RSSIt’s Because I’m an Introvert!
March 17th, 2006 | View Comments
I’ve spent a lot of time trying to find something to write about lately, something that’s not the “stitch and bitch” controversy, and not finding anything. I was reading “Caring for Your Introvert,” an article I just posted to my del.icio.us links, and came across this passage:
The worst of it is that extroverts have no idea of the torment they put us through. Sometimes, as we gasp for air amid the fog of their 98-percent-content-free talk, we wonder if extroverts even bother to listen to themselves.
And then it hit me: I have these spans of non-blogging (my last real entry about a non-knitting topic was from the end of January) because I’m an introvert. I suppose that should have been patently obvious, but for some reason it wasn’t.
And I suppose it matters that not only am I an introvert, but I’m an INTJ, a very specific type of introvert that is particularly focused on goal-directed action.
When I first started Thought Bubbles in June 2001, I took some pains to distinguish my site from a “blog”, insisting that it was a journal. I perceived blogs to be exactly the kind of “98-percent-content-free talk” that introverts are supposed to abhor, and I did not want to be a part of that.
I’ve relented on the “blog” point, partly because the nature of blogging itself has evolved, and partly because the word “blog” has become so ubiquitous. But I still try to post things I think have actual content, which means I that I mostly use this space to editorialize on various issues.
My life isn’t interesting enough to justify the bandwidth, and the internet really doesn’t need any more random navelgazing. I wind up deleting a lot of half-finished entries simply because I feel like they’re just repeating what’s already been said better elsewhere, or because they’re no longer timely, or because I’ve decided that it’s just better to keep my mouth shut.
I appreciate those of you who have been my regular readers for a while, who are willing to sit through the long dry spells while I rack my brain for something I think is worth saying, and then through the long wet spells when I get obsessed with a particular topic and can’t stop writing about it.
There may be something new coming along pretty soon; Andrew Sullivan’s recent posts about South Park episode “Trapped in the Closet” might have inspired me. Stay tuned!
Yvonne posted this on March 17th, 2006 @ 8:26pm in Blogging, Psychology/Neuroscience | Permalink to "It’s Because I’m an Introvert!"
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