An Apology to Every Introvert I've Ever Known
Recently on Facebook my friend, Yolonda, posted this picture: After reading through this list, it stirred up a lot of thoughts within me. You see, I am an extrovert - and quite an extreme extrovert at that! I have always thought of my extroversion as a great thing, almost as if I was given a gift, but it wasn't until I married Monte that I realized my extroverted personality can also be the very thing that made me a bully. A bully. Wow, it hurts just to type that. It's true, though. The more I learned about Monte and his introverted personality, the more I realized that I have not at all been accommodating or understanding of the introverts in my life. One of the things I realized I have always done, but maybe never saw that I was doing it, was that I misinterpreted an introvert's need for down-time and quiet as them being sad or sullen. I was bound and determined to cheer them up, when in reality the very thing they needed from me was ...