This is about you, Yes, you!

Hello dear reader and welcome to my blog, I am confident you will like it here.  I believe this because I believe that I know you well.  Allow me to sum you up with eloquence:

You are a person prone to bouts of self-examination.  You like to show a calm, self-assured fluid kind of stability (but because this is self-consciously created, it will create bouts of frustrated silliness and a delight in extremes, or at least a delight in being seen to be extreme). You most easily recognise this control in how you are with people around you. You have learned to protect yourself by keeping people at bay. Because in the past you have learned to be disappointed by people, you instinctively keep people at arms’ length, until you decide they are allowed over that magic line into your group of close friends.  However, once across that line, the problem is that an emotional dependency kicks in which leaves you feeling very hurt or rejected if it appears that they have betrayed that status.

Because you are prone to self-examination, you will be aware of these traits. However, you are unusually able to examine even that self-examination, which means that you have become concerned about what the real you is. You have become all too aware of façades, of sides of yourself which you present to the world, and you wonder if you have lost touch with the real and spontaneous you.

You set high standards for yourself, though, and in many ways are a bit of a perfectionist. The problem is, though, that it means you often don’t get stuff done, because you are frustrated by the idea of mediocrity and are wearied by the idea of starting something afresh. However, once your brain is engaged you’ll find yourself sailing. Very much this will likely lead to you having considered writing a novel or some such, but a fear that you won’t be able to achieve quite what you want stops you from getting on with it. But you have a real vision for things, which others fall short of. Particularly in your academic/college situation, you are currently fighting against restraints upon your desire to express yourself freely.

Well dear reader that certainly was fun and most of you will now be possibly creeped out by how accurately I have described you.The reality however is that I was not describing you, I was describing every person that ever lived and is likely to live, everything written above is generic and applies to everyone.  What you have read is an excerpt redacted from a cold reading text originally brought to my attention by the fabulous Mr Derren Brown.

What I want you to take away from this post, more than any self help book etc can give you, is the realisation that despite the fact that there are some 7 billion of us on this planet we are not as unique as we like to think.  We all share the same problems, the same setbacks, the same anxieties and to an extent the same fears, above all else we all succumb to procrastination at some point in our lives where we put off doing what we really want to do, for whatever reason that may be.

Don't be so hard on yourself, or on others.  If you really want to know how someone feels just put yourself in that situation and think whatever you would think.  We all share the same thoughts, it is how we act on them that defines who we are, and ultimately where we end up.

If you found this post interesting and would like to know more then I would encourage you to read Derren Brown's Tricks Of The Mind.