Introverts are drained by people. Extroverts are fed by contact. That was shared by a pastor years ago and I have heard it from enough places since then to know it was not original with him.
I am an introvert. People drain me. That explains why I am so exhausted at the end of the day. I was thinking the only personal contact that makes me stronger is time with the Lord. Then I thought about a dinner I had with one friend that raised my energy level. That kept my mind on the tangent. A party drains me. It doesn’t matter if I enjoy everyone there. You can’t have in-depth contact when you are the host or when you need to say hello to a multitude. Good conversation with the right person strengthens me. I can think of times when we had another couple over and it was uplifting. What is the magic number? Even if it is one-on-one it can be draining if the other person is an air-head.
Perhaps introverts can be strengthened by individual contact by the right people but are drained by crowds and the wrong people. Do I add to other’s energy or suck it out of them? Food for my thought.
homo unius libri
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