The only thing that fits me is evolved. I have taken every negative or positive influence that I have experienced or was involved with someone who went through a traumatic change. I have broken bits of the ideas off, incorporate each event to try and improving others thought processes. As any evolving being would do is adjust to the circumstances, and adjust for the margin of errors.

As I have aged, I've become more obstinant about certain things, and much more tolerant of others. My critical thinking has sharpened, yet my attention span is that of a goldfish. I read through the post with much interest, as I enjoy self discovery, and learning what makes people tick. On every one of the OCEAN points, I break the mold. They're very academic; not very well thought through IMHO. But then maybe that's cuz I'm a Gemini.

I think we all fall into those categories, more or less. Achieving balance in accordance to your own needs at the time gives it fluidity. But, as I age, I find myself less fluid and more in a balance with contentment. I feel that I can now be more authentic than the many roles I played, employer, director, engineer, chauffuer, baby sitter, business woman, lover, mother, cousin and friend as we interact with each other. Now life is simple and on my terms as. My grand kids say that I am ferule. I have been ferule all of my life and enjoy all the love and pleasure I can exchange with all living beings who's path I am honored to walk, if only for a little while.

We've likely all heard the phrase "works in progress". That's how I feel about myself - especially when I look back.

While my basic core remains the same, I'm continually tweaking, trying new ways of going through the world, and exposing myself to enough that hopefully I gain more wisdom !

I think more people are constantly in flux, than not - for better or worse.

I was raised in Midwestern Ohio among the corn and winter wheat. I was very naive. I got married, moved to PA, and after a short period of time, a spiritual path opened for me. I have never been the other person since. My personalities, my ethics, my morals, all changed. So onward I go.

im not the same but sometimes i wish i was, sometimes im glad ive changed

I am not the person I once was, thankfully, and hopefully, not the person I will become.

I honestly don't think I'm the same person I was 10 minutes ago. Who you are and how you react to things has so much to do with your environment and other things we can't control. We don't have as much control as we think we do.

I don't think we're the same person moment to moment, but very similar (usually). As we change, slowly, imperceptibly day to day, we change by leaps and bounds decade to decade. I think of it like evolution, where one generation to the next is very similar but a hundred or a thousand generations can be drastically different. There's still an influence of some sort, but there might be no direct resemblance. I saw a video that explained what I've been thinking in terms of chainmail: we gradually keep adding to one end, and links get removed from the other, so at some point it's nearly all new, but never an abrupt change.

Sam Harris says the self is a process rather than a static entity and I'll go along with that, but I think we grow into ourselves. The adolescent me was as much me as I am today, but there are stark differences.

I've changed quite a lot since my teen years and strive to change everyday. If you aren't changing/growing, you're stuck.

I've changed so much in my life, I think living is change. I'm much more direct now than I ever was, and more sure of what I do want or will not tolerate. I like me better now too.

I think age gives more dimensions to each trait if that makes sense. Understanding what to be modest about and what not to can change a person. I know I've changed over time but I don't know if it's my corest of traits but how I apply them and when I withhold them.

It seems that my character is the same from when I was a young child, but the rest of me is still evolving with every experience. That won't stop until I am dead.

It seems that my character is the same from when I was a young child, but the rest of me is still evolving with every experience. That won't stop until I am dead.

I read the post, and scolled thru the comments. At first my mind buzzed and I was thinking my comment would be a long tale of how I changed and coped along the way. As tho to justify my means of getting here and then this - for the most part have stayed true to myself. Not so long but it says enuff.

I believe the only constant in life is change. We humans are capable of radical change almost instantaneously. Personally, although my values are basically the same as they were in my youth, my abilities for empathy, analysis and expression have grown incredibly. I'm looking forward to discovering more about what I don't know about myself!

We're always changing, but why dwell on it. Nostalgia is a thing of the past. LOL

I used to Chase Tail as if it was going Out of Style. Not anymore... Content with the Memories and still in touch 20 years later. I am Happy how things have turn out. I still am Enamored by the Feminine Sex. Maybe Now I Am Ready to Surrender!!!! MAYBE.

Yup, when I was diagnosed with ADHD and began treatment I became LESS of an asshole but still an asshole.