Humor me …

Personality tests abound, no more accurate, I suppose, than an astrological prediction of your day.

Matsuo Basho was best known for his calm demeanor, often philosophical, occasionally choleric when his stomach was acting up, and in the end melancholic, but philosophic at the end. Hippocrates, Papa Doc, the Father of Medicine, came up with four personality types to describe human beings. I suspect we are a mix.

Humor me, …
am I sanguine or choleric,
melancholic or phlegmatic?

Impractical or pragmatic,
Simple or polysyllabic,
No stickler for the rules

Everything and anything,
Open to the all possibilities,
Except for political conspiracies

Wondering, what’s my personality?

Am I calm, cool, and collected, occasionally choleric, bordering on apoplectic, or simply mad?

Personality,
It’s all Greek to me,
Depending on my day.

Deep within my subconscious a tune arises. “Personality” written by Harold Logan and Lloyd Price, recorded by Lloyd Price on Paramount Records, reaching number one on the R&B and two on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in 1959.

Random thoughts.

1959, Fidel Castro took power in Cuba, the Dalai Lama fled Tibet, the U.S. Civil Rights Commission issued a blistering report on racial discrimination in America, the microchip was invented, the birth control pill freed women from worry, and the first American soldiers were killed in Vietnam.

You are wondering,
where am I going with this?
Dear friend, so am I…

Bashō no yōna, 2024