The last blog that I wrote had some very interesting reactions.  I had four different people that were mad at me because they were sure that I was talking about them.  So apparently the “sarcastic person” is also the “everyone is always talking about me person” as well, but that is for another blog.  One question that did come up, from a variety of different places, is what then do we do with personality? 

I tend to be very optimistic and have a hard time finding areas that being optimistic can be a negative thing. (Wow that was the dumbest sentence ever) But over the years I have realized that it can be a bad thing.  I can look at a bad situation and find something that is good about it.  But i don’t think that always finding the good is necessarily a positive thing.  When someone is hurting and I am optimistic I have to realize that my optimism can have the tendency to minimize what the other person is feeling.  There are times when sorrow is necessary and people need to go through that.  I have to realize that blind optimism can in fact hurt as much as it helps. 

I think that the key then is knowing the areas that you are likely to fail in.  Introspection is something that most people do not spend much time doing.  I know that there are attributes of personality that we are born with and we will probably always have.  But I still don’t think that is an excuse for crappy behaviour.  In the end we all must be aware of what we do and say and be open to God transforming us, instead of leaning on our personalities and continuing in crappy behaviour.  What do you think?

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