I am an introvert and a people person

This post is kind of random (when are my posts not random?). But I have had this on my mind a lot today and it has come up a lot in discussions with friends. I'm and introvert, but I am also a people person.

To many times in today's society that is extrovert dominated is introversion synopsizes with shyness. People who are shy tend to also be introverts but it is not two fold. Being introvert means that your threshold for socialization is lower than that of extroverts. Is that a bad thing? Not at all it just means that you do not get as much of a thrill from parties or enjoy small talk as much. You tend to enjoy a few close friends and be very loyal to them instead of having lots of friends that you aren't as close with.

So then how can you be a people person and an introvert? It means that you enjoy being and communicating and working with people. I myself personally enjoy spending time helping or talking to people or small groups of people but I seem to be unsure and get really nervous in big groups of people. I like to get to know people. Introverts tend to be really good and reading people there emotions and feeling that kind of thing. For me I love when I can connect and talk to people on any sort of level. I enjoy working in a people environment where we can communicate but those big parties don't seem like fun to me. So I may seem a lot more out going than your stereotypical introvert but I am an introvert and a people person.

Introverts are not shy. Usually they don't talk as much because they do not see the point in small talk and therefore don't like it. I personally hate the stereotype that introverts are shy, its so not true. Being friends with two lovely young women who both are introverts in different ways, I've been able to see that they are in no way shy you just need to get to know them.

 So just remember introverts are not always shy, and being an introvert does not mean you hate talking to people!

"No one knows what the future holds...."

I thinking about what to write a lot has come to mind. This week has in many senses been a transition week for me. This past weekend I graduated from high school and then went on the attend my freshman orientation for college.

So what's so big about having two major milestones in about 48 hours? The fact that it got me thinking about a lot of things, mainly having to do with myself and the future. Within the next few months I am going to spend a lot of time getting ready for the future and meeting new people, as well as saying good bye to adolescences.

My first thought was how am I going to manage it all? What I then began to discover is that, I tend not to push myself as hard as I should. My mother and I were talking more about exercise and staying in shape. Many people do not push themselves hard enough to find their limits or even to realize what they are capable of. I began to think a lot about my little sister. She may be younger than me in age but she has been a role model for me in this. She is always pushing herself to do better in sports or in school. Because of this hard work and dedication she is one of the smartest in her class and one of the best athletes I know. Now not to say that I do not have good qualities but one of the things I need to learn from her is how to push yourself harder and to never settle for anything. College is not going to be an easy thing but I need to push myself to do more and to be a better me in a lot of things one of them is just in general to not be so lazy when it comes to education and to exercise.

I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my future. One of the things I realized is I need to start to think about less of where I want to be in ten years and more of who I want to have impacted. A lot of the things available in my major and field of study is to travel to bring care to the less fortunate. Something that I can see myself doing. Now I've always considered myself to be a dreamer. My dreams usually tend to be around a fairytale sort of future especially when I am stressed. I think that it is very important for me to switch from being a dreamer to a doer. There is a lot of things I could be doing to better myself and the world around me if I spent less time dreaming up what could be and more time using the talents I have to make that and so much more possible.

So with this whole new thing of officially becoming an alumni of high school and moving on to the next chapter of live I need to take the time to realize who I am and who I want to be.

For my life right now my goal is to enjoy life but to push myself to work harder in what I do. That means to study harder to train harder and to be a better person. Especially to a few friends these past few weeks I have not been being too amiable to. And to myself because I have been letting myself down.

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
-Mark Twain

“Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”  
-Jim Rohn

 

Themes..... Thoughts....?

A friend of mine who has been a blogger for a few years, has been trying to get into the regular blogging habit. In order to do this she has developed three themes that she posts something that fall under that category every week. Now I know that I am a new blogger and have not been regular at all but being that I am trying to develop this into a worth while readable blog. I have thought of maybe doing something like Allison has done.

So with that thought, I have tried to think of things that relate to me. Who I am as a person. What I tend to do with my life. Now I like to call myself an aspiring nurse. I am going to nursing school and have always liked to work with people. I have been a dancer since I could walk, and even though I have never danced competitively dance has inspired me and music always gets me moving. I work in a living history museum and am kind of a history geek. I love making things with my hands, I can knit, crochet, weave,  do hemp and bracelet making, am a novice when it comes to sewing, have dipped into the pool of quilting. I am a very thoughtful person and often like quotes and stories that make you think too much. I am a runner, but not to the extent that I enjoy running so much as I like where it can take me I like the idea of using my own body to travel however small the distance.

So I was thinking of doing a tri weekly post sort of what my friend Allison is doing, and what topics have come to mind are subject to change. But for now I was thinking of maybe doing a post to a person who this week has touched my life. I also thought of doing something that inspires me as in like a place, quote, book etc. But when coming up with a third topic I am stuck with no ideas of anything that someone else would want to read about.

The thought of just post random things has crossed my mind and not having a theme so like I said this is subject to chance but I really appreciate what it has done to enrich Allison's blog and thought that maybe it would help me to make writing at least one post a week a lot easier.