I am more than happy spending time on my own. On days where I have nothing to do -no lectures, no seminars and still three meals worth of food in the house- I spend about 91% of my time alone in my room, and another 6% either in the bathroom or kitchen. Even when there are other people in the house, I'm happy to be by myself and never feel the need to go and socialise with the people who are in. At least not for my benefit anyway, which is why the remaining 3% of my time is spent downstairs interacting with anyone else in the house. And I am more than happy to spend most of my days in this way. Yes, I get bored occasionally because I run out of things to do; but I always find something in the end. And that is usually how almost every free day in my life is spent.
Then I have phases where I really want to go out and see people. I'm not going to lie, this social phase of mine is usually an annual thing that occurs during the summer break when I have lots more free time than usual and when more of my good friends are in closer proximity to me. But even when this phase of mine is at its peak, my social life is nowhere near as busy as the base-rate of some of my extroverted friends' typical social lives. Some of my extroverted friends always seemed to be out doing something all year round; whereas I'm the person who's more willing to be social for a six to eight week period during July and August. By that I mean during my summer breaks I'm slightly more likely to initiate discussing the possibility of meeting up with people, whereas for the rest of the year other people initiate it and invite me along to stuff. Then depending on my mood and if I feel like I've had a satisfactory amount of 'me time' that week, I'll tag along.
Total digression: I read a statement somewhere that was along the lines of "Introverts don't get ready for a party; they gather strength for a party." In terms of me individually I would say that that statement describes me astonishingly well. Getting ready for a party, or any social gathering for that matter, always involves a lot of mental preparation in my experience. I also find I sometimes reassure myself as well if I'm feeling particularly nervous about the event for whatever reason(s), be it the type of event or the people that will be there etc.
Anyway, now that I've indulged my random, little memory, back to what I was originally saying...
I'm currently at the peak of my 2014 social phase. Now some of you may be expecting me to talk about a whole week's worth of socialising, but the thing is last week I only left the house three times. Leaving the house three times in a week to go out and meet with another person is what the peak of my social life is like. That might make some people laugh -to be quite honest when I realised that I chuckled to myself a little bit- and think that I can hardly claim that to be a social life, but to me it is one. And now the majority of my friends have gone back to their universities, so I can no longer easily indulge my slightly increased sociability -although I do have three plans in the works with some of my friends who are around for a bit longer- and I'm not really too fussed about it. Even when I'm feeling more social and would like to go out and hang with some of my friends, I'm still quite happy to spend the day at home in my own little bubble.
Do any of you guys have these sort of phases? Or the reverse if you're an extrovert?
-Hannah. :)
Total digression: I read a statement somewhere that was along the lines of "Introverts don't get ready for a party; they gather strength for a party." In terms of me individually I would say that that statement describes me astonishingly well. Getting ready for a party, or any social gathering for that matter, always involves a lot of mental preparation in my experience. I also find I sometimes reassure myself as well if I'm feeling particularly nervous about the event for whatever reason(s), be it the type of event or the people that will be there etc.
Anyway, now that I've indulged my random, little memory, back to what I was originally saying...
I'm currently at the peak of my 2014 social phase. Now some of you may be expecting me to talk about a whole week's worth of socialising, but the thing is last week I only left the house three times. Leaving the house three times in a week to go out and meet with another person is what the peak of my social life is like. That might make some people laugh -to be quite honest when I realised that I chuckled to myself a little bit- and think that I can hardly claim that to be a social life, but to me it is one. And now the majority of my friends have gone back to their universities, so I can no longer easily indulge my slightly increased sociability -although I do have three plans in the works with some of my friends who are around for a bit longer- and I'm not really too fussed about it. Even when I'm feeling more social and would like to go out and hang with some of my friends, I'm still quite happy to spend the day at home in my own little bubble.
Do any of you guys have these sort of phases? Or the reverse if you're an extrovert?
-Hannah. :)
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