i am often a cork on someone else's ocean. This is a big thing for me and i too am a lion.. a leo and everything! Very very few people around me would believe that i am so deeply affected. i carry myself in a very strong way, i seem very empowered to others from the feedback i get... but it's my defense, that lion is more like the one in the wizard of Oz.. sure, it's a lion, but don't look to closely. Best defense is a good offense, keep people from attempting to hurt me or affect me. It's what we had to do for whatever reason. It's what we learned as a coping mechanism.

T tries to make a point of reminding me to learn to tolerate small external things.. to not allow them to affect me so much.. i end up trying to control the external factors in order to regulate my internal state. Yeah, said like that it sounds pretty screwy.