What Is The Personality?

[isis]

Speaking of being a little girl, when I was younger, I always startled myself because of my seeming lack of personality. I felt pretty broken for a long time because of it. It's not that I was just dull (though I'm sure some thought I was), nearly without fail, I would take on the personality of others who I was around. The more time I spent around a person, the more I behaved like them. Now, older and with a wider perspective, I can see that one of my "gifts" is being a constant mirror to others - mostly, it seems, as a means to offer comfort with personality mirroring. It's also super easy to communicate with people when you speak their language - quirks and all. Accents, slang, facial expressions, and even the way I laugh has always been totally fluid and dependent on who captivated most of my time. Now that I know this can be used as a service, I just try to embrace it and go with the flow. Sometimes that means I too readily absorb distortions/blockages of others - I try to recognize when this happens and not be embarrassed when I behave in what seems like a strange way.

haha. i've encountered lots of people that would do that - some worse than others. i caught myself doing it on occasion too. i think it's a very common thing.

& i still find myself doing it sometimes to this day. if i like something enough i pick it up & it becomes a part of my ever-transforming personality.