The previous post was short, but led so some awesome comments discussions. I so love when that happens, and I thank you all for giving me food for thought, inspiration for life, and lots to blog about in the coming days and possibly longer. The outpouring of response has been so great that it overflowed into my email Inbox and I still haven’t been able to craft sufficiently grateful responses to each of you who wrote. Some of you wrote as I was really struggling with feeling the pain of transitions I was simply not interested in making, but that I felt, somehow, that I must. Others wrote after I determined that who I was and what I wanted mattered, and that part of who I am is an introvert (though this is not an exact definition, as you will know if you ever come to one of my live shows!).
As I’m still pondering this so deeply that much of it has not found words, I’ve not yet found my blogging/writing voice on this subject yet. I know it’s coming, and I look forward to what I write. In the meantime, this lovely TED talk, recommended in the comments of the previous post by blogger extraordinaire Susan of 29 Black Street (a truly beautiful and inspiring blog by a creative an artistic genius who also happens to be an introvert), made me laugh and cry and breathe a little easier. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
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January 8, 2013 at 8:12 pm
Jocelyn
I’ve been scanning back through the previous posts now and am impressed at the depth and quality of thinking you’re putting into this. Introversion doesn’t equate to shyness or a reluctance to perform–in fact, most actors and performers are introverts (trying to remember where I read this); the extrovert/introvert difference is more about how you recharge your batteries. Extroverts gain energy from being around people, while introverts need to retreat in order to regain energy. It’s such an interesting thing to consider, all in all. I know I used to be much more extroverted than I am now–so then there’s the fact that we aren’t one way for life but, rather, that this personal trait is fluid and dynamic!
January 10, 2013 at 9:59 pm
MakingSpace
I agree with all you say – I used to consider myself an extrovert, but in the last decade I find that I MUST recharge in solitude or I cannot function at all out in the world, or even in my house. I’m glad to know I’m in good company, as a performer/introvert. I love having the lights on me, the audience looking on and appreciating, and then I want to go home.
Thank you for your kind words about my posts. I have written my heart out here in the last few years, and I don’t know how I would have gone through my journey without having this place to just write it all out.