Middle-of-the-Road

I have come to the conclusion that I am a middle-of-the-road person. My personality simply doesn't do extremes. When I'm with very high energy people, I wear down and pull away, becoming more low energy. When I'm with very low-energy people, I want to stir things up and light fires under rears. Proximity to very messy people makes me tend to be much neater than usual. Lots of liberal left-wingers in the area - I pull more right. The opposite happens with too much far-right exposure. Lots of emotion among my companions? I tend to pull back emotionally. None of this is intentional - it just seems to happen. Not because I'm feeling contrary (usually), but more in an equilibrium-seeking sort of way.

It can be dull sometimes here, toeing the dotted white line. Sometimes I bounce from side to side, just to see where the middle really is. Sometimes I veer all the way to one side or the other, just to see what's going on out there on the fringes; get a little taste of the "excitement". Always, I seem to come back - can't help it!

I am the middle of the road, exactly the way God made me.