Tuesday, December 21, 2021

Naturally introverted, selectively extroverted

We may once assume that someone might simply be born either an introvert or extrovert, as if these values were biological, like skin and hair color. In fact, it has a logical explanation why someone became an introvert or extrovert, and that is a result of real experiences. It is certain paths that are so distinctive through our lifetime that determine the categories: at which end of social spectrum we fall.


I'm going to propose that we all have the tendency to become naturally introverted, at some point. First and foremost, introverted people are more likely to always be on the look of others powerfully, even before themselves. From a young age, these people would think to themselves: "What do people around me, and the unstable circumstances, want from me?" This contradict the ability that a child should have and grow more, called the freedom. As opposed to ask implicitly: "What do I want? How do I feel?", they had to attune themselves more and more, and too early, to the needs of those surrounding them.


Maybe there was an avoidant mother, or negligent caretaker, who couldn't cope with great demands. This child saw that the people needed to be looked after because, apparently they are still a child themselves deep down. Or perhaps, there was a father with an unstable temper who needed to be watched over carefully, thus creating distances and distractions in order to escape recurrences of inconvenience.


The introverts still has a future, though, despite highly liable to if they succeed brilliantly at another task: overcoming the vigilance of being with other people. They will grown to be experts (re: extroverts), as soon as they work on managing difficult characters and providing themselves with what they actually need. However, this outcome will not come true without a very high cost to their own nature.


Introverts lack of experience in being with others because they're afraid of might not actually meet everyone's expectations. Their history might teach them that the only person who could understand their true self is them. Making relationships are actually hard for introverted people. They may be excellent in raising awareness over something, but they will also be overwhelmed with the condition where binary perspective should be the one fulfilled. It's always them or me; never both.


From this point of view, introverts can start to evolve, that they increase openness between what happens when they are alone and what to give when they are with others. Introvert should ideally understand where their pessimism came from and how it entails to a relationship. The strong desire to be with someone else, only to accommodate them, can be cased slowly because solitude would never be the only route to having an authentic happiness. 


We need the time to spend on our own, but it is whom we share our energy with that matters when finding some company. If we always put ourselves second to everyone else we meet, then we couldn't help but automatically satisfy the moods of others and we're going to end up really exhausted. We always crave to be alone because being together still takes us far from who we really are, but that doesn't mean we should bottle everything up on ourselves.

Sunday, November 7, 2021

What is your hobby?

It was a normal Saturday evening, and I didn’t get to out (it’s pandemic, bic). I spent some time trying to come up with any possible excuses to not let the rest of the day gloomy. Suddenly, a thought blinked in mind: it was so simple yet motivating.

I have some books that I haven’t managed to read and I think I should start reading again in my leisure times like that. I can proudly say that reading as one of my hobbies.

What is your hobby? Are you also doing something specific in your free time? Let me know because I’m interested and probably will be doing that too later on!

 

By knowing someone’s hobby, you can try to map their nature and upbringing. In a modern era like this, I’m actually afraid that we are too glued to the social media and other passive activities (such as sleeping and online shopping) that we won’t be able to point out any other tasks to do as a hobby. I’m not saying that the previously mentioned activities are useless, but it could be more like we just don’t know what to do, or even what we want to do.

 

I once a research conducted by Society for Personality and Social Psychology on happiness. The research is titled “Valuing your Time more than Money is Linked to Happiness”. From here, we can know the importance of having hobby in human life succession. This is simply because those who do their hobbies are those who are able to cherish every chance fruitfully.

 

Trends are changing every time, and we are not going to be the same people forever. Change is good, especially when it gives you good results, too. By changing our approach to spare time, and with some nice effort in doing the activity, we can earn something from our hobbies. People should live their lives at their best, and that includes learning more, feeling better, and following their dreams. Our hobbies can take us somewhere great surely!

 

We might be too busy with our regular lives, but never say that we don’t have time. We do have free time. Most of us have a lot of time; we’re just not using it well, which one of them could have been spent for our hobbies. From your packed routine, you can keep 30 minutes for yourself: read, cook, exercise, take pictures, paint, etc. This isn’t for anybody’s show; it is for our own self-development. If we start small today, it’ll automatically adjust within our daily life and turn into something nice.

 

Your hobby may not be grande, or look perfect for you, but the point is we have a lot of fun! Try new things, or do the usual. Explore more, gain much. I like to really appreciate the time I spent fooling around with myself, and you should, too! The more you spend time for yourself, the better you’ll be (:

Friday, October 29, 2021

Happy Old Year: My insight

Happy Old Year was released in 2019. It is a Thailand movie starring Chutimon Chuengcharoensukying, who gained her fame through another hit Bad Genius, and Sunny Suwanmethanont.

Chutimon is Jean, a young woman who starts to be obsessed with minimalism. Getting back from abroad, she has learnt a lot about the way of living, to the point that she wanted all her life aspects to go in-line with it. This includes decluttering of things that (she thinks) she no longer needs. Little does she know, throwing things away is not merely an action to make things disappear. We have to also deal with the memories they hold, impressions they bring.

Sunny is Aim, Jean’s ex-boyfriend. While the setting mainly takes place in Jean’s house, I believe the relation between these two is the actual main plot of the movie. Their first encounter was shown very simple, but awkward. Their first conversations after some time is so straightforward, though their expressions and gesture may implicitly tell us that there has to be something, still, between them.


I like how the movie tries to come up with the idea of minimalism very beautifully. At times, the scenes are displayed in close-ups to portray the intense between the actors. Another point to praise is its video and music styles, which overall focus on simple things: static graphic, nature sounds, and flowy dialogues.

If we pay more attention to the movie, Jean is really the epitome of minimalism. At first.

She always wears monochromatic fits to show how she thinks very simply. She packs, sends off and banish things only because she wants her life to be freed from anything unnecessary. She thinks, it is the best for her and it should be too for anyone around her. In the end, she turned into someone emotional after meeting Aim, a person who once was so important to here. That is all about living with minimalism.

 

The things that we think we longer need may still be memorable for others as they carry meanings, feelings. If we want to simply cut them off from our lives, we have to come clear first that we are always related to many other things, that most of the times we just can’t decide what should be in our lives by ourselves.


Overall, Happy Old Year is a very enjoyable movie, and it is eye-opening. Before moving on, we have to look back. We may want to live based on tools and techniques, but there is one inevitable factor that’s always involved in it: people.