A propensity for intensity

Personalities don't just come in different types and shapes, they come in different sizes too.
I have a larger than average personality.
Our personalities are not only made of up of individual traits, but how they mix and combine together. 
When you magnify charisma with a big personality, you end up with someone that's "larger than life".  Enlarge a less charismatic personality and you'll often just end up with someone that is "over the top".  I, unfortunately, am the latter.
This is not something of which I am completely ignorant.  But all too often awareness dawns just a little too slowly, leading to regret and remorse. 
With conscious effort I've learned to hold it in check most of the time.  But sometimes it seems to just come pouring out like a salt shaker cap someone failed to secure properly.  The results are similar too: someone ends up with more of my personality than they wanted. Sometimes a LOT more.
To people with normal size personalities, surrounded by other normal people, I can appear stressed, upset, or even angry when I'm not.  They mistake a sudden change in VOLUME of personality as a mood change. This is where the regrets come in because I can make people uncomfortable. That in turn sometimes leaves me feeling somewhat foolish.
I'll continue to work on managing it. It doesn't always fit with my desire to be more Christ-like. Meanwhile I hope those to whom I am close have, or will, come to understand. 

Saving Arizona

For those of us that are troubled and frustrated by friends that cannot yet see through this "most transparent president", isn't it nice to know that because of the Electoral College there is nothing quite so irrelevant as an Obama voter in Arizona?

A tax by any other name.......

President Obama is employing more scare tactics than his economy is people.
The latest is that Gov. Romney's fiscal plan would mean a tax increase for the Middle Class of up to $2000/household/year.  This is patently false of course.  Romney neither proposes nor supports any such increase. It is a complete fabrication.  But as President Obama said himself in 2008, "When you don't have a record to run on you paint your opponent as someone to run from."  A prophetic statement.
He also promised he wouldn't raise taxes on anyone making under $250K/year. (He has directly broken that promise with the taxes to pay for Obamacare.)  He made that promise, obviously, because people don't like paying taxes. (They only like other people to pay taxes)  I believe he has also indirectly broken that promise. I call it the Economy Tax.
Since Pres. Obama took office median household income has dropped over $4,000/year. Before you utter the name Bush here, understand that it has dropped EVERY YEAR since he took office. In addition to that the cost of living has increased rapidly.  Any of you that go grocery shopping or use gasoline are painfully aware of this. (Interesting that when calculating inflation the government excludes fuel and food: the two most necessary items)  As a result of higher fuel costs, the devaluation of the Dollar due to unrestrained printing of money, and increasingly burdensome regulation on businesses, we will continue to see prices of everything that we need go through the roof.  These expenses effect our families just as adversely as does any direct taxation, yet the administration responsible for it largely escapes scrutiny.
Suddenly a $2,000/year tax increase, especially a fictitious one, doesn't seem so scary.