Who Are You in the Animal Kingdom? [Migrated Post]

I’m always fascinated by personality tests, notably accurate ones. A friend referred to me this website, Doubutsu Uranai (literally meaning “animal fortune-telling”), a very long time ago. I recently stumbled upon it again and recalled the self-reflection I went through the very first time I saw my results. I’ve got to say … 80% of it are true.

• You are Gold Lion, who is rather serious and polite type of person.
• You value personal relationships.
• You suppress yourself and act to be a sociable person.
• But you are really a person who doesn’t like to lose to anyone.
• You dislike emotional atmosphere and vague attitude. (huh?)
• You want to make everything clear-cut.
• You like to stay in your own little world.
• If you get in a situation where there are lots of people you can not express yourself and act as a perfect person.
• You are not very subjective sort of person, unlike ordinary women, but unfortunately you lack soft and gentle atmosphere.
• You tend to be too bold.
• You cannot help but stretch your hand to those who are in need.
• You are very kind person who helps the weak.
• You are also weak on compliments, and will work enthusiastically after someone has given a compliment.
• You will go about your duty steadily and loyally, and not get in a rush to achieve the objective. (I do take my own sweet time …)
• You have perseverance, and will work effortlessly until you reach your objective.
• Something that you have worked steadily for a long, long time, will turn out to be an asset to the world. (let’s hope for that!)
• You are careful and rational, and therefore place value to steady life.
• After getting married, you will be a devoted mother and a wife, but you are really a very dependent person, and prefer to keep your own little world. (hmmm …)

Backed by social and behavioral psychology studies, the Doubutsu Uranai personality assessment only requires you to include your date of birth to accurately determine who you are among the 12 different kinds of animals your unique traits and characteristics most closely resemble.

Once you know which animal you resemble most, you are further classified into one of the colors on their file. If you are situation-oriented, or otherwise noted as belonging to the New Moon family or the Sun family, you are either a yellow, green, gold, or silver animal. If you’re a laser-sharp objective person, belonging to the Full Moon group or the Earth group, you’re either in red, blue, brown, orange, purple, or black. Stripped off the ‘gold’ label, of which the gold lion is described as “bold and sedate, but have inner sensitivity”, I zoomed out a bit and went back to what I basically resemble: The lion.

1. Lions love special treatment and praise.

2. Lions say things like “Awesome!” and “Definitely!”

3. Lions don’t complain and are hard on others

4. Lions are perfectionists

5. Lions are not good with numbers

6. Lions’ mortal enemies are lack of sleep and an empty stomach

7. Lions own expensive things

8. Lions love silly puns

9. Lions are actually spoiled kids

10. Lions are outwardly impressive; but their rooms are a shambles

… aaand all 10 of the above statements are true, as my fellow Lion friend agreed too.

Take the test and see the results for yourself :)



Love, Stace

When You Feel Dead [Migrated Post]

Imagine life without love, giving, and sacrifice.

I think that none of us on this planet will enjoy a good life without understanding the true meaning of sacrifice.

Not any one can continue breathing air, for goodness sakes, without experiencing loss, without fighting for what they value, without surrendering their all to faith and hope that there’s still goodness in this world.

Not any one deserves to take in oxygen when all they can be is mere existence and can only do one thing: Give out carbon dioxide. Instead of bearing fruitions of love, such as joy and peace and patience, you’re merely taking up space and polluting the air. And because love is an action (as opposed to fickle feelings), it takes work – lots of hard, toilsome, time-consuming work.

Love is a lifelong labor to honor grace to its highest – higher than any human being on earth. It’s quite an impossible task, but you have to do it – you have to try for life. And so, to die for love is to be alive.

Your birthday was the day when you’re given the priceless gift to live. How you live your life is a way to show your gratuity to the ones that gave you life – the priceless people to whom, no matter what you do or how much you give in return for their gracious love, you will never fully cover the gift they’ve freely sacrificed their all for you.

Coming into existence without leaving behind a goodwill legacy is like serving a clean but empty plate on the dining table, with no dust to sweep, no dirt to wash away – no mountains to move, no obstacles to overcome, none whatsoever to go through, nothing to do with the plate except throwing it away as if thrusting a boomerang as far away as you can, leaving the broken pieces disperse into the distance and be gone from existence forever.

This is exactly how I sometimes feel, taking in oxygen for granted.