On Not Being An Introvert

I came across a video that my friend shared.
A short video on the insecurity of an introvert girl who finds it really fascinating how an extrovert can actually approach people with their broad vibrant smile. She used this line "Who does that?" And being an extrovert, who cannot shut up for just a minute, I couldn't help murmuring to myself how 'offensive' it sounds. But it seems, almost all of my introvert friends seem to have the same idea about 'extroverts'. One of them, called us 'over-confident' and it kinda sucks because its true AF. We are considered to be those cheerful lads without a frown on their face, confident and knowing exactly what to say, when to say, how to laugh and when to laugh and how to make people snigger at even the silliest of our jokes. The party doesn't start without us and we don't really need those extra shots to be actually happy because we are so full of life.

Honestly, please stop. You are making us look like a cheerleader with extra huge pom poms in our hands lifting up the spirits of every sad soul. Trust me, I dont disagree to any of those. But its just that, whenever I see a hot guy approaching me, my knees shake a lot too. And my reply to his "Hi" often ends up to be "Hey. Jou bhery hawt." That puts me in a completely different zone. The weird-girl-undateable-zone. And that's worse than being friendzoned.

I have a lot of introvert friends. And they hardly socialize. Probably they call themselves 'Socially Awkward': A term we extroverts will never truly understand because a) It sounds like a disease and b) the concept is rubbish. I am sure this term has been invented by some asshole who believes that it sucks to be alone. I am sure this term is cooked up by some douche who has only one impression about introverts and I.e. "Introverts are depressed people who cry themselves to sleep." Hey, Mr. Douche, when will you understand that being alone is not always being lonely. What if you are the most active when you are alone? And that, my dear introvert friends, makes me very jealous of you. Lets talk about the different kinda emotions: Happiness, sadness, anger,...etc. Well, I dunno the name of any more emotions because obviously, I am an extrovert and we are supposed to know only one emotion and that is HAPPINESS. We are the life of the party, remember? If we be in our gloomy mood, we will bring everyone down. Honestly, people hardly give us 10 minutes to ourselves for they are mostly like "Okay, here's my sleeve. Cry on it. But you have only 10 mins. And then you NEED to smile and goof around again. We don't have time for drama. You have to make us laugh." What are we? Some pleasure bunny? We are people too, and we have emotions as well. We cant and we don't find the need to be happy always. And dont get me started on the number of times my life was all falling apart and a random douche came upto me and said "I feel so jealous of you. You have no worries." Yeah, I stabbed you 50 times, mentally.

Now that we are talking about alone time, I have also realised that introverts come online late at night. And reply to a few important people and a few important messages. They will probably come online at 2 a.m in the morning. For that's the time when no-one is effing online. (anything to skip a conversation, eh?) I am sure what shocks most of them is that fact that although everyone around them is asleep, they will still find at least one extrovert awake and so online. You must be thinking "What the eff is wrong with this person? He/she talks all day long. Isn't it enough, already?" But the reason why we are still online is probably because we are listening to a depressed introvert who we really care about. Yes, at 2a.m in the morning, we are making someone laugh and smile and making them feel good about themselves (with half closed eyes). And we do it, because we love doing it. We seriously, dont have any idea why we care about introverts so much. We just find you cute, maybe. But I am gonna be completely honest, at 2am in the morning, I actually regret texting any introvert this message: "Hey, is everything okay? I am here for you." It seems like introverts turn into extroverts at 2 a.m. Sigh!

And hey, we love 3 a.m as well. For that's the ONLY alone time we get.

What I am gonna say next is the most frustrating thing about introverts. You guys are always good at something! Be it studies or writing or singing or playing an instrument or sports. You excel in one way or the other. And thanks to tumblr and instagram, people believe that introverts are intellectual people with wisdom of all ages. Not that they are wrong or something. But the truth is, people never consider extroverts to be wise or someone who can create magic with their pen. And for a girl who loves writing, I find it very discouraging. I have always tried to take people to different worlds. The worlds I create. And I find it really tough to accept the fact that you can do that so easily. I know you have an ocean in your heart, an ocean with the unheard sound of the waves. And when people dive into your ocean, they realise its too deep and they cannot really come out of it. That way, you steal the limelight. What? I am an extrovert. I love attention. Duh! Okay, can we at least have a little deal here? Give me all those attention and I will gift you a puppy. You hate attention anyways, dont you?

Okay, I am gonna stop. Just wanted to bring out to light that its tough being an extrovert too. But who cares. We ain't gonna change much anyways. Also, we extroverts, will always go to you to talk about us. And no matter how irritating and annoying we may sound to you, we ain't letting you leave without hearing us out. Even if you say just a "Hmm" after we blabbered for like 3 hours, trust me, you make us feel a lot better and a lot lighter. So, its a choice we will never give you.

Wait, I tried talking to an extrovert once about my problems. Just wanna ask you a question, how do you tolerate us? And also, thank you for doing that.