Type A

Type A

The theory describes a Type A individual as ambitious, aggressive, business-like, controlling, highly competitive, preoccupied with his or her status, time-conscious, arrogant and tightly-wound. People with Type A personalities are often high-achieving "workaholics" who multi-task, push themselves with deadlines, and hate both delays and ambivalence. -- (Ed. note: lifted verbatim from Wikipedia).

I had coffee today with Tom Bon Jovi.  He's another of my many friends with a Type A personality and luckily for him, he knows this.  While there may be a few people possessing the laid-back Type B personality in The Rooms I don't run into them very often.  I do see a hell of a lot of hard charging people. Personally, I confused being too stoned to get off the couch with being laid back.  There is nothing even remotely laid back about Little Stevie Seaweed.

 "No, you were drunk," my first sponsor said, typically not mincing words.  "Didn't you say you got into a lot of fights when you were playing sports?" he asked, doubtfully eyeing my skinny frame.

"I did," I maintained.  "Well, shoving matches would be a better description."  I paused.  "Well, I really glared at a lot of people.  They had to know I was pissed."

"Laid back people don't get into fights," he pointed out.  "That's kind of counter to the whole spirit of being laid back."

We Type A's do get a lot done but we're not too relaxed doing it.  Today I recognize this about myself.  I don't try to change the person that I am.  I try to change how I behave.  I believe that what The Program has done for me is to allow who I really am to come out.  I don't fight it anymore.  I don't sit around very well.  It's who I am.