Your personality?

[eliasfrost]

That you've been feeling and acting the same for 3-4 years may be specific to you, but I change all the time (and so does most of the people I surround myself with), one week I'm happy happy and the next week I'm down, but I can't say I have any kind of "personality traits" for that matter (like being introvert or extrovert, it depends on my mood) and to me it's weird that people refer to themselves with terms like intro- or extrovert and then ultimately live up to that definition of themselves (not saying you do but that's been my personal observation over the years), instead of just letting every side of you shine independently.

Mood swings are not evidence of real change. Even i, being an introvert, can act like an extravert when motivated by other extraverts. But at the end of the day, i'm still me. The truth is people rarely change, as history has shown. There are blatant patterns to human action--even non-human action--, hence why many things can be predicted.

It's not that people define themselves as either-or, but, rather, they recognize that they match the description of these terms. Indeed, why would you claim you're "happy" or "not happy"? It is no different than claiming to be an introvert or extravert. If you're against descriptions like "introvert" or "extravert", why should "happy" or "sadness" be acceptable?

Just to clarify, I'm not against personality, I'm more opposed to the idea of labeling them, instead of recognizing people for what they are, because ultimately labeling spawn bias (most importantly self-bias). That is what I'm opposing, I have never said that people don't have a personality, I think they do and I think they change frequently (I'm basing on personal observation).

The difference between happy/sad and intro/extravert is that the former is feelings while the latter is labels constructed by the human brain to easier categorize people. I'm sure you know that.