I am a....
Feb. 19th, 2002 12:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
grinninfooleIs anyone else as puzzled as I regarding the appeal of the many "What ______ are you?" tests that many people seem to be citing in their journals? I actually find it slightly exasperating, which is unfair, really, and I'm not sure why. Certainly, I don't want anyone to feel bad about being amused or interested in something so innocuous. Yet, in the semi-privacy of my heart, I say to myself: What is the deal with these things?
One obvious notion is that the tests appeal to people who don't know who they really are. I shouldn't like to be too quick to assert that I do know, but part of the reason this occurs to me is that I have a sense that I DO know who I am, even if I can't quite say.
I suppose that, if I were a B5 character, the Vorlon question wouldn't stump me half so much as the Shadow question: what do I want? (Is the answer 43? Dammit, where's my magic Bonnieball when I need it??)
One obvious notion is that the tests appeal to people who don't know who they really are. I shouldn't like to be too quick to assert that I do know, but part of the reason this occurs to me is that I have a sense that I DO know who I am, even if I can't quite say.
I suppose that, if I were a B5 character, the Vorlon question wouldn't stump me half so much as the Shadow question: what do I want? (Is the answer 43? Dammit, where's my magic Bonnieball when I need it??)
