ambivert acting like an extrovert prefers introversion

 

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Time.com posted the article "The Upside Of Being An Introvert (And Why Extroverts Are Overrated)" by Time's Tokyo Bureau chief Bryan Walsh and I realized that there's nothing wrong with feeling uncomfortable with large social activities involving at least 90% (okay, 50%) strangers. For the most part of my life, I had to learn to camouflage this semi-aversion to socializing by joining organizations & groups centered on something I particularly love, such as music or science.  Small group talks with people I trust or family are, understandably, exceptions to this semi-aversion.  My mother recognized my unusual interests as a young girl (star trek, paul mccartney, classical music, egon spengler, not going out, mini mouse t shirts, etc) and encouraged...coerced me to join a youth group. On hindsight, I'm grateful to my mother for that, because the day that she took me to a youth group meeting was the day I met my husband. Interesting strings of the universe, might I say.

Proud introvert...oxymoronic-ish.

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My internal issues with ins, ons, ats, etcetera leave me sleepless.  Like it's the middle of the night, everyone's asleep, my eyes are closed but really I'm having an argument with myself whether I should delete and rewrite the status/post I just entered on whatever social network platform I updated.  Linguistic vanity.

21st century grapevine

A small proportion of my peers consider social media as a waste of time or simply an outlet for random, mundane ramblings. The truth is, social media, particularly social networking platforms, are advantageous in propagating valuable information and insight to others, apart from the obvious advantage of being the recipient of such information and insights.  Self-publication of "persons of authority" should not be a turn off, but should be considered as admirable and bold since these individuals allow themselves to be vulnerable to immediate critique through comments or "@s" (in social media parlance). Scientists are now taking advantage of this medium to disseminate research and studies in real time even prior to publication in scientific journals.  Bora Zivkovic (@BoraZ on Twitter) who is the blogs editor at Scientific American recently tweeted, "...it is not the platform to trust, it is the people one trusts platform-agnostic. Follow the best on T, FB, G+ and blogs."

unoriginal

I'm one of those people who consciously absorbs fragments of other people's personalities; may it be in the form of a commonly used word, a fashion statement, an opinion, even drink preferences. Of course, this hodgepodge of imbibed attributes does not necessarily guarantee a socially likeable me, nevertheless, it gives me a sense of individuality and a certain degree of self-confidence. Like an amateur attempt to create art by making a self-portrait from magazine cutouts or a 3D "magic eye" image that you can only appreciate by blurring your eyes or crossing them in order to observe a hidden object within an otherwise boring repetitive pattern.