The Achiever
You have great dreams, they are usually not easy to achieve. You work hard for them, you focus solely on them for long periods of time, during which you undergo hardship, trials, and sacrifices. Finally, you see your dream come true, you bask in the glory, and live happily ever after in your dream life. Or you realize that what you have achieved won't fulfill you for the rest of your days, so you seek other goals out of habit, and live the rest of your life achieving other worthy goals. Gotta be hard-working and persistent for this one.
The Lucky Guy
You're living your life, and you're doing kinda well, or not well, whatever, and one day, perchance, you win a big prize in the Lottery of Fate. You win the Power Ball, or you get one of those work-from-home $5000-a-week Google jobs the internet's spam is full of, or you inherit the fortune of your great-uncle who owned a few islands off the shores of Greece. Or you meet your absolute ideal partner, with whom you live in a pink fantasy for the rest of your days. You didn't work for it, you weren't really looking for it, you just kinda found it lying around, waiting just for you. And you live happily ever after. The lucky skunk kind.
The Socialite
You like people, and people like you. You spend most of your time in good company, you know enough to avoid the bad kind, and you get a career in journalism, low-laying politics, or education or something. You're happy getting to know people, helping people, and other people get to know you and help you in return. Your life is not necessarily solidly set, but due to your varied connections, you're always able to move forward gracefully. You probably raise a happy family, grow old, and die surrounded with friends and family who love you. Happily ever after.
The Intellectual
You like to know, to think, to create ideas, maybe to spread them. You're happy reading treatises on whatever topics you find interesting, be it Science, Philosophy, Politics, Economy, Biology, Dishwashers, Quantum Physics, Psychology, or Numismatics. You're happy discussing these ideas, so you surround yourself with similar people, or you become a teacher or professor. You're happy applying these ideas, so you become a great asset to whatever enterprise you dedicate yourself to, gearing it towards success. You get a librarian as a partner and you live happily ever after.
The Flow-er
I don't mean the plant blossom, I mean someone who flows. You're not really sure where you're headed, but you know you'll get there. You trust Life to lead you in a good direction, so you're mostly docile whenever it changes course for you, whichever way that might be. And Life acknowledges this, and takes you to meet diverse places, situations, and people as your time transcurs. And mostly wherever you get to, you'll find good stuff, because you truly trust that it's a right place to be in. You're lucky enough that you never run into any absolutely tragic episodes in your life, and you wing your way through to the end, which you also trust to be a good end. Happily ever after.
These are not necessarily mutually exclusive archetypes - you can mix and match and add as you like. I can think of some others, like the Athlete, the Artist, the non-junkie Movie Star, the Classy Prostitute, or the Astronaut. Can you think of any others?
1 comment:
I think there's also religious, which is a mix of achiever and flow-er, but where the person is following a goal and/or sense o faith that causes them to take measures and follow actions that are beyond what personal volition would prescribe; the vision being that there is an ultimate goal to achieve, but one which they themselves have not written. Its a sacrificial state of mind, which acknowledges that sacrifice of self for a greater good begets happiness.
I don't think Lucky Guy exists, really. I think all people who hit jackpot in any one sense and doesn't have to work for what they have can't truly be happy. All good life is wrought with hardship, and he who has not suffered has not grown.
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