13. You are more inclined to follow your head than your heart 

I already discussed this somewhat in the section on sentimental. 

I’m assuming ‘follow your head’ means ‘rationally think about what should be done’. “Follow your heart’ means ‘go with whatever you happen to feel in the moment’.  

I want to say, of course I try to follow my head. But we humans are really good at justifying irrational actions. Which of course pays a compliment to the rational side by trying to make the irrational decisions sound rational. 

There are areas in my life where I know rationally I want to do one thing, but I don’t end up doing that. One of the stupid areas is on my diet. I know that if I’m consistent with counting calories and staying under my maintenance allotment, I will lose weight. I want to lose weight. I’m sick and tired of my stomach being this big. I used to have a flat stomach with an awesome six pack. I used to be muscular. I look like a lump in comparison now. I can lose that weight if I just stick with it. I’d look better, I’d feel better, I’d fit in better clothes. There’s no good reason to not lose weight. Except for it takes discipline and not eating more of the stuff I want to eat. The fact that I’m so wishy-washy…  is that a triumph of heart over head?  

I have one area in particular where my heart continually pulls at me to do something that would be irrational. The fact that I can’t seem to let it go would tell me that the pull of the heart is probably stronger than the head.  

But this whole think makes me think, if the head is so much better, why do we have the heart? 

I’m gonna explore this more, but in a different post. For now, not sure, but I’m pretty certain that the dichotomy, while it may be useful, is also somewhat muddled. 

Both seem like basic senses we utilize in order to make sense of a situation. Yeah, I’m not sure how to answer this one right now. 

14. You usually prefer just doing what you feel like at any given moment instead of planning a particular daily routine 

If left to my own, I prefer not having a particular plan. But if I have responsibilities, I do usually like a plan because I recognize I’m not so capable of mentally organizing myself. My preferred weekends are the ones where I don’t have anything in particular to do. I mean I always have to go grocery shopping for my mom and aunt, and then mom looks forward to that time when I visit her too. She can’t get out of the house without help, so she really needs us to come visit her. So that’s an “every weekend” obligation that I have to take care of. That makes it sound like I don’t want to do it, which isn’t true, but anything that you have to do turns into an obligation sooner or later. 

This one may be one of the simpler answers for me to give. 

15. You rarely worry about whether you make a good impression on people you meet 

I want people to like me. I consider this a character flaw I have. Or if not exactly a flaw, something I definitely need to work on. Of course, I’m not sure if I want to be the kind of person who absolutely doesn’t care at all what kind of impression he makes. My guess is that person would not be much fun to be around, but I may be wrong. 

I would much rather be liked by people. So I do want to make a good impression on people. But as I read the question, it’s about how much I worry about this. So maybe a more careful reading would be that I probably don’t actually ‘worry’ about this. I want people to like me, but in the rare instances I don’t, do I worry about it, not really. Especially if I’ve just met them. I’ve enough experience with people to believe I’m generally a decent person that people like. If I find someone who disagrees, I chalk it up to not being their cup of tea and that’s fine.  

But while I want people to like me, and I don’t worry if they don’t, do I worry about making a good impression? In trying to think what that would look like, I guess I’d want them think I’m friendly, concerned about them, and hopefully they’ll think I have a sense of humor. I think I don’t worry about this. Mainly because I believe those things will come through. 

There we go, question answered. I rarely worry about whether I make a good impression on people I meet.