"Peaceful" or "Lonesome"?

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by roger the rabbit

Awww' That's what being an extrovert is all about, I see a lady bunny & get this impulse.
Thats why we will rule the world by out breeding everybody else - or is that some religion which I must not mention in case I offend them

That is incorrect. I will rule the world.

[roger the rabbit]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

That is incorrect. I will rule the world.

Naw! It's no good hiding behind that duck avatar I know you are really a bunny or was that a pussy-cat

[slayda]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

I would gladly hold your hand if it would make it easier for you. I sort of picked up on your shyness when we had our meetup. Don't know why, you are not too ugly and have a charming personality and sense of humor.

Holding my hand would only work if you made the other 7,998 people go away. Of course if you did that, you wouldn't need to hold my hand.

Maybe if you lined them up and let them in one at a time (with each exiting as another enters) it would work - stretched over several months/years.

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by roger the rabbit

Naw! It's no good hiding behind that duck avatar I know you are really a bunny or was that a pussy-cat

[lilac_jive]

PEACEFUL FOR GOODNESS SAKES PEOPLE!!!! ARE YOU ALL CRAZY??? CAN'T YOU JUST RELAX???!?!?!??!?!

[Laine]

I picked "you forgot" but maybe it should have been family. Do you count my cats as family or other?
They don't interupt (well, not that much) but they are there and mine seem to know when I'm down and need cheering.
Sometimes you can even prop your reader on them. :-)

[DixieGal]

Originally Posted by lilac_jive

PEACEFUL FOR GOODNESS SAKES PEOPLE!!!! ARE YOU ALL CRAZY??? CAN'T YOU JUST RELAX???!?!?!??!?!

Plenty of time for that after I'm dead. Am I right, Rog?

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

heh. once someone was describing me to someone else and said "she hasn't lost her sense of wonder".
...

Someone once described me to someone else as, "He's been having a mid-life crisis since about the age of 12".

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Good Morning! I see that I'm still the only raving extrovert to belly up and admit it. I function best in a group... correct that to "I function best as the leader of the group." The more, the merrier!
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My sweet, as I think I clarified in that other thread, I would find the interruption to my reading annoying, but that annoyance does not apply to the person doing so. I know this sounds like semantics, but the point is that no more than I expect you to try change me would I expect for you to change. I am nervous and sometimes a little embarrassed around extroverts (not as an aspect of shame, but of attention I don't desire), but they are no less on my radar of available friends than any other. They remind me of individuality. They remind me of things I don't do. They most often remind me of a life lived to the extent of all parameters, and the joy to be had in every quarter. I do not desire to be them, but I do desire that they exist in the world to complete and most brightly highlight the spectrum of human nature. So long as you're not trying to drag me along to some 8000-people rave ("COME ON! YOU'LL LOVE IT!") while knowing I'm an introvert, I am certainly open to your enthusiasm, even if I do not necessarily share it, or share it in such obvious ways.

Incidentally, I have no trouble being an introvert or "alone" in crowds. One of the most solitary places available is in the middle of a busy city.

Cheers,
Marc

[nohmi2]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Someone once described me to someone else as, "He's been having a mid-life crisis since about the age of 12".



My sweet, as I think I clarified in that other thread, I would find the interruption to my reading annoying, but that annoyance does not apply to the person doing so. I know this sounds like semantics, but the point is that no more than I expect you to try change me would I expect for you to change. I am nervous and sometimes a little embarrassed around extroverts (not as an aspect of shame, but of attention I don't desire), but they are no less on my radar of available friends than any other. They remind me of individuality. They remind me of things I don't do. They most often remind me of a life lived to the extent of all parameters, and the joy to be had in every quarter. I do not desire to be them, but I do desire that they exist in the world to complete and most brightly highlight the spectrum of human nature. So long as you're not trying to drag me along to some 8000-people rave ("COME ON! YOU'LL LOVE IT!") while knowing I'm an introvert, I am certainly open to your enthusiasm, even if I do not necessarily share it, or share it in such obvious ways.

Incidentally, I have no trouble being an introvert or "alone" in crowds. One of the most solitary places available is in the middle of a busy city.

Cheers,
Marc

Actually Marc, you have said everything that I would have said to describe myself, except, that you have done it far better than I could have done.
I enjoy watching people, but I am the one in the *coffee club* who is the quietest. Some see it as composure, which of course it isn't.

Cheers.

[Sweetpea]

Originally Posted by Laine

I picked "you forgot" but maybe it should have been family. Do you count my cats as family or other?
They don't interupt (well, not that much) but they are there and mine seem to know when I'm down and need cheering.
Sometimes you can even prop your reader on them. :-)

You've got your cat better trained than I have mine then

Mine will always butt in, demanding attention, and just take it if you don't want to give it... And using them as ereader stand won't work, if the first is laying still (finally), the second will come and bite the first in the legs and a fight will ensue... Or, the second is finally sleeping, then the first will come and bite the second in the legs and again, a fight will ensue.

At that time I'll just remove both of them from my desk (where I have two! baskets, but somehow the one that is already occupied always is the most attractive one, and they are both exactly the same...) or couch and I won't have a reader stand anymore

[Curly]

I'm with kazbates and zelda on this one -- friendly with shy undertones. I love going out with friends for a coffee after school drop-off or for drinks in the evening. I chat away happily to the older ladies at church or to the the staff at the library or to my neighbour down the street.

But don't make me go to a large party where I don't know anyone -- I'll be the one tightly gripping my drink, browsing the host's bookshelves trying to look relaxed and hoping someone will come talk to me.

But I do love to be at home on my own or with my family reading or pottering about the house. If I'm on my own, I prefer silence when I'm reading, but if other people are around and watching tv, I can tune out the background quite well.

[roger the rabbit]

Originally Posted by DixieGal

Plenty of time for that after I'm dead. Am I right, Rog?

right on Bunnykins

[kazbates]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

Someone once described me to someone else as, "He's been having a mid-life crisis since about the age of 12".



My sweet, as I think I clarified in that other thread, I would find the interruption to my reading annoying, but that annoyance does not apply to the person doing so. I know this sounds like semantics, but the point is that no more than I expect you to try change me would I expect for you to change. I am nervous and sometimes a little embarrassed around extroverts (not as an aspect of shame, but of attention I don't desire), but they are no less on my radar of available friends than any other. They remind me of individuality. They remind me of things I don't do. They most often remind me of a life lived to the extent of all parameters, and the joy to be had in every quarter. I do not desire to be them, but I do desire that they exist in the world to complete and most brightly highlight the spectrum of human nature. So long as you're not trying to drag me along to some 8000-people rave ("COME ON! YOU'LL LOVE IT!") while knowing I'm an introvert, I am certainly open to your enthusiasm, even if I do not necessarily share it, or share it in such obvious ways.

Incidentally, I have no trouble being an introvert or "alone" in crowds. One of the most solitary places available is in the middle of a busy city.

Cheers,
Marc

Marc, What a lovely way to describe our extrovert friends who are often "The Life of the Party!" They are usually the ones drawing us out of our shells and encouraging us to experience life a little more fully - albeit with the understanding that the introvert needs to take it all in at their own pace!

Originally Posted by Curly

I'm with kazbates and zelda on this one -- friendly with shy undertones. I love going out with friends for a coffee after school drop-off or for drinks in the evening. I chat away happily to the older ladies at church or to the the staff at the library or to my neighbour down the street.

But don't make me go to a large party where I don't know anyone -- I'll be the one tightly gripping my drink, browsing the host's bookshelves trying to look relaxed and hoping someone will come talk to me.

But I do love to be at home on my own or with my family reading or pottering about the house. If I'm on my own, I prefer silence when I'm reading, but if other people are around and watching tv, I can tune out the background quite well.

Curly, that's usually when my bolder Gemini half comes in handy! It kind of suppresses the shyness and out pops a more gregarious personality. I can't explain it, (and yes, I know it sounds like I've got a little of the Sybil thing happening) but in those situations, I tend to talk too much!!

Kaz

[Curly]

Originally Posted by kazbates

Curly, that's usually when my bolder Gemini half comes in handy! It kind of suppresses the shyness and out pops a more gregarious personality. I can't explain it, (and yes, I know it sounds like I've got a little of the Sybil thing happening) but in those situations, I tend to talk too much!!

Kaz

Ahh, that's what I need -- a Gemini half! On the other hand, it is fun to snoop through other people's bookshelves and see what they are reading.

[GeoffC]

Originally Posted by Curly

Ahh, that's what I need -- a Gemini half! On the other hand, it is fun to snoop through other people's bookshelves and see what they are reading.

hard to do when all the library is on an e-reader .....