How Are We?

There are several ways to figure out someone’s characteristics. I know that people tend to take them pretty seriously. Believe it or not, this is what I found.

A female born in year 1992, September 29th, with a blood type O, was born in the Chinese year of monkey with a zodiac sign of Libra. This will tell us her characteristics as a person.

According to Chinese year of monkey, she is:

  • Fun, loving, cheerful, energetic, clever, creative, generous,
  • A center of attention with their charm and humour,
  • Transparent with their emotions,
  • Curious with “a great thirst of knowledge,”
  • Good at persuading themselves
  • Opportunistic, and
  • Loyal, devoted, and passionate.

According to zodiac sign of Libra, she is:

  • Fair and balanced, with a desire to know every side of every situation,
  • A leader, someone everyone is naturally attracted to because she brings out the best in people,
  • A peace seeker who doesn’t like confrontations,
  • Accepting of others,
  • A social butterfly who loves communicating,
  • Charming, with excellent social skills,
  • Civilized and compromising,
  • Beauty seeker, and
  • An Idealist.

According to blood type O, she is:

  • A leader,
  • Generous and kindhearted,
  • Popular and acception, and
  • Trustworthy.

It’s really interesting to find so many common words from these three categories. Let’s look at a male born in year 1962, December 17th, with a blood type B. He was born in the Chinese year of tiger with a zodiac sign of Sagittarius.

According to Chinese year of tiger, he is:

  • A “born leader,”
  • Noble and fearless,
  • selfish sometimes but “capable of great generosity”,
  • Unpredictable, and
  • Warm-hearted.

According to zodiac sign of Sagittarius, he is:

  • Intuitive,
  • Optimistic and adaptable,
  • Active, direct, and hardworking,
  • Striver to achieve the bigger picture,
  • Curious, and
  • Forgiving.

According to blood type B, he is:

  • Curious,
  • Focused,
  • Driven to be the best, and
  • Isolated her/himself from others.

Similar with the first founding, there are common words among the three categories. The studies of Chinese years and zodiac signs are all about astronomy, which is science. Blood type studies are based off of the belief that different blood types must contribute to our body differently.

May be we are born with our characteristics already set for us. We will have many variations of characters if we mix them up. In class, Andrew talked about how we are who we are by this crazy chance, where crazy number of atoms could’ve had crazy different number of combinations, separations and reactions, but decided to make us us. But may be, there is more to chemical reactions when developing or being born with our characteristics. And may be, it is something universe decides.