True Colors

I’ve heard that when the chips are down you get to see what people are made of. They say that when people get angry you see their true colors. You find out just what kind of person someone is by the way they handle defeat or loss or any number of other things that happen to people in their lives. I don’t really subscribe to this. That means that you’re focusing on that one event in a person’s life that caused them to be in a different place. You can’t base the whole of a person’s character on how they react to one event. The human personality easily has as many traits as there are people in the world which means that you judging someone on one of them is like judging the population of the world by one person in it. As we go through life we’re all going to face adversity and how we handle it is our own. Not everyone is going to handle each situation correctly the first time, or the second for that matter. Situations you handle well might crush me and cause me to lose it. Perhaps it’s more appropriate to judge your friends on how they handle your adversities. If you are going through something that causes you to go nutso or get sad then while it’s not recommended it is also not unexpected of you to do something stupid. That doesn’t mean you are a bad person or that you should be judged, it means you fell on tough times and needed a minute to regroup. Your character was tested and stressed because of life happenings, what did the people around you do? How do the people around you help/hinder your progress? The luckiest people in the world are surrounded by people who understand their brand of crazy.