365 Day Meme: day 39: why you think you’ve learned more from the good or the bad

I think I learn both from the good and the bad probably about equally, in the long run. However, I make a very strong effort to learn from the bad and often I don't learn the first time around when something bad happens (that something bad usually has to happen over and over for me to learn from it). I also spend a lot of time suicidal or depressed or self-loathing before I can gain enough distance from the problem and learn in a productive way. I find learning from good experiences far more rewarding and I learn more quickly. Good experiences give me inner strength and positive memories to hold onto. I remain more optimistic, including about my own life, and find it easier to help other people. I imagine some bad experiences are necessary under some circumstances... There are probably things I have learned from bad experiences that would be more difficult to learn from good experiences.

( 365 Day Meme )

Roman Sunlight Painting

Here is the painting I just did. I tend to focus more on color in my works, so the scale isn't exact. I never use measuring tools or straight edges. I also don't sketch. I just start painting and keep going until I am satisfied. It really annoys me, though, that my arches are so off. Oh, well.

( Roman Sunlight Painting )

Myers-Briggs/Jung Cognitive Functions

I've been reading Personality Cafe forums a lot the past few days. For the Myers-Briggs my personality type is INFJ and I decided to write down how I think I use my main functions (the shadow functions are rarely used or tend to be used in negative ways). Even though the fourth function is usually weak, it is usually not actually a part of the shadow, supposedly.

Introverted Intuition - My interest in religion and philosophy, my focus on abstracted and personal spirituality, theorizing, being slow to take in outside information, always trying to understand myself in abstract ways, ideas for artistic endeavors and abstracting the environment for my work

Extroverted Feeling - Taking great interest in other people, focusing heavily on my relationships, preferring harmony among people, thinking in terms of what "should" be, trying to enforce my values on others sometimes, being sympathetic, worrying about hurting other people or dissonance between people, evaluating art and writing based on how it feels to me and reflects my preferences

Introverted Thinking - Reflecting on information I gather and trying to organize it into models, relating everything back to myself and trying to understand myself, sometimes being rigid in my thinking and being illogical when I think I am being logical (still developing this function)

Extroverted Sensing - Enjoying physical activities like ballet and gymnastics (maybe also yoga? You are supposed to be mindful during yoga and be aware of your surroundings...), taking in outside stimuli and applying it to my art (paintings/drawings of what I see -- not usually abstract art), obsessing over certain kinds of food, enjoying nature and the environment when in the right mindset, tendency to not notice my physical environment in certain ways (because it's a weak function) and even weaker in noticing things within my body (Introverted Sensing? My weakest function?), paying close attention to beauty and appearance of bodies (including my own)

5 Gratitudes

1. Reading the rest of Song of the Magdalene
2. Watching Batman and My Little Pony
3. Eating Thin Mint ice cream
4. My mother paying for my Ritalin LA prescription
5. Michael helping me out around the house