I would also add a second element to describe myself. For me the 2nd would be air as I bind air with the eternal wanderer. You never know from where it comes and where it goes, it can be a charming breeze or can be terrifying hurricane destroying everything in its path. More or less it is the description of water and the other elements. They all have 2 different sides, extremes I would rather say. The beautiful calm part of each one and also the darker devastating part. Returning to the "air", I am also a wanderer. I love moving, making new things even if I have no much courage, I cannot stand the idea of routine tasks and habits. It kills me!

It's great to see that we have some fire elements among us, congratulations Mellon and Amarie.

Well that turned my cheeks firey red.

Water is definitively the element closest to my heart, I have grown up by the sea and think I would have become rather depressed if I lived somewhere where I couldn't see the sea or a lake. (Luckily I live where I can see two lakes AND the sea!)

Water soothes me and I would like to be water, but I feel water is more calculation in it's anger, the sea retracts before the wave rise up and hits. I am more... a swoosh and a bark and it's over.  And I sort of hope I am a warm person as well. 

I think all elements have their healing and destructive sides, and I think everybody has e bit of each in them. 

Fire isn't all about destuction and danger. It's also the Sun, light and warmth. I think I have been facinated by the maia Arien since I first read about her, she is the only fire spirit who refused to serve Morgoth. That's girl power! 

Hi! related to water I have to say that there are some therapies with that element because it is said that water is very linked to our emotions. Just try to listen to some relaxation music with water sounds, rain, waves of the sea, whatever... you will probably finish crying like a child!

This post is just for fun, a little note that can be interesting!

Choosing a single element is difficult but I do believe the one that portrays my personality best is fire. I can be very rash at times, much like a flame that burns the ones who dare to venture too close. At other times I hope I can be that little warm spark that radiates heat like a warm hearth.

At the same time I dare say I have a little something from the wind within the depths of my soul. I have this desire of seeing the world which I can not satisfy. Where ever I travel I always look at the horizon and wonder if I have the time to find out what lies just out of my sight.

At other times I feel like I have the ocean bellowing inside me. It is perhaps most visible (Or audible) In my music. Like water there are always those little ripples that keep on expanding further and further.

I believe once I would have called myself earth, though now I am ever the more sure that I am one of the wind. I've lost a bit of my stubbornness over the years (but not all of it) and I am not as sure of myself as I was in the past. But in certain core things my beliefs rest stable and sure, and I think a little bit of me still clings to the earth, but I have found that the wind is what I most clearly and closely relate to, more than anything else.

I love the words and questions which force you to think about yourself and the world around you on a deeper level, and that we feel safe enough to do so together here. This thread reminds me of that, and I want to thank PT, and apologize for not being able to post very much. The internet is very touchy nowadays, and I have been traveling a lot lately. Glad to be back!

Once someone told me I was a mix of Earth - because I am very stubborn and don't move from my opinions, plus rarely change, but when I move EVERYONE does - and Water - I'll wear someone down after a while.  So what does that make me, mud?  ;-D

But I think I'm just Earth.  (And what a coincidence, my initials spell DiRT; no 'I' but I added it).  I really don't like  changing, and prefer to stick to a schedule.  I am very stubborn, and like training animals, because I will always win (also patient.  Stubborn and patient means the same thing.  Also I hate changing my mind, and I like to figure out what is right before I stick to it.  I don't like being wrong.

Well, that doesn't about sum me up, but I've never written about my personality before, so I don't know what else to add.  Thanks for starting this, Leelee!  I loved reading about everyone's elements!

This is a very interesting thread. Having to describe oneself in a single word is as futile as it is revealing, and when people have to justify this choice it becomes less futile and more revealing.

Fire. Air, water, and earth are all substances. A solid, a liquid, and a gas. Yet fire is not a substance, fire is a reaction. Once I realized that distinction between the elements I knew which I was. I am extremely reactionary in all situations. Furthermore, I am fairly predictable in many situations. Air, water, and earth can react to each other and their situations in many ways. Fire, on the other hand, just burns. Whatever you give it, it tries to eat. I don't destroy things in my life like fire does, but I am both predictable and extremely reactionary. Perhaps most important of all, fire cannot exist in a vacuum.

Hopefully that revealed some things about me and was as true as I think it is.

I just read back what I posted here some time ago. I still think the same about it.

I love this thread, it's so interesting.

I might give it another go somewhere this week and post a little update. (The same as my first post, just different (maybe better) words )