Practically every year, I throw a HUGE Halloween party
every year, dear god!
I am content to
attend a huge party about once a year.
I have thrown a huge party exactly once, my Last Day of Youth party the day before I turned 30. I also had one other party, to celebrate a new house, new job, and new wife, which was big, but not huge.
And none of the nonsense about "energy", like the cartoon in the post before - I get my energy from exactly the same place as my extroverted girlfriend: from adrenotriphosphate, derived from the calories in carbohydrates, fats, and occasionally proteins.
Okay, I think we need to divide the introverts into two categories:
1) the far-too-literal introverts who tend to be scientists, engineers, accountants, etc and;
2) the more free spirited introverts like artists and musicians who can take a joke :P
ok, ok - but even if I take "energy" to mean "stimulant", I still don't think its accurate.
I mean, even if you're an extrovert, do you really end a more-stressful-than-usual 11 hour work day thinking "I can finally go to a (party/bar/game night) to recharge from this draining day"? If some people feel energized by being around people being social, why don't all parties go from Fri night until Sun night non-stop? It's silliness!
And I don't feel particularly tired from being around people, its just that given the option of going out and talking about random crap while drinking alcohol or dancing to music I don't especially like or just trying to find something interesting to say to people I barely know, and staying at home reading or playing video games, the latter almost always sounds more appealing.
Or, like, with communication - I never liked the phone, so many people just seem to want to
talk, its like the mere fact of hearing someone's voice makes it more "meaningful" or something. I just want the information.
Especially for Craigslist transactions. It says in my ad, very clearly: Please email me for the address. I can not always answer or make phone calls.
So then they email me with "call me" and a phone number. What the hell? If I was looking for a date, sure, lets be all personal. All we need to do is exchange an item for cash. Why does this have to be personal?
I think intro/extro-verts is like cats and dogs.
A dog always wants to be where the people are, and it also wants its human to think well of it. It wants approval.
A cat wants affection and attention from its human just like a dog, but it couldn't care less what that human thinks of it as in individual.
