Friday, September 5, 2008

Personality and lifestyle

Having a nice personality and being a good person seem to be saying the same thing, but they are actually different. To simply state my response, I think having a nice personality is just one factor that enables an individual to be a good person. In other words, being a good person includes having a nice personality. The reason I thought this way is because a person can be a good person either with a nice personality or not. Having a nice personality is a specific idea that describes a person, while being a good person is too vague to be specific. A good person can be kind, generous, gregarious, and so on.
In that regard, I guess personality is a factor that describes a person. By knowing the personality, people can know each other more in detail, rather than just knowing someone is a good person.
Similarly, the difference between having a nice lifestyle and living well can be deduced. Having a nice lifestyle is just one of the factors that enable a person to live well. The phrase living well can mean wealth, family bond, donating money, and so on. Same as above, living well includes having a nice lifestyle.
In that regard, I see the common point between the notions of personality and lifestyle. Apparently, both personality and lifestyle are specific description of an individual. In other words, both personality and lifestyle are certain branch of description that enable people to know each other more in depth. For example, when a person gets to be informed of another, he/she would have a better and clearer guess if the personality is known, rather than just being said it’s a good person. Similarly, it would be more beneficial and informative if the lifestyle if mentioned, rather than just knowing it is a person living well.

1 comment:

Han said...

I agree with your response. I also think having a nice personality and being a good person are actually two different things-although they do have many things in common. Personaltiy is more of a description and detail a person has. Being a good person is just the outer apperance and doesn't necessarily correlate with having a good personality.