on my mind: do you have more in common with Sherlock or John? Or are you a mix?
I think I’m a mix. John on the surface but with a streak of manic Sherlock enthusiasm. Also I have a tendency to shut myself up somewhere and not speak to anyone if I’m focused on something (Sherlock) but I do care a lot about what others think (John).
I think that I’m more of a Sherlock. I can make my head do a lot of the same things his does. I can understand his contempt for humanity at large (though I don’t agree with it…most days), I can connect with the logic and the music and the observation and the WHY DON’T PEOPLE SEE WHAT’S AROUND THEM? WHY DON’T PEOPLE USE THEIR BRAINS?
And I’ve got that part of me that, no matter what’s going on, who’s hurt, or how deep in a hole I am, is always always always detached. Just watching what’s going on and taking it in and analyzing, instead of feeling it. I value that part of me—it makes me good in a crisis—but sometimes, yeah, I feel a bit cold.
What’s John-like about me is that I really do like people. I love meeting people, interacting with them, learning about and from them, and helping them. And I try to be a good, moral person. I may not always get there—who manages it 100% of the time?—but it’s important to me that I try.