What INFJ means to me.
To me INFJ is not my personal personality, but it is a way of showing and explaining to other people the way I think and the way I process information. It is also a way I can express myself to others, but it is not who I am. Yes on paper or on a test I am an INFJ but in reality I am more than just a personality type, I am me, I am a special, unique, interesting, and intriguing individual, just like you are your very own special, unique, interesting, and intriguing self, and you are who you are.
Let me explain. I am an INFJ but it does not define who I actually am as a person, I am more than a personality type. I am a human being and I like different things than most people, and that is what separates me from other people. For example I may like chocolate and you may not like chocolate, I may like cats and you may like dogs, I may like big cars, trucks, and SUVs and you may like small cars and SUVs, and that is yours and my personal opinion and preferences, and those things are just some of the things that can separate you from the rest.
You may of been brought up by a rich or middle class family, and I may of been brought up by a poor or lower class family, and yet we both may have the same personality, but two totally different characters, and characteristics. I may of had to work a lot when I was younger to help support my family, and you may of had your family support you the whole time while you were in school or had to work very little, Those are some more examples of things that helped you build your very own character, and separate you from the rest of the people in the world.
What I am trying to get at here on this post is that people often get character and personality mixed up. People often think that they are not a certain personality that they were typed to be, because they don't act, think, respond, or feel the same as other people of the same personality type, and that is ok. The reason for this is because no one is exactly the same as anybody else in this world, you may feel the same or act the same towards something, but you may not respond the same or think the same about it, and that is because you both have different perspectives of things, and different characters, and that is the beauty of being a human being.
Since we are all human beings we can't really be put in a specific "box" or "labeled" like most people think you can, and that is because we are humans. we have the ability to be what ever we choose to be and to do what ever we want to do, as long as it aligns with our personal morals, and it is ethical. For example a dog can't be a cat because it is unable to change its self, but it can integrate some of the cats tendencies, but it is not able to be a cat. Just like a bird can't be a fish, or a turtle can't be a rabbit, because they have a lot of different restricting factors, because a bird can drown if it tries to live in water all the time, and a turtle can't hop or run like a rabbit because its legs are to small. But us as human beings, we don't have as much limitations as animals and objects do. We are able to see our limitations and try to work around them, and make them work for us in our favor, unlike animals who don't have the ability to comprehend stuff like we can, or think about things that we can think about. An animal is only able to be an animal unlike with us we are able to be pretty much anything and do pretty much anything we desire.
What I am trying to get at here is that we are human beings who think different, talk different, speak different, look different, feel different, act different, and are able to be different and that we should not hold onto a personality type with a closed brass fist (or a death grip). We should instead hold onto it lightly like you are holding a soft fluffy little kitten. You should not try to be perfect because as humans we are not perfect, and we may never be perfect, and that is perfectly fine with me, because it shows us that we are all the same and that we all always have room for improvement and growth, and that we can always be able to change and make our selves different from other people, but always be the same because we all are humans and non of us are perfect.
So why would you hold onto a personality with a death grip, when you can accept it and hold onto it lightly, and let it be. Besides a personality type should only be used to describe your train of thought, how you interpret and process information, how you respond to things, how react towards something, and it should also be used as a tool for self improvement/self growth.
~Alternative Thinkers "Think Differently".
