what is it about personality tests that fascinates us so much?
what is so endearing about reading what you already know? or how about discovering a song that completely hits home for you? a book that
could very well be your biography or the entirety of your philosophies?
i would imagine that it's tied to a sort of internal need to find a voice that understands you, a tangible presentation of who you really are, a way to relate to other human beings on a psychological level.
man, whether dreamer or scholar or protector or leader, has always strived to master such lofty ideas. putting feelings and values into words allows us to invoke what it means to be human at will when our actions are put to question or our sanity is almost at stake.
these glimpses of our personality provide us windows into our habits and behaviors, our core values, our strengths and -- most importantly -- our weaknesses. they offer reason and explanation, past and possibility; they offer a view from the outside looking in. I think of Aristotle and his ideas on aesthetics here: man appreciates art through the recognition of things familiar to him. how else, then, is he to react in any other way than enthralled when faced with a description of his innermost self?
...I am NEVER going to get my schoolwork done today, am I? gotta get my head out of the clouds again...
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