I test out at 80-100% I Metsa but I work with people every day but there are times where I def need to recharge like right now because I went to a crowed festival and I know I have a party to go to tonight. :)
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Hee hee, Schminken, that's the reason I learned to drive, I figured that if Triffids took over the world, I would need to know how to drive big lorries full of supplies out of a stricken capital city, lol. Metsa, I know I am an introvert, I know people find me easy to talk to (years of interviewing) and I can now small talk the hind leg off a donkey and be as sociable as all get out but boy, as Schminken says, does it take a lot of energy. I get very tired after being sociable and just need time by myself to recharge my batteries and chill out. If I have the choice between a party (unless it's with my family and closest friends -- actually, my family hate parties too, lol) and a night at home with a book or the telly and my cats, I'll take the night at home every time!
I would love to hear more about you. Still waters run deep, as they say. Look at Emily Dickinson, it was a exhausting day for her if she visited more than two rooms in the house, but think how wonderful it would have been to know the mind that created that awesome poetry!
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I agree Jcat, sometimes people think I'm an extrovert, but I can talk my mom's ear off because I know her, I'm not like that in public. I'm the person who is in the corner of the room ready to go home and relax. :)
Posted 1 year ago by Duchess&&Gabriel #
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Emily Dickinson
I'm nobody! Who are you?
Are you nobody, too?
Then there's a pair of us -- don't tell!
They'd advertise -- you know!How dreary to be somebody!
How public like a frog
To tell one's name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!I use this in my classroom--one of the very favorites!
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I found the personality inventory interesting. I looked at the people that shared the same personality and they listed Robert Burns the Poet Laureate of Scotland--one of my favorites. My all time favorite is Christina Rossetti--I also love her brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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I'm an introvert, too. I have people coming at me all day long at work and all I want when I get home is quiet. Sometimes I don't even answer the phone if I know it is someone who will talk and talk and talk. I get really stressed and unhappy if I don't get my alone time. My closest friends understand this
Posted 1 year ago by Cat talk rules #
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I can relate, sometimes I put my phone in the other room and take some time to either read or relax.
Posted 1 year ago by Duchess&&Gabriel #
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That's why God invented the answering machine. I love my answering machine. There are somedays I don't answer the phone at all. I hate talking on the phone.
Posted 1 year ago by paulajeanne #
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I wonder if it means anything that so many of us here on board test as introverts. Like many others here I enjoy being out with groups but find it exhausting as well, I have a friend however that if she doesn't get out among people frequently she gets out of sorts. I don't think she will ever understand how tiring it is for me to be active and social frequently. (the online test I came up ISTJ)
Posted 1 year ago by TrufflesMom #
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I wondered that too TM. Could it be that many extroverts are too busy to sit down and just rest with a kitty on their lap? I have a friend who doesn't understand as she has to be up and doing something ALL the time! Hmmm, that is a very interesting observation that you made. Anyone else, what do you think? As others have stated here, if I have to, I can force myself to be out in public, but am always so glad to get home to solitude.
Posted 1 year ago by paulajeanne #
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DG I am also an introvert but talk off the ears of those that I know. I like just relaxing and listening and reading. I often just enjoy someone's company while we both do our own thing.
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I also get stressed if I don't get my alone time. I get tired out and there is just something soothing and relaxing about watching my cats at play and snuggling them when they are tired out :) -
I don't know if it's aging or what but, I've had to take the test several times (probably some manic disorder of some kind,lol) because a few questions kept making me question the meaning or the way I read them.
Anyways...I still end up an ISFJ but, the percentages are different. I don't Even like one of the famous personalities that are the same as myself (unfluffy thoughts of being sorted w/Jane Fonda).
BTW....can someone tell me who Frederic Chopin is? I feel like I lead a very sheltered life when asking that question. -
He is a musician Feral--not sheltered his music isn't quiet as popular anymore, but I love classical music too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNSNwcFDeuc&feature=fvst
Check out his Nocturne!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqV8RdVByZM&feature=related
I love the visuals used with the music.
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Wow SM!! That's almost freaky. I've loved the sound of piano from almost as far back as the womb. Never understood why but, always have. I can't read a note of music but, have taught myself several bits of music myself. I even remember wanting to take piano lessons when I was a kid. Money was never there so that never happened.
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PJ, for me the caller ID and answering machine take the place of a maid or butler in days gone by. Its not always convenient to talk on the phone and sometimes I don't want to talk. I won't pick up after eight thirty or nine at night. I tell people repeatedly that I have to be to work early and keep an early schedule so if they insist on calling late to bad. I think thats why email is great but some people just insist on calling and late.
Posted 1 year ago by Cat talk rules #
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PJ,
Yes, I saw the magnificent mythical lizard/wyrm adorning your person. I must say it reminds me of the drawing I permitted my daughter to maintain on her face in high school.
She was an artistic sort who while learning to put on eyeliner had her elbow jogged. The resultant line inspired her to draw a dragon on her face and ask if she could wear it to school. I said O.K. but you have to get up early enough to create the masterpiece and be to school on time.
We went to pick up an assortment of cheap eyeliner and lip-liner pencils in assorted colors. She kept up the drawing for over a month before tiring of the ritual. Scared her gymnastics coach / chemistry teacher almost into a coronary. He envisioned a real tattoo.
To this day she does not sport body art because of a fear of becoming bored with the selection.
I admire the better examples of such body art but have the same fear of ennui setting in. To commit to a piece, takes real courage.
I commend your spunk.
Posted 1 year ago by ailuromaniac #
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Hoo boy,Ail, I could never have one on my face! Don't think I could get tired of Fred though, haven't really had him that long, and he is easy to keep private. At the time when I got him, (just a few years ago) I told people I wanted to give the undertaker a real shock, here's this staid old lady with a really kicking tatt!
Sandy me too. I think email is fantastic, as I really really don't like to talk on the phone but can type up a storm! When I was growing up we were on a party line, and my dad would get so mad at neighbor kids who were always on the phone! Well, I learned really fast not to be on the phone. Then when I moved into town to live with my grandparents to go to HS, their phone was a business phone, so I was never on that either! Course this was way before the days when teens had their own private line much less cells!
Posted 1 year ago by paulajeanne #
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PJ, We didn't have a phone until I was 16 and then it was a party line--you couldn't talk long. :) That may be part of why I'm not big on them. I like email because I can do it at a good time for me and you (or whoever) can answer at a good time for them. I really think cell phones and texting makes for rudeness. People always have to take that call or text--
I like Fred, too. I've been thinking maybe I should . . . shock quite a few people because I'm a staid old lady, too. :)Posted 1 year ago by Cat talk rules #
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CTR, what I think is funny is I feel the same way you do about email vs texting but I heard a survey that says kids think that email and phoneing are rude and texting is best because they don't have to respond right away. (when did I become one of the old folks?!)
Posted 1 year ago by TrufflesMom #
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hmmm, I don't know TM. I know I am one of them since my body lets me know everyday. My spirit is still young.
Posted 1 year ago by Cat talk rules #
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It doesn't help that I just changed jobs and it seems I am the oldest person on the team - by at least 10 years! These people all have infants, my nephews are in their mid-twenties.
Posted 1 year ago by TrufflesMom #
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I know what you mean TM. I work with college kids and they think I'm ancient (I'm 60) and the thirties bunch just think I'm old. Thankfully there are a few people my age; It would be hard if there weren't a few more who remembered the same things I remember :)
Posted 1 year ago by Cat talk rules #
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