Coping With
an
Introvert
T
here he/she sits in a corner alone
during the party; you have been
invited to, lost in his/her thoughts
and you start to wonder what is wrong with
her/him. Within an hour or so, he/she says
she/he wants to go home. And the party
hasn't even started yet. You start to realize
that was what he/she always does when
around people, particularly strangers. Does
he/she hate people, or just afraid of them?
You wonder.
Our misunderstanding (if we don't
understand them yet) of introverts might
stem from the perspective from which we
view them. In most cases extroversion is
encouraged as that would propel people
farther in whatever venture they had
chosen. As a result, we tend to look at the
world from that perspective. Whoever
doesn't reflect the extroversion
characteristics maybe looked at as boring,
antisocial and maybe going nowhere.
However, looking at human nature,
we realize that it is a mixture of both
extroversion and introversion. Even if it is