Your Personality Says Everything

As I was reading through all the articles of my choice of topic, I came across the article

"How Your Personality Affects Your Health." http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/heart/articles/2010/09/22/how-your-personality-affects-your-health.html

Hostile
"One of the aspects of the impatient, hard-charging Type A personality that is known to increase heart disease. Hostile people eat and smoke more and exercise less than other personality types, says Redford Williams, head of behavioral medicine at Duke University Medical Center and author of Anger Kills. They're likelier to be overweight in middle age and have higher cholesterol and blood pressure. Williams's past research suggests hostile people are also more likely to develop irregular heart rhythms, and to die before reaching their 50s. Most of these problems can be traced back to elevated levels of the stress hormone cortisol, as well as increased inflammation in the walls of the coronary arteries, which leads to a greater risk of heart attack."


Relaxed
"If you're a Type B, you roll with the punches. You're relaxed, take life a day a time, and handle stress without cracking. That translates to a higher quality of life and lower likelihood of heart disease—less anxiety strengthens the immune system. The more we chill, the better off we are, says Miller: "You don't want to get locked into a stressful, tense state of mind." Over the long term, he adds, relaxing and managing stress effectively will lengthen your life, help your heart and gastrointestinal system, and just make you feel better overall."

 It made me think how I view my perspective on how to choose to live my life now. Even though your "born" with your personality, I still think there comes a certain point in your life where YOU get to choose what path you'd like to take.  I also think some of the part is the people influencing you. So do other people make up your personalities? Is it truly your choice? But you have to remember sometimes that you really do influence yourself. Theres so many difficult decisions a person has to make at some point during his/her lifetime. It's the simple things that make up your life. Now it's your choice. What will you do?