and the horse that you rode in on will be the horse that’s taking you home”
I am an introvert. I create worlds and galaxies in my mind. I have populated them given them whole ecosystems, and histories. Someday I will detail them in a post but for those who know me you the depth and extent of my world building. All that to say I spend so much of my time in my own mind it’s almost sad. The creation of these ideas and places is something I really really enjoy but sadly my ability to manifest these things outside my own head is limited. I don’t draw that well and I don’t write very well on a single topic for very long. Basically I am like a guy whose heart is in running but suffers from a severe limp.
Introversion is almost like a character flaw or an illness. People sort of avoid introverts, don’t tend to notice us or be particularly inclined to get to know us it’s almost as if they are afraid close contact will get them infected to. (Run from the introverts, lest we become one of them and share in their social awkwardness.)
As an introvert you will be less likely to have connections, to get the job, girl, and or social recognition as that happy go-lucky extrovert that everybody loves so very much.
That said there is one thing left to us, the introverts of the world, and that great calling is heckling and a fierce devotion to cold solid logic…and computer games. That’s right we alone together will stem the tide of extroverts by posting witty criticisms on blogs and world of warcraft forums. We will play Magic and Killer Bunnies and many late nights will be devoted to Settlers of Catan and we will scoff at their nights at clubs, bars and massive parties. What uses have we of other people when we have ourselves and science fiction novels. We win by default, blessed default. That default by the virtue of self entertainment.
All of that was said tongue in cheek but…I really do love all the pursuits I mentioned…yes folks an introvert and a geek. So put that in your canoe and row with it.
3 comments:
Amen brother! Screw all you popular friendly people! Except you, Elaine. :)
And never forget this one eternal and immutable truth: THEY NEED US. As a certain preacher I know once said, and I paraphrase, "All those geeks out there do the jobs you won't, because they love it." If nothing else, we write the code that forms the MySpace and the mail servers and the cell phone text-messaging functionality that get those extroverts through those quiet hours when they find themselves without someone to talk to.
The quote was, "Consequently, this is the reason we geeks are needed, because we spend time studying and thinking about things the rest of you hate, so you won’t have to". Then I told them to hug their friends who are nerds while I pointed out who was getting hugs from on stage. I even got a hug.
Thanks for writing this.
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