Elephant

What Elephant says about you

You remember. Birthdays, old jokes, the name of a friend's childhood dog, who showed up for you in a bad year: it's all on file, and none of it fades. You're warm, steady, and family-minded in the widest sense. Your family includes cousins, roommates, coworkers, and the neighbor who once helped you carry a couch up three flights of stairs.

You look after people, and you keep doing it for decades. You stay in touch when others drift, show up for hospital visits and graduations alike, and know exactly who needs a call this week. There's real strength under the gentleness. Elephants have been seen greeting companions they hadn't met in years, and the people in your life get that same kind of loyalty from you. Nobody you love gets forgotten.

A long memory keeps the hurts, too. You can carry an old slight for years, and you take so much responsibility for everyone's happiness that your own time disappears. Let a couple of old grudges go this year. And let somebody else organize the reunion for once.