Posted by Julian on January 30, 2000 at 22:12:33:
In Reply to: CHANGED MY LIFE posted by fourtoo on January 30, 2000 at 04:53:27:
Hi Fourtoo
Your description is exactly as I felt when I discovered this place...I couldn't have expressed it better myself. We have both been lucky.
Julian
: : : I also wanted to thank EVERYONE for expressing themselves, for being honest, for all this fourness and bit of fiveness that I'm finding fascinating... and so wonderful.
: : : I found this board by chance, and am SO glad i did! I don't know if I should or can even be here, but it is helping me so much, to read through posts and realize that I'm not crazy... that it's not a bad thing to analyze and think so much through things, and it's simply helping me come to terms with the fact that I have to find a balance between my "ideal" world and the real one we live in. The fact that we make our own reality and have options and can change things...
: : : It's just that I am coming accross so many statements and thought that I identify with and are SO like my own that it amazes me and makes me happy :)
: : : So, again, thank thank you.
: : [JASON] I want to echo your thoughts, fourtoo. I also found the boards by chance (and the Four board seems to be the best - I like Margaret's "typing the boards" post on the Main Board) and just a couple of weeks ago, but they are indeed useful and interesting (and addictive, and though-provoking...etc.).
: : From your description of what you like about the boards, you sound like a Five. Is this indeed the case (I'm a 5w4, and the 4's decided to take pity on me and let me post here!).
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: I'm a 4w5 - "The Bohemian" - it's ME! With the 4 and 5 really close. I maybe sound like a five in moments of "rationality", when i think I've found an explanation or when I'm in my analytical mode, but I know I'm a 4, wow, i really am. When I read the type description it blows me away. It's almost scary to see oneself so perfectly described... scary and reassuring... and embarassing... in a good way :) Because it's important to be able to accept things and not be ashamed.
: I mean, things like admiting that we feel self-pity, and become so angry at ourselves when things go wrong... in my case, feeling guilty and personally responsible for anything that goes wrong...!
: It's so easy to go on an on.
: But again, I am SO grateful for having found this board.... I also found it doing a random search, like I belive Julian mentioned he did - and what can I say, it's basically CHANGED MY LIFE overnight. I can't believe it. I was starting to feel crazy and misunderstood... and suddenly, it all feels right.
: It's really wonderful.
: And I hope this feeling lasts long :)
: Thanks.