| | so i've been making the gradual and glad realization that i've got lots of introversion in me. i think the light bulb went on talking to one of the elders at our church with whom i share many similarities. she loves being alone yet she's very comfortable in large settings and speaking publicly.
i went home and shared this with b and she said, "you're now just realizing that? aren't you supposed to be mr. self-aware (read: mr. self-absorbed)?"
uh, yeah.
then she pointed out: "you like disappearing from the room when lots of people are around, you spend your days off alone, you like going places alone, you want to go on vacation early when i'm at the conference so you can have some alone time - i mean, HELLO."
i enthusiastically joined in, "yeah, and when you leave for a few days, i get stressed out when everybody asks me to hang out and the days fill up with people."
HELLO.
i can't tell you how freeing this is. i thought i was supposed to be an extrovert, i mean, i tested that way on the meier briggs, but then again, if i'm not that self aware then ... ? but i always felt guilty for wanting to escape and hide away. i also didn't understand the feeling like i really didn't want to see anyone or be with anyone during my off days - feeling like it was because i was too tired and too burnt out and something was wrong.
but my intern says that he's never thought that i was an extrovert - that i could get up for the big events, but that those things don't recharge me.
tru dat.
for the record, i'm not sure if i'm more extrovert or introvert. i know i'm crazy, but that's about it.
a crazy introvert.
great.
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| | Posted 2/5/2008 6:53 PM - 110 Views - 6 eProps - 3 comments
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