Shifting Characters

Writing my "character' has been challenging, because as I write, I discover there are many characters at play, and depending upon my mood or situation, different characters emerge, more out of habit than in response to what the immediate situation might call for.. to make life easy, I realize that I have taught myself  to respond to certain situations like a puppet. I kinda have a matching 'character" that emerges to deal with specific  situations ( the judge, the goody goody, the angry ). But these generic approaches never seems to work, because I realize that each situation is unique and I need to be more aware, and listen and respond from the heart, rather than from an automatic, reactive approach. All situations are not equal, and need to be approached differently.  I guess that my character could be seen as a tad shifty and whimsical, and responding out of a need to be right, rather than a need to truly see and hear the situation, and what it is asking of me, even if my mind thinks otherwise.  No matter how you cut the pie, it always comes back to "awareness" and appreciating the subtleness that each experience asks of you. In a sense I find I ask myself twice how I feel about something, because sometimes the first answer is coming from a place of habit, and if I ask myself the question again, I find myself deepening and the answer is quite different.