We meet with various kinds of people everyday...some of them we like, and some not...but why? Why we like someone and why not others? What are the minimum basic things by which we can realize a human character? I mean if you want to know about someone, on which things would you like to watch of such person?
A good measuring stick is to watch how a person treats the elderly, children and animals. In other words how does this person treat the weak and defenseless? Do you see meaness or kindness? A very good barometer.
I like to meet people in their worst time. Only in hard times the real being is shown. People might say they are 'good' but under pressure people change. All of us have different levels of tolerance towards certain negative behavior. If you have the possibility to know those dark moments you will know if you want to move on with that person or you prefer to avoid him/her. In the other hand we need to be realistic about other people. Most of the times we have expectations, and that's when we make a mistake. If we have expectations we will have disappointments. If we develop the ability to accept the people the way they are we will have better relationships.
In a big purpose like any social work, there are so many people come to do this, but by this you can't catch his/her character. To know, or to realize, the character of a human always watch his/her small and smallest activity...
in my culture we believe people have "natures" these natures can not change so if you have a good natured person that person will always be good natured no matter what happens and these are people you usually like and get along with quite well and you say they are good hearted helpful etc on the otherhand some people are just bad by nature and no matter what they do even if its something good, their bad nature will always come through in the end, these are usually the people you feel uncomfortable around and you have to watch out for them the only way you can truly judge a person is by time, sometimes the persons you think are the nicest turn out the worst and the worst turn out the nicest so best be nice and cautious and give it time to watch people out, usually you get a feeling for who to watch out for and also who is good
There are the five big personality traits which encompass someone's whole personality. They are conscientiousness, agreeableness, emotional stability, openness to experience and extraversion. Virtually every human characteristic can be derived and defined from these.