Understanding Introverts In A World Not Made For Them

A young boy wakes up to a cold dark morning with the sound of his alarm clock practically screaming “WAKE UP! WAKE UP!” He sits up in his bed and then falls back down again feeling too exhausted to even get out of bed so he painstakingly forces himself to walk over to the bathroom get showered and changed and get ready for school. He eats his breakfast and then almost falls asleep in the bus on the way to school. He goes through all his classes thinking “I’d rather be coding or doing something potentially more useful for my future.” He keeps quiet and finishes his work only to return home, go to bed and repeat it all over again.

The world of today isn’t the most ideal place for everyone. It’s all about expectations, Grades this studies that. Actually these expectations are what the world considers to be “normal” for the average person. But what about all of the people that don’t fit into this so called average? The people that prefer to sit down, read, dream and think to themselves. These people are the introverts with their own different and unique way of thinking and if it wasn’t for some of their strange but brilliant ideas the world today might not exist.

But however the childhood of an introvert is harsh trying to live and adapt to a world that has different views and ideals. The introverts aren’t actually the problem. In fact they’re the ones minding their own business. It’s the extroverts that stick their nose into a world where their views and ideals are no longer considered “normal.” Telling an introvert to be more active is a stupid idea and is like giving them a death sentence. Despite being different the introverts still want freedom and choice to do what they want to do. we’ll take the example of an introvert that wants to become a coder. He prefers to spend most of his time in his computer or phone learning more about how it works and trying to create or modify software. Besides knowing the basic primary school education which is essential for all. In middle school subjects like that don’t get taught.

For introverts this would be fine because the work better in a quiet place alone where they can focus their full interest on something attempting to learn it themselves via the internet, books, youtube or some other method. Except for the fact that now in higher grades they are given an overload of homework by the teachers and are constantly worrying about upcoming tests. Meaning they no longer have that time to learn or work on what they want to during the weekdays and they only have those two days during the weekend.

The issue with that is now the parents don’t understand and tell them “you should be more active” during the weekend. Assuming that they aren’t getting enough exercise and ask them to go outside and play. Most introverts don’t even give a damn about that and don’t go outside and play. But the constant nagging of their parents gets really frustrating and annoying stopping them from fully concentrating. So in the end they never get any time to learn what they want to at all. Introverts are the type of people that think and live towards the future so if they do something they usually have a very good reason for doing it.

The lifestyle that they live is different from the lifestyle of others. But all they want is to be accepted by others and for the extroverts to understand how they want to live their life. Most people don’t actually realize that they’re doing it but they’re forcing their own ideals on them and that the introverts weren’t born ready to accept them. These introverts are people just like us and have their own dreams, thoughts and feelings just like us. Everyone should be allowed to live they way they want to live.

Written by Greg