You’re steady, reserved, self-reliant, ambitious, and well-disciplined. Even when you were small, you were serious, and the playfulness of childhood may have eluded you. Now, ever the realist, you recognise both your strengths and your limitations.
Among your limitations, you suspect, is the inability to have fun. You have a tendency to descend into depression and pessimism from time to time, perhaps because your mother suffered from a case of postpartum blues. Sensing her gloom, you pulled back. You’re emotionally reserved and self-conscious, especially in the face of other people’s melodramatic out- bursts. You can’t bear those scenes. Success steadies you. You’re willing to shoulder broad responsibilities because you feel more grounded, as well as more powerful and peaceful, when you have authority. Somebody’s got to take control. It may as well be you.
