Excuse my lack of vocabulary. I am sorry if this is too much off subject. I rarely choose to write or talk to express my views. I'm sort of an innocent by-stander in the grand lines of history.
I find that people often forget that they are talking to members of the same species. I almost always see this kind of thing when people are debating on the subject of human behavior. I have often wondered why we all try to give out complex explanations of the way other people behave; instead of simply enjoying people for what they are. There is almost always something to be learned from an interaction with someone; if you find that this isn't the case with a particular person, why not politely end the conversation and go do something else? If you can't end the conversation, why not bear with it for a little while? Will it be the end of the world to lose (and I use that term quite lightly) a couple of minutes of your life? Maybe that person can learn something from you. Although it may seem like speaking to some extroverts is a lack of time to some of you introverts, I advise you to keep the utmost caution.
The difference between the personality type extrovert and introvert seems quite thin to me when two people are put in a situation where they are interacting. We know that, I think, introverts tend to spend most of their time seeking solitary activities and extroverts tend to spend most of their time seeking social activities. Now the only difference I find between these two ways of living is what we commonly call a choice. And we all know that we most of our choices are determined by our past experiences. Someone might have experience a certain chain of events from the first moment of awareness that lead him to become either an introvert or an extrovert. We all live out life as it makes sense to us. And I am not talking about extreme cases, I am talking of people who've learned to find a balance in their life. As long as your way of living makes you happy and you don't feel like things should be changed; then I feel no one has the "right" to judge you.
I guess most of this lies in the fact that we are all individually quite ignorant of the intricate mechanisms of human interaction. We all tend to get caught up in the moment and forget all the golden rules of good human interaction; namely, simplicity, understanding, open mindness, forgiveness and so on. But who can blame anyone, and why should anyone blame anyone? I do not believe that one or the other personality type is superior to the other one... And, to be honest, I believe a balance of both is needed. I don't like to classify everything, just look how hard it is to distinguish between order, class, family, sub-family, variety, etc; when trying to class this or that particular animal, insect or plant in the vast tree of life.
I don't know if you've ever spoke to an old person with all his mental faculties intact. But I have, and so far most of them, have told me the same thing about human interaction. They have told me that the most important thing is to simply try to get the best out of every conversation. Also, a lot of them have told me that it's a shame that some people will go on living their lives endlessly debating about all the wrong things; unproductive things. Example of a waste of time for the casual human being who doesn't do in-depth research on the subject of human personality: Why am I talking to this person? Is this worth anything? Is this person thinking the same thing? Etc...
Do you agree that it would be better for that kind of person to simply enjoy the moment? Why needlessly complicated yourself and further create a gap between you and another person who is somewhat different. Try to build bridges, don't try to build walls around everything that is different of you.
As for myself, I guess you could say I am quite the introvert and hermit; considering I have only spoke to 6 people in the past 11 months. But I am happy where I am right now and there's no telling how I will be behaving in the future.
It seems to me that people often tend to critici
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Excuse my lack of vocabulary. I am sorry if this is too much off subject. I rarely choose to write or talk to express my views. I'm sort of an innocent by-stander in the grand lines of history. I find that people often forget that they are talking to members of the same species. I almost always see this kind of thing when people are debating on the subject of human behavior. I have often wondered why we all try to give out complex explanations of the way other people behave; instead of simply enjoying people for what they are. There is almost always something to be learned from an interaction with someone; if you find that this isn't the case with a particular person, why not politely end the conversation and go do something else? If you can't end the conversation, why not bear with it for a little while? Will it be the end of the world to lose (and I use that term quite lightly) a couple of minutes of your life? Maybe that person can learn something from you. Although it may seem like speaking to some extroverts is a lack of time to some of you introverts, I advise you to keep the utmost caution. The difference between the personality type extrovert and introvert seems quite thin to me when two people are put in a situation where they are interacting. We know that, I think, introverts tend to spend most of their time seeking solitary activities and extroverts tend to spend most of their time seeking social activities. Now the only difference I find between these two ways of living is what we commonly call a choice. And we all know that we most of our choices are determined by our past experiences. Someone might have experience a certain chain of events from the first moment of awareness that lead him to become either an introvert or an extrovert. We all live out life as it makes sense to us. And I am not talking about extreme cases, I am talking of people who've learned to find a balance in their life. As long as your way of living makes you happy and you don't feel like things should be changed; then I feel no one has the "right" to judge you. I guess most of this lies in the fact that we are all individually quite ignorant of the intricate mechanisms of human interaction. We all tend to get caught up in the moment and forget all the golden rules of good human interaction; namely, simplicity, understanding, open mindness, forgiveness and so on. But who can blame anyone, and why should anyone blame anyone? I do not believe that one or the other personality type is superior to the other one... And, to be honest, I believe a balance of both is needed. I don't like to classify everything, just look how hard it is to distinguish between order, class, family, sub-family, variety, etc; when trying to class this or that particular animal, insect or plant in the vast tree of life. I don't know if you've ever spoke to an old person with all his mental faculties intact. But I have, and so far most of them, have told me the same thing about human interaction. They have told me that the most important thing is to simply try to get the best out of every conversation. Also, a lot of them have told me that it's a shame that some people will go on living their lives endlessly debating about all the wrong things; unproductive things. Example of a waste of time for the casual human being who doesn't do in-depth research on the subject of human personality: Why am I talking to this person? Is this worth anything? Is this person thinking the same thing? Etc... Do you agree that it would be better for that kind of person to simply enjoy the moment? Why needlessly complicated yourself and further create a gap between you and another person who is somewhat different. Try to build bridges, don't try to build walls around everything that is different of you. As for myself, I guess you could say I am quite the introvert and hermit; considering I have only spoke to 6 people in the past 11 months. But I am happy where I am right now and there's no telling how I will be behaving in the future. It seems to me that people often tend to critici