Question for the assembled

[drwex]

(inspired by dpolicar)

What is the quality you know you have that is hardest to show other people?

Comments

Wisdom

[gentlescholar.livejournal.com]

I don't have a lot, but to the extent I do, wisdom usually seems to amount to "shut up" or "stop arguing" or "be patient" or "do nothing, just wait." It is pretty much always something hard to see.

[sykotropic.livejournal.com]

Vulnerability

[rdhdsnippet.livejournal.com]

Adventurousness. (Is that a word?)

[mud-puppy.livejournal.com]

anger

[mzrowan.livejournal.com]

Hmm...hardest as in "I am reluctant to show that to others" or hardest as in "hard to demonstrate outside of my head"? Or is that part of the question? ;-)

[drwex]

Yes, it's a word: the trait of being adventurious

[drwex]

Yes.

[cutieperson]

vulnerability is the word that springs to mind that is closest; i don't think that's quite right though. words are hard to put to it... but the ability to hold so much together on a tiny little string; i don't think others (generally) see that.

[dpolicar]

Uncertainty.

Or... well, that's not quite right. It's not that I find it hard to show uncertainty to people... that's easy. It's that I frequently come off as more certain than I am.

[mrw42.livejournal.com]

Competence. I think that I often understand things a lot better than I seem to understand them.

[fenicedautun.livejournal.com]

I grok this on a deep level.

[fenicedautun.livejournal.com]

The side of me that prefers to keep things private :)

[drwex]

:-P

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Fear or insecurity

[cereselle.livejournal.com]

Anger. Very few people know when I'm angry.

[intuition-ist.livejournal.com]

hardest as in "I am reluctant to show that to strangers"?
alien-ness (as in, I'm fundamentally different from you on so many
levels it's hard to describe, so i'm just going to act a little wierd
and hope you don't notice the Deep Wierdness Zone here.)

hardest as in "I am reluctant to show that to friends/lovers"?
femininity (as in, sometimes I really do like girly stuff, even
though i think i look ridiculous when I wear/apply it)

hardest as in "I have a hard time demonstrating this"?
desire for community and loyal/understanding friends

[bridgetminerva.livejournal.com]

Patients (the quality of waiting not the sick people)

I have it but many people don't think I do. because I don't used it when I see it isn;t germaine.

[quezz.livejournal.com]

All emotional things are hard to convey for me as I am autistic. The most difficult though: sensuality. I am deeply sensual, and I find it very difficult to get people to notice that. I think it's because I'm also deeply intellectual, and the two in most people's minds don't mix.