Our Typical Selves

We probably have a typical pattern of response and so our personality is the focus rather than the specific event.  There is then a typical way of handling an occurrence, be it great or small.  The response will be a variation on the usual pattern whether its immediate focus be terrible sadness or great joy.  To all of life's events we bring ourselves and in each instance it is us that we will be.  There is then no "typical" response, but only us responding in ways "typical" of us.  The events do not alter us so much as we incorporate them into who we have always been.