emo personality type- but I accepted that about myself long ago. I care about other people a lot, and that will never change. Making other people happy makes me happy. And as Beyonce AND my boy Jim Henson both said (in different words of course), I just want to leave the world a little better place than when I entered it. 

You think it's a coincidence that my two idols basically have (had- RIP Jim) the same life motto? No way, Jose. What's your personality type? Do you think it's correct?