My fatal character flaw.

I have no respect for authority and I don't know when to shut up. It didn't start recently...it's been this way as long as I can remember.

I don't know why I'm this way. I just am. It only caused me trouble in high school. A LOT of trouble.

Anyway, I confessed. What's your fatal character flaw?

That's exactly mine as well... and I am impatient. :hi:

Don't argue with me - it's true.

I wouldn't say that about you. ;-)

j/k

who had no respect for authority :hi:

and false modesty.

I'm a brooder.

I'd say that when you freaked out over that, it was well deserved. :hi:

to my list... :hi:

:D

too freakin' lazy to even explain what I mean.

but I like to think of myself as humble. I am very opinionated and I am *certain* that I am right.

david

my buttons are pushed and a little lazy.

:shrug:

I'm madly in love with an American Idol contestant. But I think you knew that. :P


I want to marry him. You think if I was write him a letter and profess my undying love for him, he would get a little freaked out? :shrug:






- Signed Constantine's psycho stalker. :crazy:

:D

A freaky guy I knew in college who had a crush on Oprah sent her toilet paper and tuna to profess his adoration of her. :freak:

He received a call from the police telling him to back off. :shrug:

:D

:scared:

but certain things really push my buttons (like politics) so I tend to have a hair thin temper when it comes to that. I'm a sore loser and I procrastinate too much. But that's about it ;)

That gets me into trouble all the time at work. :(

Edit - can't spell, either.

:D

Most people would say this is a disease. The Americans with Disabilities Act doesn't seem to help me out though when I go for a job interview and don't make as favorable of an impression because I am shaking though.
I've been going to therapy and have read almost half of Transforming Anxiety Transcending Shame by Rex Briggs and I think that there might be a way out of this. I really do have to change the way that I think of things and work on my behaviors, like learning to be assertive and working on my relationships. I am especially hopeful for the advice offered in the book because almost everything it says about people with excessive anxiety fits me.

If I could only be more shameless about showing off my awesome body and spreading awareness of my amazing sexual prowess, I'd probably get laid more often by even hotter chicks than I do already.

Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
When you're perfect in every way
I can't wait to look in the mirror
Cuz I get better lookin each day

To know me is to love me
I must be a hell of a man
Oh Lord it's hard to be humble
But I'm doin' the best that I can

Some folks say that I'm egotistical
Hell I don't even know what that means
I guess it has something to do with the way
That I fill out my skin tight blue jeans

:P


(with apologies to Mac Davis)

I have a hard time being patient with the the people I love. I have an uber standard and can be very judgmental of those I hold most dear. I'm also really impatient with myself and I get stuck in weird cycles of setting myself up for failure and then getting all down on myself. I work too hard for other folks or I try to prove my self worth by tackling umpteen projects and I don't do enough for myself. Then I blame those around me and my environment for my unhappiness.


Aaah -yep.

Wow I needed to say that, thank you for this thread.

authority dosen't deserve to be respected.

I hold grudges and don't know how to forgive. I know I am supposed to hate the persons "actions" and not the person, but I admit if I think someone is a bigot for instance, I haven't learned to separate them from their actions. I just flat out hate them. I don't want to hear excuses for their ignorance or that their family loves them etc.

I don't see it as reverse judgementalness or bigotry, because in my book bigots hate people just for what they were born, which the person in question had no choice over.

Bigots themselves on the other hand chose to be cruel and hateful in words and action, so why shouldn't I hate them for it? If we are not our thoughts and actions what are we? Isn't saying hate the action not the person just semantics? The person chose their action. I mean when I chopse a wrong action, I accept responsibity for it. HecK I beat myself up over it.

My thearpist says this means I am being too judgemental of others and myself and I guess she is right, and it does make me miserable not happy but I don't seem to be able to stop.

But I know I am supposed to turn the other cheek, but I am still furious over my whole Catholic School past even though it is long past the time to let it go.

I need to learn how to move forward and not let it matter so much anymore, I just don't know how.