My seemingly perfect past life (part 1)

Continuing from my previous post, I managed to convince my father (or rather, made my father felt guilty, thus granting my wish) to meet my friends in the afternoon, leaving the event halfway. As a substitute, my younger sister took my place. I did not know if she enjoyed herself there, but I knew that she enjoyed the food and the room. Unfortunately for her, it is me who get to stay in the room, not her. *evil laugh*

Anyway, I am writing this not for the sake of explaining what I meant by "not" on my previous post. There are more things I would like to write down; things that often disturb my mind. It is about the past and my personalities. It was actually because of the communication skills seminar I attended last night that made me think about this again. The main aim of the seminar was to teach those doctors and nurses on how to communicate with their patients about a programme in which their clinical data would be collected for an international-scale research on diabetes, and getting them to participate in the programme. For me, on the other hand, the biggest intake was the four type of personalities in which the speaker group people into: D for dominance, I for influence, S for Steadiness, and C for Compliance. D people are those with controlling and authoritative personalities, I people are those cheerful and easy-going personalities, S people like familiarity and hate change, while C people always conform to the majority.

In the past, way long ago, as far as I can remember, I believe I was quite an Influence type. I was cheerful, easygoing, and could not care less about what other people are saying about me. I think, speak and do things to express, not to impress. I still had some evidence of that, buried somewhere in some corner of my house. I remembered going to this camp called "Top Holiday" to Central Java, I went for it twice because I made some really awesome friends that I can get crazy with.

In the middle of the communication seminar, one of the audience asked, "Is it possible for people to change their personalities?"

The speaker answered, "A person's personality is formed in the period when one is 4 to 12 years old, and the personality usually stays that way for the rest of his life, unless some traumatic event happened along the way."

It got me to think. The last time I remembered being cheerful was when I was about 15 years old. I graduated from SMP (junior high or secondary school equivalent), caught dengue fever, and everything went downhill after that. For some reason, my mind exaggerated the implication of a dengue fever. It was as if I was not going to survive the stupid dengue fever, and I did not inform any of my friend about my illness until one day someone contacted me and I told him that I was hospitalized because of a dengue fever. However, it was like the second last day of my hospitalization so they would not have the chance to visit me in the hospital.....

To be continued. Hopefully.