Hello and welcome to the life of an introvert. You’re either reading this because you are an introvert, you’re an extrovert and you’re trying to understand the inner workings of an introvert’s mind or you’re my mom. Hi mom.
If you don’t know what an introvert is, it’s that friend you have that very rarely goes out and would much rather stay home and watch Netflix by themselves than go to any crowded establishment. Don’t take it personally. It’s not you, and it’s not us either. It’s just the idea of standing in a room with a bazillion other people is less than thrilling to the standard introvert. The loud noise and the people running into you left and right gives us agita.
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We, the introverts, don’t want to talk to your giant new group of friends and then be left unexpectedly and awkwardly alone with them. We don’t want to go to places where we don’t know anyone, and if we’re being forced, there better be Wi-Fi and snacks. Please don’t force us to go out when we just don’t want to. Sometimes (most of the time) we just want to sit around and do nothing. Trust me, we aren’t bored, we’re having fun.
Don’t feel bad for us when we stay in on a Friday night and all of our roommates are going out. We love that crap. We love having the whole place to ourselves. We’re free to watch whatever we want to watch on the TV in the living room, play our music as loud as we want, do whatever weird things we want to do. It’s fantastic.
When we do want to socialize with other humans, we prefer small gatherings with close friends. Toss in a bottle of wine, pizza and a movie and we are good to go. Now, this isn’t to say that we don’t go out and have fun ever. Every once in a blue moon we get a hankering to do a little more than lay in bed every night. Every once in a while we venture out of our caves to explore the world that seems to change while we huddle inside.
Why is it so bad that we like to keep to ourselves? Why can’t people understand that not everyone needs to be surrounded by other humans 24/7? It is true enough that sometimes we need those extremely extroverted friends to rip us away from our computers and throw us into the world we are missing. We rely on those friends to tell us when it’s time to let everyone know that we’re still alive and breathing and we haven’t officially melted into our mattresses quite yet.
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