A JOURNEY INTO THE WORD PERSONALITY
The dictionary definitions of the word personality are basically three as seen below:
The combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character, lively, engaging qualities, a celebrity or famous person.
These definitions of the word personality, are not quite in agreement with the meaning I am attaching to the word in this article. I will take my time however to explain to you, the difference between my own use of the word personality and the common dictionary layman understanding that we are all used to.
From the above dictionary definition, the combination of characteristics or qualities that form an individual’s distinctive character, basically deals with describing a personality according to his or her physical features. It deals with what makes an individual the physical person that we can see. It is the natural distinctive features of different individuals. This definition is not by any means faulty or wrong, it is just what it is, what differentiates people from one another, using physical parameters.
According to the second definition of the word personality, which says a personality is a lively and engaging person, this definition talks more about the sole distinction of individuals. For liveliness, engaging qualities of an individual flows from a man’s soul, this is also a legitimate definition which differentiates individuals from one another by their qualities of the soul. Some are jovial while others are moody. Some are engaging while others are aloof. People are different. In this case we say individuals have their distinctive personalities.
The third definition of the word personality as seen above, is probably what has come to take the center stage of our modern vocabulary. We all probably owe this to the emergence of Hollywood and the American subculture. Such is this influence, that whenever you use the word personality these days, most people tend to think, that we mean celebrity, superstar, VIP, glamour and extravagance.
Since this understanding of the word personality has become an accepted norm in our modern world, we cannot but accept it.
But you and I dear reader, are on another journey into the word personality. Yes, a journey. A journey in discovery. What you will be discovering in this article might be best described to some as an adventure. An adventure into a new meaning of the word personality. An adventure into how such personalities are built. An adventure into qualities that form, the kind of people we are going to be talking about in this article this week
My own definition of the word personality is an attempt to put into use a modern word to describe an old truth. The truth I am seeking to describe through the word personality is as old as the planet itself. It’s root can be traced to the heart of God.
TO BE CONTINUED TOMORROW
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, CHURCH AND NATION
By Pastor Sunday Adelaja