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Cassandra Godinez

Cunningham

English Literature

08 January 2019

My Heroic Journey: Challenges and Temptations Narrative

Type 6 on the enneagram is a loyalist, they are constantly conflicted between trust and distrust.

As a type 6 some of my challenges are being anxious, a pessimistic, and having an overactive

imagination. I tend to alway be anxious and it leads to me being pessimistic, and having an

overactive imagination. My challenges tend to hold me back from living my life to the fullest

because I feel like I’ll do more wrong than good.

I am always anxious, and i’m not honestly sure why. I tend to always have this pressure

in my chest and feel really nervous or as if i’m about to have an anxiety attack. This anxiousness

occurs randomly whether i’m just walking in the hallway at school or out shopping, I feel my

anxiety there. I don’t really do much about it because it has always just been a natural feeling

i’ve had, and i’ve gotten accustomed to it being their.

A pessimist is a person who tends to see the worst aspect of things or in a situation. I tend

to always see the worst in every situation, and instead of focusing on what could go right I focus

on everything that could possibly go wrong. A situation where this occurs most is when I go out

with friends. I always think my card might get declined, so I better stop by the bank and get cash

instead, or what if i’m the last to arrive and everyone hates my for taking a long time to arrive.

For the simplest of things I tend to have a negative perspective of what might occur.

According to the enneagram I also have a very overactive imagination, which is true. I

tend to constantly zone out and daydream about different scenarios that could happen, or
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alternate lives I could be living. Sometimes it’s just a simple idea of something I could draw or

design and I sketch it out on a paper, or sometimes it’s a different ending a movie could’ve had

and I play it out in my head. I mainly imagine what my life would be like if I would have reacted

differently to different situations, and how I would live my life if I did things differently.

Overall I feel like many of my of my challenges connect to each other and somehow

support each other, but in a negative way. For example if it weren’t for my anxiousness then I

wouldn’t be a pessimist, and constantly think of how everything could go wrong. If it weren’t for

me being a pessimist I wouldn’t have such an overactive imagination and constantly imagine

how everything would be different. So a way to help me get through all of my struggles would

be to get to the root of my anxiety through therapy. As well as to live my life the way I want to,

and to take a chance now and then, and to focus more on the positive than the negative.