Posted by Excalibur on September 20, 2000 at 02:27:00:
In Reply to: fours as aliens posted by cj on September 19, 2000 at 16:58:45:
I feel very different from my parents and even my sister... and thank God because i don't want to turn out like my parents. One thing I am worried about is that i may be fooling myself... and others at the same time. Perhaps I am so caught up in being 'different' from my parents that i act completely opposite to them, when in fact i may be similar... although i hope not. Sometimes knowing that you should be different from your parents isn't enough... it may just be delaying the inevitable. Ok so i'm very pessimistic, but maybe i will surprise myself when i turn out exactly the way i want to be.
: I have noticed in my own case, and many other fours I know, that they seem utterly unlike the rest of their family members. It seems weird to me that I should end up so different (in terms of my values, focus, direction, likes, dislikes, loves, passions...) from the people with whom I spent my first seventeen years. I see this with other four friends too. Does everyone have this experience? Is it just obvious since we're all so "special"? Maybe this is redundant to post on the four board. Hmmmm.