Personal Issues

Continuing off from the last post, World issues, the second question is personal issues: Talk about your issues. How issues can shape a person? What are the solutions to rectify it? Hmm hmmmm, well here's where i confess, i am an introvert. I've always suspected i was one, so i decided to take a little quiz from here, turns out i really am one. No surprise there, seeing as i tend to feel more comfortable being by myself.
People generally mistake introverts a lot, based on a few sites i went on, like here, which explains about the definition of introverts, and here, where this guy's blog clears up a few misunderstandings on introverts. Please do read them, i find them quite accurate in defining how i am, as an introvert. And probably a lot of people out there who didn't realise they were one, can finally find the answers they've been seeking to their unsocial-like behaviors.

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According to wiki,

Extraversion and introversion are typically viewed as a single continuum. Thus, to be high on one it is necessary to be low on the other. Carl Jung and the authors of the Myers–Briggs provide a different perspective and suggest that everyone has both an extroverted side and an introverted side, with one being more dominant than the other. Rather than focusing on interpersonal behavior, however, Jung defined introversion as an "attitude-type characterised by orientation in life through subjective psychic contents" (focus on one's inner psychic activity); and extraversion as "an attitude type characterised by concentration of interest on the external object", (the outside world).

Which typically means extroverts are more active around crowds and feeling more drained when alone, while  introverts are the opposite of that.

In the third site i linked, which leads to "10 myths about introverts", as mentioned by Carl,

It can be terribly destructive for an Introvert to deny themselves in order to get along in an Extrovert-Dominant World. Like other minorities, Introverts can end up hating themselves and others because of the differences. If you think you are an Introvert, I recommend you research the topic and seek out other Introverts to compare notes. The burden is not entirely on Introverts to try and become "normal." Extroverts need to recognize and respect us, and we also need to respect ourselves.

And i agree with him. Introverts apparently, make up only more or less 25% of the population globally, meaning the remaining percentage falls to the extrovert category. Which just makes it a little bit harder to live in an extroverted world, where society expects everyone to be the same. Conformity. Acting out of the comfort zones of the majority puts you at the other side of the line that separates the norm, with the strange and unknown.

Always struggling, always challenging myself, i try to interact with people more. Sometimes it can be a bit of a challenge to think of a topic to speak about, at least i had the initiative to try. And try i shall. To succeed, one must always go through the process of failing. If it doesn't work out, try, and try again. Without overexerting myself, of course.