Our interactions with others happen at multiple levels: ego, personality and essence. Ego involves comparison, personality involves our approach to life and our cultural affinity. Essence is about our energy. Personalities can often blur our awareness of ones energy until after the encounter, when we reflect back on how we felt around them. Some people drain our energy and others energize us. The takers exhaust us with ego strategies to elicit attention and sympathy. The energy givers are light, easy and enjoyable to be around, both during and after the encounter. What they offer life is…

A total plus.