Prefer being alone than being with mediocre company.. When that happens, I feel more alone than EVER!
This exactly, give me alone time over poor company anytime. I don't see anything wrong with wanting good company.
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Prefer being alone than being with mediocre company.. When that happens, I feel more alone than EVER!
Let me ask you guys another question. Let's say you do have good company. Are you "able" to spend time with that company for the majority of your day or do you need an escape? I have a roommate whom I love being around (for the most part), but I have to tell him that I need my "alone time" once in a while. Which is basically like 4+ hrs every day.
Nothing against him, I just need a long time of uninterrupted thinking. He makes fun of me for it, haha. He's an ESTP, so go figure.
I can be this way also. My husband and I were on a walk a while ago and there were children walking behind us dragging along a wagon and it was making the most obnoxious scraping noise on the road and I sped up to get away from them. He said "I can't believe something like that bothers you, they are just playing!" and got all pissy at me about it. I just don't like noise sometimes, period.I prefer to be alone unless it is a very intimate setting.
And by intimate I do mean sexual.
Every once in awhile I don't mind spending time with
friends but I'd rather be physically alone. People just
really bother me. I am unreasonable. I hate any noise
that others make. You breathe too loudly? I will give
you pointed looks with every exhale or sit rigid completely
ignoring you. If you speak at me I will turn and stare
at you not blinking with a displeased look until you turn
away.
I don't really know why I am so irritable.
I never understood it when people say being by themselves is boring. I think being around people is boring. I mean, I love being around close friends, but general socializing with random people? Meh. This weekend I had to do that. It's just so boring. And the weird part is that they seem to socialize to get away from the boredom. That's totally backwards to me.
Yup, it's an introvert thing in general though, not just infj.
My point here was "extreme" alone time, and almost always preferring it over random socializing. I see people liking their alone time in general, but I seem to need more than most others? I don't know.
I prefer to be around people about just as much as I want to be alone. Some days it leans more in one direction then the other. Either way in the end it's pretty even for me.
My point here was "extreme" alone time, and almost always preferring it over random socializing. I see people liking their alone time in general, but I seem to need more than most others? I don't know.
I think in general most introverted folk like to spend time away from humanity.