Seeing The Big Picture

Do you remember as a child how excited you got when you received a new toy as  a birthday’s present? Some of you ripped open the box the quickest way possible, played with the toy like nobody business and when you bored, you just put it away and hate to see it again .  Others read the instruction behind the box first, carefully opened the box and try as careful as possible not to ‘hurt’ the box, play with the toy nicely and you keep your toy in the safest place so nobody can touch your precious toy .  Remember when your nasty little brother suddenly grabbed your toy away from you and he immediately claimed that it is his toy.  What would you do? Well, some of you will cry and others will just let their toy being confiscated by others and play with other toys like nothing happened.  Does one of these characters sound like you?

Are you the Popular Sanguine (The Playful Master) who played with your toy excitedly and easily get bored?

Or, the Perfect Melancholy (D’Thinker) who read the instructions first, analyze the toy before you can even play with it?

Or the Powerful Choleric (The Action Figure) who love taking other people toy and take control whenever you feel you can or you want to?

Or the Peaceful Phlegmatic (The Pacifier) who rather stay away from trouble and try to live a simple non-troublesome life?

Whatever your character is, each and everyone of you is unique.  Our character and personality makes us special.  GOD created us with different personality so that we can learn from each other about the different we may have.  The world will be a chaos if everyone has the same personality trait.  Imagine the world where everyone try to control and everyone wants to be in charge of anything, we will live in a manipulating world try to win over power.

That’s why when we look back at the differences we had, it’s like putting together a puzzle especially when we face a working life nowadays.  Some people come in hoping to have fun; some play strict by the rules and inflexible; some tell everyone else what to do, even if there are not in charge; and some will compromise consistently if it will avoid conflict.  The question is, how can we ever understand all of these various personalities?

To answer that question, we must first answer this important question: Who Am I?  Am I a Popular Sanguine? Or Perfect Melancholy? Or is it possible that I might be the Powerful Choleric? Or would I love to settle as the Peaceful Phlegmatic?  Next, after we know who we are, it is very important to accept other personalities as it were.  Remember you can’t expect everyone to be like you.  Accept others differences and start to look people from the bright positive angle.  That way you will understand why people do things differently.

When GOD created humanity to express the four basic personalities, GOD also put that expression when creating our precious heart in our body.  Within our heart there are four chambers.  Two of these are receiving chambers (auricles), corresponding to the two introverted introspective personalities, Melancholy & Phlegmatic.  The other two are pumping chambers (ventricles) much like the extroverted driven personalities, Sanguine & Choleric.  Isn’t it amazing?

Just as the four heart chambers are essential to balanced, well-functioning circulatory system, and therefore to biological life itself, the four personalities are essential to well-balanced human condition.