How much has your personality changed in the past few years?

Question

I've been in college the last four years....and I can say that from the time when I started to now, my personality has changed in almost every way possible....Sometimes, it's alienating.

Answer 1

yeah for sure, i'm a much stronger person than i was 2 years ago and i will stand up more for what i believe. I am sick of trying to make everyone else happy

Answer 2

Hi!

Not sure that my underlying personality has changed. I've grown, learned new things, perhaps thought in new directions and sung different songs, but I can trace the present me back to the boy I was.

The reason I put it like this is that one of the things I do is go into schools to give motivation talks to assemlies and classes. I run around from the energy of one pupil to that of another, get whole groups up to help and leave just one as the audiance and then suddenly reversing their role. Using magic, colour, strange artefacts from the past, I urge young people to define their own reality, be the best they can and show how working in partnership with whole networks can bring out their own deeper talents and fulfil their ambitions more fully than trying to go it alone. Everyone has a gift to bring to the sharing place. No one is useless.

Teachers often tell me that my approach is brilliant and that I certainly know how to make children think. Will I come back next year?

I always remind them that when I was a child, I would have been their worse nightmare in a class setting.

I have been diagnosed as having one of those ways of being that teachers often find challenging in the sit down and learn classroom scenario and which children are often excluded from mainstream education for. The very energy and thirst for new information that made me seem a "behavioral disordered" child is the very thing that teachers seek in the adult me to teach their own classes.

So, my personality has developed but not changed. Perhaps I've harnessed it better.

Good question.

Good wishes.

Answer 3

i do not know if it is a good thing or a bad thing but, i have changed drastically in these last 2 years. i have stopped trusting almost everyone and have began to care less about the feelings of others. my point of views have also changed quite a bit. people other than my family have become completely irrelevant to me. this was of thinking has brought me to open my eyes and see life for what it is. i dropped three people who i once considered great friends because i saw there real personalities. i no longer feel like i need to define myself with affiliation to other people. i am still just 16 so my views might change later on but as for now, i actually like my opinions.

Answer 4

Hmm, good question! I'm only in high school. I started in public school in 7th grade (went to a private school before that) and I was like THE shyest person you could ever meet. I kick myself over and over again just wondering why the heck I couldn't just TALK to people. In 8th grade I was a bit more outgoing. I was reading a notebook that me and my bestfriend had a few weeks ago, and it seems like I was actually a bit popular that year. Not as popular as the cheerleaders, of course. But I talked to a lot of the jocks and stuff. But I still kick myself for being a loser that year, because I had a chance at my first boyfriend and totally screwed it up because I basically suck at confrontation and communication! But now I don't feel so bad because he turned out to be a shallow player. Then last year (9th grade) totally sucked. I still had my major confrontation problem. My friend went off getting drunk and bragging about it, and I still didn't have the courage to tell her to her face how I really felt about her. Instead I just totally ignored her IMs and phone calls and hoped we'd just fade away. I was more outgoing that year, but I still felt like I wasn't myself. I went along with what everyone else wore and said. THIS YEAR, things are going to change. I'm going to be 110% me. I really hope I can tell my "friend" how I really feel about her, and I hope I can be more outgoing and REAL. So I guess I've changed from being myself, to being who everyone else wanted me to be, to being myself again.

Answer 5

I think that our life goes in stages..we do change and we grow. There is nothing wrong with this.! Our basics stay the same, but our views and the way we may look at life changes. That's supposed to happen. We evolve, we stop being children and we grow up. It's not so much your personality as your view on life...you are just growing...Enjoy it! There is so much to learn and to look forward too...Take one day at a time and just know that it is a good thing to feel different than when you were in high school.

Answer 6

I've often suspected that my self-confidence has dropped over the years. Not sure why, but I just seem to remember being a lot more assertive at one time than I am now. On the plus side I tend to have much better control of my temper nowadays than I used to.

Answer 7

I used to be optimistic, happy, focused and a beleiver in the idea that women want sensitivity.
Now I am pessimistic, cynical, not able to focus at all, and I understand that sensitivty desire is ridiculous. I'm still happy, but now I'm happy due to dark humor.
Yup, sophomore year gave me a dark personality, made me change my views on relationships, and after that change, gave me two girlfriends.
Junior year messed me up real good by depriving me of sleep and causing me to lose my ability t focus. And making me even darker.

Answer 8

it'd be too long to type out, but for the most part, i've gotten to the point where i can accept most of the things i am a part of. it sounds weird, but it was harder for me than most people for whatever reason. I'm better able to just kind of... accept. Well, that and a few other things. I'm a little more outgoing, my sarcastic side shows a little more (which kind of sucks when done at the wrong time) but yeah. i mean people change all the time, but you don't always realize it. i guess i'm just one of those people at the moment.

Answer 9

Mine has changed a lot. A divorce will do that to you. I am much happier and calmer. Just a better person all the way around. It happens as we grow in life and have those many life altering experiences.

Answer 10

I've changed about 90% of who I am in just the past 6 months. It really is crazy, but everything I've done has been a mistake that I've learned from, and it's only making me stronger.