So I came across this image a few days ago on tumblr, the addictive site that beholds everything I love about the web, intelligence, fashion, music, film gifs, comedy and more fashion. These two words struck me at a time where I have nothing better to do than criticize the world.
Why are we always put into categories in this society? Fat-skinny, pretty-ugly, young-old, stupid-smart, introvert-extrovert?! Is there never a middle, a place of compromise and not be categorised because of the way way we are. We are always told "everyone is unique in their own way" yet they can't wait to narrow us down into pigeon holes in order to make it a easier yet meaner place, therefore also diluting people which makes us not so unique any more.
If you were to ask me what I thought of myself, an introvert or extrovert? I wouldn't have a straight answer. Introvert definition- a shy, reticent person. Extrovert definition- an outgoing, socially confident person. They seem pretty different to each other and I cant apply myself to a one single trait without the other. As I was growing up I was always extremely shy, I personally blame it on my aunts because we always got yelled at(especially me)for the simplest things and it just became easier to shut the fuck up and respect them because at the time it felt as though I was doing something wrong. But then when we hit the age of 13 and they'd ask us a question in which they would only get a very light and shy response from me, they'd fucking shout but this time for not speaking. What a fucking ironic world it is. We are conditioned into being timid little fuckers to only then be told we are never going to be anything because we wont speak up. Now I'm 19 and look back at the way I was treated I now realise that they are just bullies. Even though they raised us like that (uncles and aunts, not my rents) I've still managed to turn out a lot smarter than their own children. I'm not being big headed, just realistic. I used to be the kid in the family that got screamed at by my aunt, and traumatised and scared by my cousins because I was weaker than them, but only ever me, never the other cousins. And now I'm heading to uni, partying, going out with my firends, enjoying life to a regulated extent; because I was raised by the parents who would play and make jokes with their nieces and nephews and not shout at them like there parents would us, and respected there own children and sent them on school trips; whilst all my other cousins instead leave education once the law allows them to for them to wind up either married or helping out with the family business; I know real ambitious of them. Also money definitely isn't a problem with them because believe it or not they can afford whatever they want because they've worked all there lives, but we're the poor ones with all the ambiton but no respect. Poorest but smartest; who needs money when you have knowledge of the real world anyways.
There are times when everyone can be shy and extremely nervous to socialise but can also have the ability to be super confident in a totally different comfortable environment and with different people. Its the way you were raised and how comfortable you are within different situations and how you make of it, how you've made yourself a more confident person and how you can instantly take it back down to a timid level whenever you please. Because believe you me I used to be the target that would cry and never bite back, but now I'm the fucking smart one that knows not to put up with family bullshit by not being the first to check up on them; I'm the younger one they should ask me(just how I do with my younger cousins), I give no fucks no more. Introvert, extrovert; does it fucking matter? Yes and no; it depends on your own views at the end of the day. The person you are in the present, the path that got you there. This is only my path and my opinion, I call bullshit on being an introvert or an extrovert until they create some in-betweens and then some.
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