I’m Not Rude, I’m Just Quiet

A group of friends sit together, giggling and tittering over idle gossip. Bouts of laughter strike sometimes, and all of them snicker over some joke. Each one of the girls contributes in telling her narrative. One, however, remains silent. Not in a harmful sense, though, because she pitches in her participation by bursting into laughter […]

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The Truth About Introverts

By definition, an introvert is “a person characterized by concern primarily with his or her own thoughts and feelings,” which sounds extremely self-centered and is only slightly accurate. Introverts aren’t homebodies or self-absorbed, anxious weirdos. My counselor explained introversion very nicely to me one time. She put it very simply: “Introverts get energy from being […]

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