Imported Poems

As some of you know, psychology is a hobby (passion?) of mine. I've been doing some research/refresher on the topic and found this site enlightening (check yourselves out - I know reading about me is boring). The diagram of my psyche is dead-on:

http://www.9types.com/epd/4.html

HEALTHY LOOP:
Need for self-understanding -> examine self -> understand themselves -> Need for self-understanding

UNHEALTHY LOOP:
Fear of being defective -> indulge in fantasy -> understand themselves -> Fear of being defective

Romantics have sensitive feelings and are warm and perceptive.

These descriptions of How to Get Along With Me is also dead on:

*Give me plenty of compliments. They mean a lot to me.
*Be a supportive friend or partner. Help me to learn to love and value myself.
*Respect me for my special gifts of intuition and vision.
*Though I don't always want to be cheered up when I'm feeling melancholy, I sometimes like to have someone lighten me up a little.
*Don't tell me I'm too sensitive or that I'm overreacting!

What I Like About Being a Four

*my ability to find meaning in life and to experience feeling at a deep level
*my ability to establish warm connections with people
*admiring what is noble, truthful, and beautiful in life
*my creativity, intuition, and sense of humor
*being unique and being seen as unique by others
*having aesthetic sensibilities
*being able to easily pick up the feelings of people around me

What's Hard About Being a Four

*experiencing dark moods of emptiness and despair
*feelings of self-hatred and shame; believing I don't deserve to be loved
*feeling guilty when I disappoint people
*feeling hurt or attacked when someone misundertands me
*expecting too much from myself and life
*fearing being abandoned
*obsessing over resentments
*longing for what I don't have

Fours as Children Often

*have active imaginations: play creatively alone or organize playmates in original game s
*are very sensitive
*feel that they don't fit in
*believe they are missing something that other people have
*attach themselves to idealized teachers, heroes, artists, etc.
*become antiauthoritarian or rebellious when criticized or not understood
*feel lonely or abandoned (perhaps as a result of a death or their parents' divorce)