Introversion...

These days just about 95% of the internet is claiming that they’re introverts, and I started wondering, so I decided to try taking a personality test (the Jung-typology test) based on the works of the psychiatrist Carl Jung and the writer Isabel Myers-Briggs. The test defines your personality based on extraversion(E)/introversion(I), sensing(S)/intuition(N), thinking(T)/feeling(F) and judging(J)/perceiving(P). In this test I ended up with the result INFJ, but what interested me most was the fact that I tested to have a 89% preference to introversion over extraversion, when the fact is that a lot of the so called “introverts” on the internet in fact aren’t introverts at all. And Chris who thought he was strongly introverted was actually only slightly introverted - but then I started thinking about it. And I’ve come to the conclusion that the internet’s perception of introversion is quite wrong, and bear with me here - because I am largely basing this on my experience…

A thing I’ve noticed a lot is that people seem to think being an introvert is the same as not liking people - it’s really, really not. Others seem to think it’s the same as being bad at socialising (this is the case with Chris), for which the same goes - it’s wrong.

Being an introvert is about being fine just being alone, that doesn’t mean you never need social interaction, it just means you’re more comfortable being on your own. And I think it’s a lot like that with most of the people in my family, my parents do have people over every once in a while but they’re not the kind of people to be some place every weekend. Though my mom seems to think I’ve taken it to extremes - I rarely see people “in real life” as she says, which is true, I don’t go visiting friends after school all that often (pretty much never), Sille and I do plan sleepovers every once in a while and I usually go to the parties I get invited to but… Honestly, after a day at school, even if it’s not a long day, I’m exhausted from the amount of social interactions I have to make, because when I’m out (in school or doing other things) I can’t just say that I need half an hour to myself - because for some reason that’s weird. It’s been widely accepted in my family that I don’t show up for most family parties, though my parents make me go every once in a while so the family doesn’t think I’m dead.

What annoys me is that the internet (maybe especially tumblr) seems to think that “being an introvert” allows you to be mean to people - it does not - you don’t have to hate people to be an introvert, I love people I just don’t love being around them for too long.

So introverts are (or at least can be) nice people, we just sometimes need alone time and space, because that’s how we recharge.

Anywho, I’m off!

Short vacation-update-thingy

From Randers Regnskov, wuhu!

It has been a busy week as usual but mostly because we've had our fall vacation and I really haven't been home much. There've been a party, a Disney-marathon-sleepover, a day in Randers Regnskov (Rainforest if you want it in English) and 3 lovely days in Aalborg where I visited a friend of mine. Today I've been doing my homework and I feel like the vacation disappeared in two seconds when I just happened to blink. But what I really wanted to say is that I'm very glad that I had the chance to spent some quality time with my friends. I appreciate that my friends want to watch Disney movies with me, go on 'adventures' in rainforests and don't mind walking the entire day, going from bookshop to bookshop, trying not to spent all the money on lovely books. I truly had a great week and I had really hoped when I woke up this morning that I was going to have another week off. Sadly this isn't the case, I have my math assignment laughing at me saying I better finish it before Tuesday. So altogether I just wanted to thank all my friends for being, well, my friends and for not turning insane will being in my company! I can be an odd hamster to be around I admit that. And I think that's it, I don't really have anything else to say this week, sorry about that! Oh well... Sille is out!  

animals

I started thinking this week about how all personalities are a bit like an animal of some kind, and I came to the conclusion that Cecilie as a hamster or something mouse-like, because she's always silent and hiding in the corners as if she's afraid to be eaten if she talks. Chris is a dog, always loyal and wanting of love expect from when he wants to eat or sleep .And I'm cat which I wrote a little poem thing about:
I'm a cat,

I can go off on my own for days,
And I come back craving only ten minutes of love,
I can watch apathetically as things happen around me,
And then when I've had enough I scratch and harm the one holding me.
I can want your love one moment,
And wander off alone the next.
(titled "I am a cat" or "I should stop doing drugs" I'm not sure which one to go with yet :P)

Anywho, I have to go to Copenhagen, now.

bais

Why I despise horror movies!

Hello dear readers, I'm taking over for Sidsel this week (because I'm so lovely) and since I had no idea of what to talk about I've chosen the topic my friend Markus suggested: "Why I hate horror movies!" So here goes. First of all I don't understand why people want to get scared. Seriously, after I watched The Ring (at the age of 13) I've been scared every time I was alone in a dark room. A couple of days afterwards I would jump up from the chair when the phone rang as well... So why this need to be scared of something? I suppose some people get some kind of adrenalin-kick out of it or something but me on the other hand, I just get so scared that I can barely sleep. Once I was at a classmates' birthday party and we watched The Woman in Black (with Daniel Radcliffe, HARRY WHAT ARE YOU DOING), and it was filled with jumpscares I was dying. A girl I didn't know the name of was stroking me on my back when I hit my face at Camilla's shoulder. That is not an amusing evening in my opinion.

Secondly  I don't like the plots, well I mean, I don't like the non-existing plots in many horror movies. Though I haven't seen many horror movies (luckily) but those I've seen didn't have the greatest plots and from what I can tell from my friends that is very common in this genre. So why, why watch them if the plots aren't even well-written?

Thirdly I don't understand how people can be so stupid in these films. Seriously, if you hear a mysterious noise from the dark, cold, old part of the abandoned house you're in, don't go near it, run for God's sake! Try using your brain for once! But no, of course not, they have to see where this noise comes from and BANG then they've been killed by a ghost girl who was drowned in a well years ago. I don't get it, really, I don't. Horror movies are filled with cliché characters who are just plain stupid and we all know that only one or two of the people in the film are going to survive anyway and it's never difficult to guess who - the main character!

No I don't get this genre mostly because it scares the living *beep* out of me but also because they have uncreative and not-surprising plots with dead boring, cliché characters who are most likely going to die anyway... Yep, Sille is out!