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★ name.That's my name. Eden; a paradise, a utopia, a place of refuge and pristine beauty. Do I offer feelings of safety to those around me? Perhaps. I do try to be a polite person, and I try not to allow myself to be angered easily. My middle name is Adair; it's a name of Irish origin, and means 'oak tree'. Aside from that, it's nothing special. My family name, Jaeger, means 'hunter'.★ gender.I'm male, and I always have been.★ age.I am 27 years old. My birthday is the 17th of June, making my zodiac sign Gemini.★ occupation.I'm a cafe owner. I don't like coffee, unlike my daughter, but I do love tea.★ personality.First things first, I am always smiling. It's something I've never questioned, though I am often asked why I'm so happy. I don't know why; it's just me being my usual optimistic self, fooling myself into believing that there's nothing wrong with the world we live in. How silly! The truth is that I think I'll be better off acting happy than acting sad, because I'm more likely to truly become happy that way, and people find me more approachable when I have that crazy smile on my face.
Most of the time, I'm a very passive person. When I am irritated, either by someone or something, I do become somewhat aggressive, however. This does not happen easily, and I pride myself on being a friendly person in general, but on occasion, I do allow my rage to get the best of me. When this happens, it's usually in the form of passive aggression rather than full-on outbursts, and my voice at such times is deeper and sounds strangely like a growl. The mane-like fur on my neck fluffs up instinctively, too, but rather than making me look intimidating, it just makes me look somewhat humourous. I guess it stops people being scared of me, though.
I have a healthy sense of right and wrong, and I stick to it accordingly. However, even if I'm unsure, I'll never question authority, which does get me into some more than unfavourable social situations sometimes. They know more than I do. I believe that rules are never to be broken or even just 'bent', as they exist for a reason and you never know what may happen if you go against the word of someone more important than you. On the other hand, I'm likely to avoid being around my friends if they start to do things that I don't like.★ likes and dislikes.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━xxxxxxx█████████████████ █ ★ █ █████████████████xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
█████████████████ █ ★ █ █████████████████xxxxxxx━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━xxxxxxx There are many things I like, each stranger than the next, though one may perhaps have come to that conclusion already due to my somewhat eccentric personality. Of course, like any other normal person, I have my fair share of dislikes, too. Oddly enough, I do seem to be able to express what I like with far greater ease than I am able to state what I dislike, which makes me seem like I'm not a fussy person. I am.
I find studying the culture and way of life of ancient civilisations to
be immensely interesting. The fact that the way these ancient
plumerians lived shaped our lives in so many uncountable ways is breathtaking in itself, but then there's the idea that had they been any different, we probably wouldn't be the way we are now, either. Being a virologist, too, I enjoy finding out how they dealed with sicknesses and diseases, especially those related to viruses. Historical medicine in itself is a fun topic, too.
Some of the stranger things I take pleasure in are the old fairy tales of my childhood. I must have read them dozens, maybe even hundreds of times by now; the well-known and beloved stories of Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood and Jack and The Beanstalk will forever hold a special place in my heart, for they inspired the rich childhood fantasies that allowed me to grow up as nice a person as I believe myself to be today in my adulthood. Some may find it childish, but reading these wonderful stories gives me such and overwhelming sense of nostalgia that I just can't resist doing it. I own a small golden pocket watch, and I take it with me wherever I go. Perhaps this is an unconventional method of telling the time; that I do agree with, but there's no denying the whimsical charm the such a device brings about. I understand that some may feel differently, but I love pocket watches, and though I'm not at all against the idea of wearing a watch or using my mobile phone to keep track of the time, I'd choose my pocket watch over the other options available to me any day for sure.
My favourite foods include any and all types of chili and not much else - the spicier, the better. Of course, there isn't much of a health benefit to doing this; spicy foods do seem to satiate me and curb my appetite in a noticeably quicker manner than most non-spicy foods, but that's about it as far as the perks go.
On the other end of the spectrum, I hate heights with a burning passion. I become incredibly restless when I'm somewhere high up, like a tall building or the like, for I have an intense fear of falling from a great height, too. This weakness has left me completely unable to travel by plane, so I must take a ferry or some other boat whenever I travel overseas. It's a good thing I'm not scared of water. Thankfully, my workplace is completely on the ground, with the higher point being a balcony on the second floor that even I'm not afraid of looking over.
I don't like that I get possessive of people. If I had to write down a list of things that I don't like about myself, this would be at the top, no questions asked. I make friends, and I keep them because I'm too selfish to let them go. I keep them around me as much as I can. Thankfully, my friends mostly consist of my coworkers so keeping them near me is unavoidable, but situations have arisen in which many problems have occurred due to my inability to let my friends live their own lives. I do sometimes wonder how this would affect my love life.
