Motivations of the core
Enneagram 7
To not settle with less than you deserve, to do as you wish, to not be restricted. The 7 looks up at the sky and recognizes its their limit, nothing less will do, nothing less is permissible. Heaven above might as well exist, and no god will keep those gates locked. The 7 will rattle, kick, punch, and eventually jump any fence because the grass is always greener on the other side.
Anywhere but whats now. That is the goal. That is the idea that brings the possibility of more of everything. Desperation to experience something else, the thing that others are experiencing, the great thing that everyone is talking about. Anywhere but here, because everything thats to see has been seen. All the wonder has been dried up to a single focused aching mass of what disguises itself as boredom. In reality, its not that fairy tale, its not that fun, its disappointment.
You've jumped the closed gates of heaven only to find yourself locked outside again. The 7 is always locked outside, always missing out, but desperately trying to get in and find what it has been missing.
Yet to be locked out is better than to be locked in a cage of ones own making. To a 7 forcing yourself into a routine, into a stale life, into the sobriety of the real world, would be like checking themselves into their personalized hell. The type is rejected by heaven itself, but whats so bad about that? Whats so terrible about feeling good? To be with a full stomach and a content heart? Isn't it a human right to live as you please? The 7 rejects punishment and suffering. They were not put on this earth to fade away miserably according to someone's standard, but how?
How can one escape the dryness of their throat when they swallow, the burning in their stomach, or the pulsing at the back of their head? To a 7, the burning in their stomach is the anticipation of a meal they can't wait to eat. To a 7, the pulsing at the back of their head is but a temporary buzz before their next shot of tequila. To a 7, the dryness of their throat is the joy of refreshment soon to come.
The ability to rewrite their reality into something exciting, fun and worth living for is what gives the 7 the strength to continue. To take things lighty, is to live like a 7. To embrace silliness and to reject the serious nature of life, is to live like a 7. Everything can be transformed from a frown into a smile if you turn it upside down, all you need to do is stand on your hands and not think too hard about it. Don't confine yourself to the boring and think outside of the old shoebox of critical thought