The Way I See It

The Way I See It #261

All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a small candle.

— Reza Deghati

Photographer, humanitarian and National Geographic Fellow.

I have seen people that I had known to have the strongest faith, in whatever it was, collapse.  I have been a witness to the fall of the strongest people that I have ever had the honor to know.  Everybody has a weak point, others are just better than the rest at hiding that point from the outside world.  I believe that faith and hope are very similar to courage.  They say courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to overcome your fears.  Faith and hope are not defined by having blind trust, blind belief in what your faith and hope are.  They are defined by the ability to overcome the flaws, the points in your life when they are weak.  Being able to overcome the flaws, the weaknesses, even just once is capable of strengthening your faith, strengthening your resolve to keep that faith.

Those that we believe to be the brightest candles, may be following a blind path.  When the path comes to a fork, they have not had the experience needed to make an educated choice.  The one fork that they meet in their lives is the point in which it either breaks them or makes their faith that much stronger.  Many people that I have met have been following a blind hope, a blind faith, and I have seen the scenario in which that faith breaks them.  But more importantly, I have witnessed the people that come out of it stronger than before.

The Way I See It

It is not always the brightest candle that lasts the longest.

–Sean Doyle

Accurate Personality Quizzes?

I do know many people that actually believe, almost verbatim, what any personality quiz/horoscope/namesake tells them. When they read predetermined horoscopes, like the Chinese horoscope, it could convince them that what it says about them is true, even if it might be the farthest thing from their actual personality. Now that is not to say that it is impossible for the quizzes/horoscopes/namesakes to be correct, if you take the quizzes seriously, they should be right. I for one, have accurate quizzes, and it seems to me, because I have not as yet asked anybody else, that my Chinese horoscope is at least somewhat accurate.

The quiz that i took stated that I was:

-Moderately expressed extravert

-Slightly expressed sensing personality

-Slightly expressed feeling personality

-Slightly expressed perceiving personality

This doesn’t seem too far off of what I am, even if you ask other people around me, that is if they take the question seriously. While i am loud (and obnoxious sometimes =D), I do have the capability to be somewhat empathic towards others. It doesn’t show up that much at school, but at home, with some of my friends, and around nature, I am actually a lot calmer than many people may think I can be.

My name, according to a baby names website, is Sean, which is of Celtic/Gaelic Descent. It is supposed to mean “God is Gracious”. I’m not going to get into the whole “God” thing, so I’m not going to say much about this.

My Chinese Zodiac animal is the Rooster, which is weird, because I had always thought that I fell under the Year of the Dog. It turns out that the Year of the Dog when I saw it was 1994, but that was the year under the Gregorian calendar. Instead, my birthday, which is January 29, falls under the Year of the Rooster, which was January 23, 1993 – February 09, 1994.

Anyway……The horoscope:

Pros:

To Roosters, a difficult task is a challenge.

They dearly love starting controversies

When you challenge them you must be prepared for a long fight. Their stamina is amazing and they win their point at all costs. Even when they are wrong, they will still be right in one way or another!

Roosters can be blunt and brutal

They never remain still

Roosters must learn that some things take time.

Cons(read “Wrong”):

Roosters are organized, precise,and their sharp eyes seek out fine details in everything.

They are perfectionists and leave no room for human error.

They speak their minds with little regard for the feelings of others.

When they set out to accomplish something, they leave no stone unturned.

With these points stated as right or wrong, I would like to point out that there are some of the other points that fit me normally, but I do have periods when I will deviate from said path.

This just goes to show, not all personality quizzes are to be trusted, but are most truthful when you answer sincerely. Just because someone thousands of years ago says that when you are born now, you must be like this. It does not always turn out quite the way that they seemed to have planned.