Despite all my masstexts that I send out weekly saying things like "chickfila, yall" and "movie night tonight. my place" and "menchies after Bible study" Yeah, despite all that, after almost 20 years of living, I finally discovered that I am, in fact, an introvert. My mom told me :)
I was reminded of this last Sunday... it was a good Sunday. I had had a very social week, then a very social morning at church, then a very social lunch with my family and the Shuff's, then was getting ready for a social praise team practice, followed by a social Bible study... I was starting to panic. I love being with people, I really do. I've been blessed with the most awesome friends and family I could ask for. But somewhere in there I had the difficult job of explaining to my sister that I had 20 minutes before I had to leave, and I needed to just be by myself.
I stubled upon this nugget on Adam Young's blog which apparently he got from Carl King (whoever that is...) So I pass on, these 10 myths about introverts.
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I am one too, Grace. Mrs. Rabe is not. It took us awhile to figure out why she was often frustrated that we weren't doing enough with other people while I was often frustrated that we were doing too much with other people. It helped a lot just to realize who we were and how we were wired differently.
ReplyDelete:) I love being social, but at the same time I need the me time to refresh and relax. I feel ya Grace! "I am representing"
ReplyDeleteThis doesn't mean that you are an introvert Grace, this means that you're a normal human being. We all need time to ourselves. I spend a lot of time by myself, and I don't think I would ever be called an introvert... :)
ReplyDeleteI don't like the word 'introvert' (it seems like a diagnosis, an excuse for acting a certain way), but I did see this on Adam Young's blog a few weeks ago and I wholeheartedly agree that I exemplify every single one of those characteristics. :)
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