Personality Crisis ... I think

Passionate (www.dictionary.com)

1. pas·sion·ate
a. Capable of, having, or dominated by powerful emotions: a family of passionate personalities.
b. Wrathful by temperament; choleric.
c. Marked by strong sexual desire; amorous or lustful.
d. Showing or expressing strong emotion; ardent: a passionate speech against injustice.
e. Arising from or marked by passion: a teacher who is passionate about her subject.

Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth EditionCopyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.

2. passionate
adj : having or expressing strong emotions [ant: passionless]

Source: WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University


Ruled by head rather than heart

PersonA is ruled by her head, not her heart. She is a cool, collected person who is usually unexpressive emotionally. Some may see her as unemotional. She does have emotions but has no need to express them. She is withdrawn into herself and enjoys being alone. The circumstances when PersonA does express emotions include: extreme anger, extreme passion, and tremendous stress. If someone gets her mad enough to tell her off, she will not be sorry about it later. She puts a mark in her mind when someone angers her. She keeps track of these marks and when she hits that last mark she will let them know they have gone too far.


What I say ...

Hmmm ... I'm a passionate person about what I like/ love. But yet, I make decisions based on head, rather that heart. So the above statement gets it wrong by 1 bit - i am not unexpressive emotionally. I will rage, I will scream, I will show my blackface - but I will make the decision based on facts, not my emotions. Now you look at it, does seems like contradictory doesn't it? But I never had the issue of mixing personal with business - difficult but it can be done if you lay down all the ground rules from the beginning. If it really has to come to that, I will run. I just don't like conflicts with friends within a working/ business environment. if it's not friends? The it's business as usual, afterall it has to be in the company's best interest right? I'm not paid to be politicking away, and besides I HATE office politics.

And it did seem strange to commented on that I can be hostile during working environment, yet friendly after office hours. I'm just not mixing personal with business, don't they get it? It's just not widely practiced I assume, although the phrase is on almost everyone's lips.