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What becomes of the renegades
and their late-night ways?
What has solitude earned them
that others might envy?
A friendship with the stars?
A kinship with the moon?
Who are those aloof few
who discern the abstract?
They are the introverts.
The thinkers.
They tinker and toy as they toil,
burning their midnight oil for an idea.
They are the shy minority,
the mysterious, lost in solemn thought,
solving all the world's problems
as if it were no trouble at all.
How do they survive?
How do they endure
in an extroverted world,
which cares more for the unreserved?
They feed on knowledge
and thrive on philosophy,
perspicuity,
pertinacity.
They need no approval
and ask for no attention.
They are the untiring dreamers,
the silent creators of invention.
So be kind to the expert thinkers,
those taciturn sages,
for without the introverts' work,
how would humanity have made it?
and their late-night ways?
What has solitude earned them
that others might envy?
A friendship with the stars?
A kinship with the moon?
Who are those aloof few
who discern the abstract?
They are the introverts.
The thinkers.
They tinker and toy as they toil,
burning their midnight oil for an idea.
They are the shy minority,
the mysterious, lost in solemn thought,
solving all the world's problems
as if it were no trouble at all.
How do they survive?
How do they endure
in an extroverted world,
which cares more for the unreserved?
They feed on knowledge
and thrive on philosophy,
perspicuity,
pertinacity.
They need no approval
and ask for no attention.
They are the untiring dreamers,
the silent creators of invention.
So be kind to the expert thinkers,
those taciturn sages,
for without the introverts' work,
how would humanity have made it?
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my howls are silent
I, too, see the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. We are decomposing too early, our souls dying before our bodies can catch up. We are silently ravenous, a quiet craze in our hearts, not quite the same as your generation, Ginsberg. We do not shriek "Holy! Holy! Holy!" as we burn. We drown soundlessly.
The overeducated, proud products of postmodernism dissolve in a lukewarm soup of ennui, bored balloons filled with hubris rather than helium. Fragile dolls with flaking bones and hair and skin like flowers wilting, weighed down by indomitable wills and insecurities... these plastic girls starve to death and diabetes in the car b
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Introvert.
No.
I am not angry.
I am not sad.
Nothing happened at school.
Or at home.
It's not attitude.
Nor is it a phase.
I just can't deal with talking to you right now, alright?
Or anybody for that matter.
Yes.
It is going to annoy me.
I will get mad.
At friends.
At family.
And it will be attitude.
If you keep asking me whats wrong.
When I quickly answer I'm fine.
Up in a tree.
Hidden in my closet.
Behind the couch.
Lying on my bed.
Under a bush.
With no one around to ask questions.
Silence Alone.
I can think.
I can day dream.
I can just lay there.
Be amazed by the smallest things.
Or nothing at all.
It's not so strange I
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This is my fourteenth entry for NaPoWriMo.
I was a little late today. I had to write this one extemporaneously as my cache of ideas has grown low. (was that bombastic enough? LOL)
I watched a TED talk about introverts and how many people discourage introverted behavior. Children in schools are taught to not work alone, to be more outgoing, and extroverted.
But the problem is this: Most of the greatest minds the world has ever seen were introverts. Einstein, Warren Buffett, Frederic Chopin, Charles Darwin, Mahatma Gandhi, Sir Isaac Newton, J.K. Rowling (just to name a few) were/are all introverts.
It's ok to be the quiet one. It's fine to need some "alone time." It's normal and acceptable. So the next time someone asks you, "Why are you so quiet?" Say with pride, "Because, I'm an introvert."
I was a little late today. I had to write this one extemporaneously as my cache of ideas has grown low. (was that bombastic enough? LOL)
I watched a TED talk about introverts and how many people discourage introverted behavior. Children in schools are taught to not work alone, to be more outgoing, and extroverted.
But the problem is this: Most of the greatest minds the world has ever seen were introverts. Einstein, Warren Buffett, Frederic Chopin, Charles Darwin, Mahatma Gandhi, Sir Isaac Newton, J.K. Rowling (just to name a few) were/are all introverts.
It's ok to be the quiet one. It's fine to need some "alone time." It's normal and acceptable. So the next time someone asks you, "Why are you so quiet?" Say with pride, "Because, I'm an introvert."
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