I am a pretty flexible person when others need me, such as at work, school, and my friends--possibly I am too felxible because people do tend to try and take advantage of my good nature in some areas of my life, of course this is not all of the time and is not predominately true for the majority of my friends.

Perhaps I should elaborate on my previous paragraph; the date is May 13th 2009 and the time is about 4:30 pm I am at work and just about to make my way in the managers office of my branch to ask a simple question about my upcoming schedule. On the way there I did get waylayed, only for a moment by a co-worker, we had a pleasant conversation. I strolled into her office she as always seemed thrilled to see me, as she should have been, I was only asking a simple question, to see if I could leave early the day before my scheduled vacation time at the end of this month. When asked she seemed puzzled, and was not informed that I had planned to take any time off (this is not my normal location, my actual supervisor had approved the vacation not her) but actually needed me to stay a few extra days that would totally squash any hopes of having my beloved time off. After I worked some of my magic and used my devilish good looks we had come to an agreeable compromise. I had had specific plans around this vacation time to go to lunch during my time off with a co-worker who had recently transferred, since we always work the same hours but do not have similiar lunches, this was not going to be possible. We were planning to go to the new Red Lobster that is opening on the 25th of May, we moved the date to next month, and this is why my vacation was so important.

Some people may see flexibilty as having a personality to only please people so that I have no confrontational situations. I see it purely as the ability to be flexible to meet the needs of others, I would consider that to be selfless not a pleaser. I forbode you to look at me as a pushover, I do not let people walk all over me, if I see something that is intolerable I will always speak up and stand my ground.

For sure the manager had no intention in taking advantage of my good nature, in fact she was quite the opposite and was extremely accomodating to my requests in order to reach a suitible compromise. I know that other friends of mine have no such intention either, at least in the beginning, when the time comes people to follow with plans or commitments and something else is easier or sounds more entertaining, that is when I become taken advantage of (not sexually of course.)

All in all people will always have flaws and always those flaws will show through when tensions are the highest, situations are the toughest, and decisions are the hardest. I guess it is up to those flexible people in the world to balance everyone out.