What's Your Temperment? Here's Mine for the Ecotrain QOTW

Ecotrain's Question for this week - Join in here: https://steemit.com/ecotrain/@eco-alex/what-s-your-temperament-the-ecotrain-question-of-the-week-is-back

"Describe in your own words what Temperament means to you, and what your own temperament is like. Share some positive and/or negative stories of how your temperament has affected your life."

Also asked:

Are we born and predestined to be a certain way, or is our upbringing responsible for whether we are calm and serene, or feisty and dominant? Can our temperament change, or are we stuck with how we are for our entire life?

My response to that is yes our temperaments can change.

The reason I say that is because I have seen changes happen in myself over the years as I matured and through the different stages of my life.

Also if you look to palmistry (which I use to do when I was younger and remember comparing my two palms and the one hand showed more what you were born with while the other shows more what you become.)

From the Indian Palmistry Institute they give a much better description of the difference between the two palms

The passive hand tells the past habits and incidents of life. These past habits and behaviors were the results of his environmental and genetic influences (from parents). The active hand tells about the present and future. The active hand tells the present behavior of the person and what changes this person has brought into his life. So it can be easily understood that if a person has different lines in both of his hands, then he has brought many changes into his life. If he has better lines and signs in his active hand, then he is making positive changes. However, if his passive hand has better lines then it clearly means that he had better potential and had good chances, but he could not make use of them.

The lines on my two palms are quite different and in a good way. How about yours?

The changes I have seen in myself is that I was a quiet, shy child with a bit of a temper ( I was told that came with the red hair, actually mine was strawberry blonde)

As I matured and became a mother I was less inclined to take risks and became real protective (of my child). Funny when I was younger I had learned to fight but never in a physical way, more with words and I really didn't like physical fighting and would shy away from any physical confrontations, as a mother I would dive right into them if necessary.
Yet something about being a mother, motherly love, and I transferred that into other areas of my life, I became a more loving person.

I am a gentle person and have always been good with children and animals.

Thus I chose a new vocation for myself as an Educational Associate working with young children. This put me in a position of being the mature individual in a position of authority and I really didn't want to abuse that. I realized that in this position I could make a difference in these kid's lives and help them develop to their greatest potential.
Thus I was no longer hot tempered but became more of a "Steady as she goes" type person, keeping my cool through a lot of shenanigans.

I also noticed in myself that I really liked challenges and kids can be very challenging! But I was a little taken back when I thought I was being compassionate with the kids but realized that I really just enjoyed overcoming challenges. I am working on the compassionate aspect and I have become more empathetic and caring.

I am a reliable person and a team player but I also have a very competitive aspect (I think that comes from my playing competitive sports.)

I seem to have a lot of drive (definitely had lots of battles with laziness, which I seemed to come out of with the upper hand) When I believe in something I will sometimes work myself to exhaustion, although as I come into my senior years I am more careful of that.

I'm a fairly honest person although I still have times when I want to slant the truth a bit but I'm working on that too.

That leads to a point - as we write about our temperaments how much are we tempted to slant it towards our good side and if someone else were to state our temperaments would it be so shiny! Anyway, there you have my temperaments. Ask someone else who knows me very well if you want a different take on it.

Images: Top image was my creation from a stock picture bought through Graphicstock. The Mama picture was from Pixabay.

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