Which category do you think you fall into?

[Pensive]

1: Those who make things happen.
2: Those who watch things happen.
3: Those who wonder what happened.

I might be a part of the first two but the last one seems to fit me the most. Is it alarming? How about you?

[LadyW]

Hmm...
A mixture of 2 and 3 with a hint of 1

[Anza]

Heavy on the 1
A little of the 3

[dramasnot6]

Very much 1...Definetly 1. I watch things a lot in order to accomplish 1.

[pussnboots]

I would break it down as follows:

30% - make things happen
35% - watch what happens
35% - wondered what happened

[Virgil]

Great thougt for a thread Pensy, and good approach Pussnboots. I think everyone has elements of all three. I would say I'm

40% - make things happen
35% - watch what happens
25% - wondered what happened

[symphony]

I'm usually too impatient to watch. So mostly i either impatiently wonder (never making the effort to actually find out) and often like to go put my own hand in matters instead of my nose.

So,
40% - make things happen
10% - watch what happens
50% - wondered what happened

[1n50mn14]

100% number one. Indisputably so.

[LadyWentworth]

I am definitely #1.
Then something always magically goes wrong and then I become #3!

[Dori]

20.33285% - make things happen
24.51301% - watch what happens
55.15414% - wondered what happened

:D

[LadyW]

20.33285% - make things happen
24.51301% - watch what happens
55.15414% - wondered what happened
:D

Ha ha :D
So typically precise...
You little maths geek ;)

[Dori]

Ha ha :D
So typically precise...
You little maths geek ;)

Yes I am, and I'm proud of it! :p

I've always wondered: why do Europeans refer to mathematics as "maths" while Americans refer to it as "math"? I think "maths" seems unnatural (when you say it).

[LadyW]

I've always wondered: why do Europeans refer to mathematics as "maths" while Americans refer to it as "math"? I think "maths" seems unnatural (when you say it).

:banana: Because we're all strange! :banana:

[aabbcc]

I've always wondered: why do Europeans refer to mathematics as "maths" while Americans refer to it as "math"? I think "maths" seems unnatural (when you say it).
Because it is mathematics, so it gets shorted to maths. I find 'math' very innatural myself, but then again, I am not a native speaker.

As for the question about the thread, I watch things happen. Of course I am a mixture of the three, but generally #2. As, slow observer of life. Somebody who is next to an event, but does not really take part in it; and even whilst I am in the centre of happenings, I behave as if I was not, and I feel as if I was not.

[toni]

More on number 2 and 3 but constantly gathering courage to become number 1.

[blazeofglory]

1: Those who make things happen.
2: Those who watch things happen.
3: Those who wonder what happened.

I might be a part of the first two but the last one seems to fit me the most. Is it alarming? How about you?

I belong to the second one.

[AtomicCafe1]

I'm definitely a wonderer.

[Annamariah]

I don't watch things happen, though I wait for them to happen. They just don't happen, or if they do, I never see it happening.

So eventually I try to make things happen, don't really succeed and then later I wonder what on earth actually DID happen :eek:

[ntropyincarnate]

40% watch things happen
60% wonder what happened

bad...

[Bakiryu]

More of a 2, I like to ponder stuff and maybe some of 3.
but working to become a 1.

[AuntShecky]

How about a #4 Those who watch what happens and then write about it?

[Erichtho]

Number 2 - I watch things happen, am an observer of my own life and think about what else could have happened even before a final path is chosen. Often I have the feeling to see my life just in a kind of retrospection instead of actually living it. I'm quite comfortable with that.

[dramasnot6]

More on number 2 and 3 but constantly gathering courage to become number 1.

Go Toni!
And Baki!!

[Cailin]

#2 and a bit of #3. Striving to be #1

[ampoule]

1: Those who make things happen.
2: Those who watch things happen.
3: Those who wonder what happened.

2 I am a quiet, thoughtful observer
4 I like this addition, Aunt Shecky. By writing or drawing what I have observed, I am moved to....
1 I don't fret over getting things done, but I certainly like to get things started
3 Oh yes, I have certainly been broadsided a cuppla times

[formality hater]

I think I linger somewhere between no.2 and 3!

[kandaurov]

0% no.1
100% no.2
0% no.3

and no regrets :)

[bazarov]

1: Those who make things happen.
2: Those who watch things happen.
3: Those who wonder what happened.



Definitely 2, with high percent of guessing what will happen. I enjoy it!

[Granny5]

How about a #4 Those who watch what happens and then write about it?

At work I'm 75% #1 and 25% #2
At home I'm about 100% #3
In my dreams I'm #4 :lol:

[lucidnightmares]

for me it`s an obvious 3, which is kind of startling, i always thought of myself as someone who was always there just watching, but i guess iv`e just been wondering.

[Shalot]

I watch things happen, can't understand what just went on, and then wonder, "What just happened?"

Sometimes I make things happen, but not often. In the past, that activity has always drawn the wrong kind of attention.

[Gadget Girl]

1: Those who make things happen.
2: Those who watch things happen.
3: Those who wonder what happened.

Hmm, probably the mixture of all these...

[islandclimber]

so I start out making things happen, than fall off the horse somewhere along the line, and by the end I'm sitting in the rubble of what I started wondering what on earth happened... or something like that...

[PeterL]

It varies from time to time and from one sphere of activity to another, and there are other, related, possible actions: Train and/or coach others to do thing, then criticize their activity. Observe and comment on the actions of others. Plan actions for future action by oneself or others. Contemplate whether anything has actually happened. Command others to do something for no good reason. There are many other possibilities.

[RJbibliophil]

1 in daily/small things, 2 in large things over which I have no control

[sprinks]

Well I'd mostly be #1, but the only thing is that people take on from what I made happen and they get credit for it, so I end up being #2 and #3, watching what happened and wondering what happened because I was the one that MADE IT HAPPEN!

[johann cruyff]

I'm too lazy to be number 1,and too impatient to be number 2,so...yes,I'd say I wonder what happened.

[Sir Bartholomew]

2: Those who watch things happen.