Yair Sanchez

Ermert

English Literature

11 March 2019

My Heroic Journey: Magical Weapons

Throughout my life I have been able to use special skills and specials talents to make it to

where I am right now. These special skills and talents will also help me get through my life

successfully and it will lead me to live the life that I want. Growing up I always noticed that I

have always had a tendency to always put others ahead of me. I see this as something good but

also this could be seen as a bad thing. In other people’s eyes I could be seen as a selfless person

but in my own eyes I could see myself as someone else.

After taking the enneagram test, I learned more about my personality types and I was

shown that my top 3 were the peacemaker, the investigator and the helper. As I read the

description of each personality, I saw myself as more as the helper. I saw this as my strongest

personality trait because I am a helpful person. I’ve always been helping people for as long as I

could remember and that has helped me develop some strong friendships and also bond more

with people. According to the enneagram, the helper, also known as the giver, is a person who is

caring, helpful, supportive and relationship-oriented. I relate to this personality because I am this

type of person. I am a caring and helpful person because a person could be going through alot

and I’ll be there for them for whatever reason. I am like this because I was raised by only my

mother and she is the same way. Being exposed to that type of attitude really rubbed off on me

and now I am being a person that people could count on for anything. I could also be a

supportive person because I support anything that my friends and family want to do that will
benefit them. I believe that a person should be supportive because a person might not have that

support in their life so it would be nice to be supportive to a person.

Despite all the good things that a helper is, the helper is also a person that would be

prideful, demanding and dependent on the approval of others. These are challenges that I face

with the type of personality that I possess. I sometimes do see myself as dependent on the

approval of others because I ask people what they think of something that I plan on doing and if

they don’t like the idea that I have I tend to not do what I was going to do. I also do see myself as

a demanding person because I expect people do things that they say they were going to do and

whenever they don’t I sometimes nag on them to do it.