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Enneagram Type 5 Board Archive Re: The usual: 5w4 or 4w5Posted by Interlocking (63.249.97.95) on January 15, 2003 at 11:56:24: In Reply to: Re: The usual: 5w4 or 4w5 posted by Hyperion (202.73.169.138) on January 14, 2003 at 11:08:55:
> I think this is a good test to find out whether you are a 4 or a 5, > 4: > *No matter how hard I tried, my parents didn’t seem to be interested in > me. Nope. I would have done better with less interest from my parents and more space. I wasn't all that concerned with finding out anything about myself until I was a teenager. At this point, this would have been true. At this point, I rather like myself though. > *Nobody understood my suffering. Some people did. > *Nobody loved me. I'm pretty sure some people did, although it was never much of a concern until recently. I would not have noticed either way. > *My family and friends didn't let me in. To what? > *I felt all alone most of the time. I didn't feel good and I didn't know > why. I've always been pretty isolated, although whether it was good or bad varied from situation to situation. I've often not felt good and not known why. > *Love was missing from my life and I was helpless to retrieve that love. No. > *Love was missing from my life and I felt helpless. No. > *I often wished I were dead. Definitely. > *I hardly remember any happy moments during my childhood, except for my > dreams. I didn't have a particularly happy childhood, but I don't think there was anything special about dreams. > *I stuck around because I knew justice would be done. Stuck around where? What justice? Against what? I suppose this would be a no. > *I always had my own set of rules. What does this mean? > *Others didn't see me.. Quite often true, but there are non-typological reasons for this. > 5: > *I loved my parents, but I didn’t like the way they wanted me to be I was indifferent to my parents, and I didn't like the way they wanted me to be sometimes. > *I didn’t want to get too close to anyone because I didn’t like being > *I wouldn’t tell anyone what I was thinking. Definitely. > *I couldn’t learn enough. Definitely. > *I wanted to know all the facts, possibilities and probabilities and Definitely. Or if I didn't mentally prepare, I got rather confused. > *I appreciated everything I had. I'm not sure what I appreciated and what I didn't. I don't understand the question. > *Deep down, I knew the world could be a better place. Definitely. > *It was truly wonderful when I had my own space. Yes. > *I liked being one step ahead. Of what? > *My thoughts were important to me. Yes. > *Daydreaming was my favorite pastime. Yes. > *Others saw me as scholarly. Very much so. > I am also confused whether I am 5w4 or 4w5. But from these, I think can > relate to 5 closer than to 4.
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