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[moominmolly]

What is a thing that you see as a fundamental character trait of yours that you wouldn't ever want to be without?

For me, I think it's a sense of play. No matter how much craziness there is in the world, I basically always have time for a little ridiculousness.

What's yours?

Comments

[harimad]

I was going to say intellectual curiosity but I wouldn't want to be without a sense of play/silliness either. (It never ceases to crack me up when my 7 yo says "Mo-o-om, you're being silly!" as if she's never seen me being silly before.) Guess they'd be one and two on my list.

[veek]

Oooh! Good question.

I think for me, it's my unrelenting openness to the world. I have a permeable membrane, and don't ever want it to harden.

[bloodstones]

There are other traits I'd prefer on occasion, but one is my practicality - even when I want a nice wallow there's part of me that is always figuring out how best to use the available resources, why it's not the end of the world, etc.

[oneagain]

Compassion

[rednikki]

An interest in research and in finding out the right answer. (Which is different from the need to be right in an argument, something that I've improved on.)

[comrade_cat]

I think this is another way of saying what I wanted to say with 'curiosity', although I'm pretty content with the 'curiosity' phrasing too. It is a wonderful trait and more people should have it.