I have a lot of character development to go through because I'm not where I quite want to be yet but I'm doing my best.
For the last prompt of the week, we'd be talking about ourselves, those attributes we feel we have that people can emulate and what makes us stand out so that someone out there can regard us as a role model.
I'm going to try my possible best not to sound like a narcissist in this post but we're asked them talk about ourselves. Like I said earlier, I have a lot of character development to go through but not withstanding, I'm not all that bad.
I take life easy, you know, being chill. I always hide this under the shadow of being a lazy person but the truth is I'm really love the simple life and so I try to take things chill. I don't throw tantrums and I try not to react harshly to certain situations.
Back in my first year in the university, someone told me something that has stuck with me even till now. The story was something happened with the department's generator and I was in charge. We were having a gathering and the generator got stolen. I started to panic. The most important thing at that time was getting power by any means. I was lost until and older colleague said,
"We don't react to problems, we respond to them" and in that moment, I understood the assignment.
His words stuck with me and help me through my days in school. Sometimes I'm so calm at certain terrible situations, it makes people uneasy, like "why isn't he nervous? don't we have the same problem?"
I feel like most people want be like that, to be chill, I feel that's a character people want to have.
I am a people person
I fit in well with everybody. My friends ask me how I do it and I tell them it's simple, be yourself. We try to be someone we're not in hopes that people will like us more.
I've noticed something (or I think I have). When people sense you're a pretender, they tend to build this wall around you subconsciously. The way I am, I had to learn. I was a people pleaser but thank God that's over. Now I just go with the flow and whoever doesn't like me can move on.
You should see me at parties, everybody's friend even if we just met. This type of attitude is what helps you get connections, not like I'm doing it for that but I mean if it comes with it, why not take it.
You can trust me
I hold a lot of people's money for them because I have proven myself to be trustworthy in the past. I love it that people can trust me. My mother always said,
"If you're dishonest, you'll attract dishonest people too"
There's some truth to that, a liar will always hang around liars because truthful people will never want to be in their midst, same goes for trust and dishonesty. I never want anything to taint my good name.
These are the few characters I can think of, I'm sure I have lots many that I haven't discovered yet or I'm just clearly not aware of but I hope this gives an insight to what I'm like.
That's it for this post, thanks for stopping by, see you next week.