Adventures on Turtle Island

Hi @Former-Member 🙂

hey @Phoenix_Rising If you are around, could you write your rules and post them in sometime? No way can I write your rules, would not have a clue! 🙂

Have a good day @CheerBear ... Im going back snoozin 😛 *waves*

Haha you don't fail.. @CheerBear. I love how you think, it makes me laugh... in a good way not a bad one! You bring so much Id never think of and thats great! Diversity is really important especially marooned on an island!

catch you all later 🙂

@Spookytookims @CheerBear It sounds like you guys are having a lot of fun with this adventure. @Spookytookims, you asked for feedback re. my part in this adventure. I have been reflecting on this and one thing does jump out at me. I'm not actually into MAKING rules, it's more that I appreciate OTHERS making rules, and once they've made the rules, I'll go into meltdown if the rules are changed or not adhered to. So...for example, my friend who bailed out of my world in November made the rule that I couldn't call her, but she would call me once a fortnight. Sometimes I would wait and wait and WAIT all weekend, only for her to message on Sunday night to say she was too busy to call. This invariably caused chaos. My psychologist has made the rules that I can email once a week and send two voice messages which can be a max of 3 minutes each. I have learnt the social rule that when people say "you can call me anytime," they don't actually mean it and they will get angry if I call them at 2am. Is this helping? You see? I don't MAKE the rules, I just process the world in terms of rules and I function best in situations where there are rules - this is why I'm good at inferential statistics and writing in APA style. Conversely, I don't do well in the "real" world where I am regarded by most people as being too black and white, and too rigid.

Rules, structure and routine make me feel calm because I know what is going to happen when. I don't cope with unexpected events (good or bad) well at all. So...is this helping you in creating my character???

I'm not planning to be back on the forum today, but I look forward to the next episode. As I said the other day, I don't take this MBPI stuff too seriously so don't feel like you are going to offend me or anything.

@Spookytookims Hee hee, you obviously posted while I was working on my post. Nah, I will let you guys create some structure for our days on the island. My only rule is that once we make the rules, we stick to them.

Ohhhh I get it. Rightio I'll have to rethink a bitt on that then but yes @Phoenix_Rising I get what you are saying and it makes a lot of sense. Wow that's really interesting and insightful. Thank you.

Noooooo I dont want rules... I cant even stick to a recipe I do REALLY bad with rules! Lol @CheerBear

But dont worry @Phoenix_Rising i hear you and I'll think of a solution (or try to) 🙂