Alright… so I follow this blog called SoulPancake. It’s just about asking deep questions and then commenting on them. I found this lady named Kaschua (at least that’s her screenname) who writes the most profound comments I’ve ever seen. I don’t know how to link to the exact post I found, but here’s the text:
“As an introvert, my personality is sometimes a mystery, even to myself. I never know how I’ll react in a given situation. There are always a thousand rippling details that sway the conditions and consequently my mood and behavior. All of it is me, though.
“I won’t say I present a different person to the outside world. Say rather, the strength of that personality fluctuates, depending on who is around and how many who’s are there. I have a fairly solid grasp on what people will and won’t like me. I tend to ratchet back in front of people I feel uncomfortable around or if there’s a dominant personality hogging the spotlight.
“I have a very zany sense of humor and a caustic mouth to fuel it. At other times, I can be overly sentimental and doting. I’m inconsistent, which puts a lot of people off (at which point, I ignore them or clam up). The basic personality is the same, though. I’m driven by passion and reason. Wit and whim. It’s nothing too special.
“People so often mistake introversion for shyness or even reservation. Not always the truth. Introverts merely spend more time in their interior worlds. I spend a lot of time inside myself, but I express what I find, usually online. There’s one difference: I’m more articulate with text than speech!
“I would say that I’m always myself, unless I’m stressed or ill or have some other exterior force working against me. It’s only that I experience swings, so who is to say if there’s one ultimate me beneath the nuance and hormones and the bright, scary social world?”
Genius. I feel like it fits me just as well. If you’d like to read more, click here to go to her profile page. I’m a fan.
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Hmmm… I wonder what I qualify as. I usually do not talk to myself in my mind or think of previous experiences that deal with me. I usually have my mind on random things… things in the media, the environment, my iPod, homework due in a week, or nothing at all. Right now before reading this blog I was thinking about the benefits of this Physics class I am taking (can’t find anything yet). Is it weird that I don’t think about or analyze the consequences of what I say?Is it bad that I just say it and forget to think? Yes, now that I am finally thinking about it, yes. Hmmm… maybe I should put some WD40 on my brain cogs and get them to work faster. I spend too much time analyzing what a person is saying and then daydreaming about what they previously said while they say other things. bad bad bad.
Dang it. And I thought I was special.
can you say soulmate? :-)