Originally Posted by
pianosinger
wdyt? I was thinking about this the other day...
My Si-Base father-in-law is very good at making himself comfortable, creating physical pleasures for himself. Sometimes to the point of not realizing that others are not comfortable. For instance, he turns up the heat in the wintertime to where he likes it as he walks around in a sweater, but someone else (okay, me) may be sweating in a T-Shirt. But he never thinks to ask if everyone else is comfortable, he just assumes that they are, since he is.
My Fi-Base mother cares so much about proper ethics, and following tradition, that she doesn't even understand the point of view that some traditions are dumb; and that if a tradition or two fall by the wayside, it's not the end of the world.
My Te-Base father is intolerant of uneducated people. He can't seem to understand that some people really can't help being stupid.
My Ni-Base husband is so forward-thinking, and has all these solutions figured out for various societal/economical problems; but he's in no position for his voice to be heard, and he gets so frustrated with world leaders who seem to have failed to see what he sees so clearly.
My Se-Base sister is so good at getting her way, and idk, maybe she's actually glad that others aren't as adept in this area as she is, haha. But, she gets so over-the-top, "loud" and assertive, and she can't see that some people may find her behavior self-serving. Instead, she probably thinks that so-and-so just doesn't have an opinion, because they're not being assertive about it.
My Fe-Base brother-in-law is always wanting to get the family together to play a game or do something else as a group, uniting in fun and laughter (or even in argument). He has a hard time letting go of this desire for togetherness, to accept that sometimes people would just rather do their own thing.
My Ti-Base brother, if you get him started talking about something he's interested in, can talk for ages on the subtleties and technicalities of music, language, what-have-you. It can get really boring to some who are not as inclined towards those things, but he just carries on talking as long as he's allowed to, oblivious to the fact that everyone else in the room is not just as fascinated as he is with the subject at hand.
As Ne-Base, I get so wrapped up in some new and exciting project, that I don't even realize that so-and-so is looking down on me for not finishing something else that I started before. And I realize that I have unfinished projects, but to me it's really no big deal; either they'll get done someday, or they won't, but life goes on.