My experience has been heavy, volatile, and unusual, but I am almost always positive. I have a High IQ and EI. The IQ is irrelevant, at least to the way I approach my own life. With the majority of people, my ability to empathize and adapt my communication style is automatic and effective. I do not filter the "seriousness" or "depth" of what I say. Often, I fail to recognize the way I portray myself to others. The word I hear to describe myself most often is intense. It's the only word I hear it seems. I am using extreme restraint in limiting my biography to a manageable size. My level of commitment and devotion in personal relationships often extends to a level that is unhealthy and dangerous. I am not structured. I have no interest in things that are trivial, which to me seems perfectly logical. :) I understand that in theory, trivial is subjective. To me, it is concrete and absolute. The color of a bedspread is trivial. It always will be. It should be to everyone. But I know that to some people it is not. This does not compute in my brain. To me, trivial is pretty much anything that does not relate to people, their feelings, or their roadblocks and struggles in life. I will put off anything that is for "me", including work meetings, appointments, etc. because I cannot help but become engrossed in the plights of others.  
For example. I have been back in Chicago visiting for the Holidays. On December 27, shortly after having dinner with someone whom I had never met, I go to see them off on their train (back to the burbs). I have 30 minutes to make my train, but it is at the station a block away. It is the second to last of the night. Outside, someone who has no home, but is a person nonetheless, approaches me and asks me for money to make a phone call. I can surely do more than give him 25 cents....after all, it is 20 degrees out, I have a warm bed to go back to, and I just spent 140 dollars on dinner. Turns out he was born two days before me, and the name he identifies with is "Richie Rich". He says the worst feeling in the world is being ignored. I too, have stated countless times that the cruelest thing to do to another human being is ignore them. His parents were not very accepting, nor loving. Mine were both. Before I realize it, we have spent hours talking and it is 4 am. He tells me that buying him a month long pass to the transit system and just talking to him is the kindest thing anyone has done for him. This doesn't make me feel good. It makes me feel burdened.  
I will never be a CEO. I will never be rich. I will always be driven by people. And through the thousands of people I have encountered, I know I have saved the lives of a few. To me, that's all the drives me. It's not because I need to be a "good person". Its because I cannot fight the urge to know everyone, understand everyone, and balance the equity so that we all can live a decent and validated existence. Sometimes I am appreciated for it. Sometimes not. It makes no difference in the long run, but when I do not receive any validation for extended periods of time it does affect me. I've suffered depressed periods, periods of addiction, and periods of profound reflection. I feel like I couldn't live my life any other way. Even when it is difficult, and all I see around me are the negative consequences of a society forced to focus on meaningless aspects of life, such as status, and power, and material gains...I still truly believe that we are all just as important, our views are just as valid, because we all started out the same.... we just happened to take different paths. Mine could have just as easily been yours.
Arizona, Illinois