Tuesday, 4 December 2012

People Pleaser


An issue that I struggle with is people pleasing. I want to make everyone happy. not through any demands of others, I just put a lot of pressure on myself to make people feel welcome and at ease. I guess maybe that is because that is the treatment I would like others to show me. (Concern, Care and Manners, Ludicrous I know..) I guess in a lot of ways I'm a fairly old fashioned person. I like having friends over for drinks or for meals. I like entertaining and being a host. I love Food and Wine and sharing those things with people I care about. There is (at least) one flaws with this personality type.
Being a Type A person causes you to clash greatly with other Type A people. Let me refer to us as Hosts (viewing our personality type as the virus. think Zombie Infection) for the sake of a small, overly imaginative girl, and her flair for the dramat argument. Unlike Zombies who are apparently unaware of each other, Type A Hosts directly interact (for the most part unsuccessfully.) Being aware of this issue allows some of us to realize we need to take a back seat sometimes, and Let someone else play host. For the most part, it merely forces host's to speak over each other, cut each other off in conversations, and perform other less than courteous gestures that leave other Hosts with a negative impression of them. 
But Knowledge is power!
If you're out at a party and you feel like you're talking too much, or being too loud, you probably are. Take a step back and listen to what other people have to say for awhile. This is not to say that you cannot take part in the conversation, simply that it's only fair to keep everything in moderation. I firmly believe that if we all try to be more self aware that world would be a much better place.

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