Feeling Human Is Nice.
When was the last time you apologized for something, even something small, and truly meant it? I did that yesterday and it was a good, humbling experience. It quieted my brain for a bit, and made me very conscious of those around me and my effect on them. I didn’t do anything major, just got a bit stressed and didn’t retain my usual level of patience, but it felt really good to apologize, and then step back to acknowledge that I’m far from perfect. Sometimes, I can get stuck on autopilot and be a bit oblivious to my surroundings. Maybe it’s an introvert thing, I dunno.
Also, I’ve been craving quiet, deep conversation lately. Not debate about politics or religion, something much more philosophical. What value is there in the way our culture works? Where do I belong in the big picture, and how can I be happy there? Where do I hope to be in 10 years, and with all the unknowns, how can I feel confident that I’ll get there, or at least close? How do other people determine their goals; what influences them? How many of our daily decisions are conscious? Does intrinsic motivation really exist?
I’m always full of questions. Always.
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Full of questions are good, I’m looking for people I can talk about things without them getting overly emotional too. People tend to get like that, you know?:(
You’re an INTJ? Me too. That’s one of the rarest personality types; less than 1% of the population has it. I had a draft of a blog post about this for a while, and now I’m inspired to finish it up and post about it for tomorrow’s blog post.
I haven’t had a really good conversation in a while, either. I come from such a different place than a lot of people, though, because of my (non) religious, humanistic views, and then my libertarian (lower case “L”) views of “live and let live”. It’s hard for me to get too deep into conversations with people without them becoming, at best, religious disagreements.
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I guess I haven’t taken the official test in a long time… don’t remember what I used to be back in high school… but every online test I’ve taken in the past few years has me as INTJ, or INTP (roughly 5% of all results) if I’m feeling particularly care-free on the day I take the test. The INTJ descriptions fit me best as well, so I think it’s pretty accurate.