In my case, I'm neither more like my mom nor my dad - I'm a mix between the two, but I'm not really 'like' one or the other. My mom is very unorganized, usually late to things, and so on, but my dad on the other hand is never late to anything and has an incredible work ethic. Everything is always done on time and is always neat. I wish I could be like my dad when it comes to this, but unfortunately I'm always a little late and don't have the best organization skills.
My mom is very social and talkative, while my dad keeps to himself and his close friends most of the time. He rarely asks for help and is very independent, but my mom is the type of person to call me all the way downstairs to pass her the remote 5 feet away. I'm a mix of both when it comes to these traits, which is something I'm okay with because I think it's good to have a balance of independency and dependency.
Many of my other personality traits aren't really like my mom or my dad. I feel as if I get more of my personality from friends I hang around often - when you spend a lot of time with people, you slowly start to become more like them in certain ways. Over my life, I've had many friends in many different places across the state, and I absorb traits from them and it slowly becomes part of my tendencies and eventually my personality.
Although I'm not really more like my mom or my dad, I sort of serve as a combination of the two, which makes sense since they're both my parents. I see them as complete opposites, and I'm the little space in the Venn Diagram where the two circles overlap. Although I wish I could pick and choose personality traits from the two, nobody's perfect - I still love my parents and I'm glad I'm similar to both of them, even if it's just a little.
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Hi, Richard! It's so cool that you feel like you're a mix between your two parents! While I see similarities to me and my mom, I don't think I'm like my dad at all. It really goes to show that personality can be inherited AND developed.
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