Seriously, it’s going to bite you in the ass sooner than later that you’ve embraced being “introverted” as an identity or virtue. You are the product of several millions years of successful social evolution and small communities banding together for survival, you are hard-wired to talk to people and have physical and emotional closeness with others. You will only become more depressed and more alone feeling the longer you put off exercising this survival-essential muscle.
I really am an old man screaming at clouds, and I am trying to pass on life advice I wish I had learned sooner, as someone who once identified as a sheltered introverted chud, my life and opportunities improved many times over when I put some effort into challenging myself to socialize more and learn how to small-talk properly and make people feel comfortable around me.
It’s wild because there are “influencers” trying to spin this as some kind of jedi mind trick that it takes courses and books and techniques to get good at making people like you, when literally all you have to do is listen and ask a lot of questions. Coworkers, classmates, people at the checkout counter, people who smile at you at the coffee shop, it’s all opportunities to get to know other humans and make connections. Just don’t have an agenda, just learn to actually like people. “I hate people” is a great bumper sticker or meme text, but you can’t internalize that lesson, you will live a lonely life if you can’t find things to appreciate about other human beings. We’re all in this together and nobody gets out alive, the sooner you start learning to “party up” and form groups with random players the better your end-game loot will be.
You dipshits need to practice talking to people.
Seriously, it’s going to bite you in the ass sooner than later that you’ve embraced being “introverted” as an identity or virtue. You are the product of several millions years of successful social evolution and small communities banding together for survival, you are hard-wired to talk to people and have physical and emotional closeness with others. You will only become more depressed and more alone feeling the longer you put off exercising this survival-essential muscle.
You kinda seem like an old man, screaming at clouds…
But you’re right, 100 percent. XD
I really am an old man screaming at clouds, and I am trying to pass on life advice I wish I had learned sooner, as someone who once identified as a sheltered introverted chud, my life and opportunities improved many times over when I put some effort into challenging myself to socialize more and learn how to small-talk properly and make people feel comfortable around me.
It’s wild because there are “influencers” trying to spin this as some kind of jedi mind trick that it takes courses and books and techniques to get good at making people like you, when literally all you have to do is listen and ask a lot of questions. Coworkers, classmates, people at the checkout counter, people who smile at you at the coffee shop, it’s all opportunities to get to know other humans and make connections. Just don’t have an agenda, just learn to actually like people. “I hate people” is a great bumper sticker or meme text, but you can’t internalize that lesson, you will live a lonely life if you can’t find things to appreciate about other human beings. We’re all in this together and nobody gets out alive, the sooner you start learning to “party up” and form groups with random players the better your end-game loot will be.
Well damn. You sure have it figured out now. If everyone did what you just wrote, the world would be incredible. :)