To all the darling dads and their daddy's girls. They showed us how a woman should be treated by watching how they treated our mothers. My dad was a north Georgia farm boy, born the middle son of four other brothers, raised during the Great Depression. He worked his way through college serving in the Navy Reserve. After graduating, he joined the USAF and served for 30 plus years.
When I was a kid, I wanted to do everything my dad did. So I was quite the little tom boy. I preferred boys for friends over girls - climbing trees, playing with Matchbox cars, swinging on vines, camping in the woods, fishing in the lakes, etc. He taught me to be adventurous and fear nothing. He taught me to appreciate and love many styles of music, including classical. He taught me to try new foods at an early age, so I'm not a finicky eater. He taught me to love and appreciate the old, used up, and forgotten things of this world. Probably the most important, he taught me NOT to let my emotions rule me and to let logic and reason be my life guides... which makes me wonder if all daddy's girls are ENTPs - if they took the Briggs-Myers personality trait test. The "T" standing for thinking being the trait to which I refer. I was told the overwhelming majority of females got "F" for feelings on that part of the test. So, yeah... I crushed on Mr. Spock - NOT Captain Kirk.
My darling daddy rests at Arlington National Cemetery. He left a huge hole in my heart when he died of cancer in 1997. I still miss him so very much. God love and keep the dads belonging to all the daddy's girls.
A beautiful capture and even more beautiful narrative - I, too, was a daddy's girl. He taught me many sports (the only one I could never master was golf). I'm a collector like him. Our world was forever changed when he died of cancer in 1992. Now I'm going to have to take the personality test again - I can't remember how I scored - I'll let you know!
@marlboromaam I took the abbreviated version - it gave me 2 results - a match to ISFP or ISTP - I know in my young days I scored high as an extrovert - that has definitely changed over the years!
@linnypinny That's interesting. The psychologist who gave me the test and my results told me that nothing but tragedy in someone's life could change their strongest personality traits. Tragedy could certainly turn an extrovert into an introvert. If I took it again, I'd probably be at the very least an INTP, Lin. I think you probably were an ENTP years ago and maybe you still are. Understanding our traits can reveal so much. I'll bet you can remember the events that turned you from Extrovert to Introvert or maybe, you just need a little boost to your confidence. A company I worked for back in the early 90s gave this test to all of their employees. They wanted us to know our strengths and weaknesses for career purposes. I understood so much more about myself and was thankful for it.
@ludwigsdiana Thank you, Diana! Very kind.
@kjarn Thank you, Kathy! We still have some happy memories though. Yes?
@aikiuser Thank you, Jenn!
@wakelys Nice to meet another ENTP, Susan!