In the first chapter of The Enneagram I came across a sentence written by Parke that ignited a spark a curiosity in me. The sentence told me that I would find myself, in the pages of this book (Parke 6). After digesting that sentence and all the possibilities within it, I was hungry for more. I read all nine-miniature portraits of which the Enneagram represents and started to think about what qualities in each best fit my overall personality. It was hard for me to narrow down one specific number because I found similarities to myself in each of the portraits but after further studying the numbers, I settled on one. I am a number two on the Enneagram scale because many of the qualities listed fit my personality. The first sentence in Parke’s
