When you feel like you didn’t know you would survive for this long and have no idea what you are doing, remember that you are currently living in the Qadr of Allah. there is already a plan written for you and you are living in it so don’t worry about not having your own plan ready because:
We have to make this “gratitude” as our daily habit, so that we can be grateful to every single thing we have. Even the roofs above our head, the free air we inhale, food on the table, and so many more. We dont need to get rich first or something just to say “alhamdulillah”. There are lots of people who find it difficult to have what we have already.
❝If you are grateful, I would certainly give you more; and if you are ungrateful, My chastisement is truly severe.❞ [Quran, 14 ; 7]
Your quiz truly unruled me and caused quite a stirr and not only for me. I bow down to your way of pinning things down to their place in particularity.
I got king and was surprised. Could maybe you further elaborate what it means to be a king?
Thank you so much for the kind words! I’ll say first of all that the Soldier/Poet/King archetypes are just that, and though I believe the quiz can give insight into a person because questions can provoke some thought, I think I consider it more an interactive writing exercise than a personality quiz, so take everything I say with a grain of salt when it comes to relating it to you.
So I’ve spoken about this before on my blog, but the core of the King archetype is in its relationship to duty: the King is given duty, does not necessarily like it, but accepts it any way and deals with it. This is very vague and I think the reason people overwhelmingly get King is that the feeling of being dissatisfied with one’s life but having to live it anyways is fairly common. For the record, the Poet refuses duty, and the Soldier resents duty. Kings carry with them an inherited responsibility, and they are bound to carry that forward whether they like it or not. They cannot stand the thought of failing that mission, and do not like to admit in any way shape or form that they resent said mission. They’ll do it, whatever it takes, because this is what they have to do, at the risk of forgetting to let themselves live for their own sake. They can’t bear the idea of carrying the guilt of disappointing people’s expectations. That’s really the core of the archetype, based on the song lyrics (which I know are about Jesus, but I chose to completely ignore that and take them at face value when making the quiz): “there will come a ruler whose brow is laid in thorn, smeared with oil like David’s boy.” The crown is made of thorns and painful to bear. The King exists as a comparison to someone’s son, and cannot stand on its own. Thus, painful duty and heavy weight of legacy.
Also, since a lot of people who get King say they hoped to be Poets, here’s a fun fact: I’ve built each archetype so that it wants to be another – in theory, Poets want to be Soldiers because they think Soldiers can affect the world more effectively, Soldiers want to be Kings because they believe Kings have the stability and peace they crave, and Kings want to be Poets because they see Poets as free.
Hope that gave you some insight into my thought process!
