For all my fellow introverts
This may be a timely reminder of how awesome you all are, and how you should not let society convince you there’s something wrong with you.
It was for me 🙂
In our family, sitting together in the same room while browsing the internet on our phones/tablet/laptop can be sometimes substituted for sitting together in the same room while reading a book. But the chances are that three quarters of us are still reading fiction on them and the other is reading blogs.
That is a wonderful video! (I too am an introvert, and yeah, sitting in the front room surrounded by family with books/computers/tablets is definitely an experience I can identify with.)
If you haven’t read it, her book Quiet: The Power of Introverts is wonderful. I finished it and was relieved. I can be sitting in a room, engaged in a TV show and still have my tablet in front of me as a barrier between myself and my family.
It’s nice, isn’t it? I was just getting all upset about our bad parenting skills (my eldest is more of an extrovert, and while she was at home the house was always full of chat & laughter. But now she’s at uni, with two introvert parents and an acutely introverted youngest, boy is it quiet!) And then this came along and made me feel better about it.
‘Relieved’ definitely sums it up 🙂