Something we're not

Extroverts don’t understand introverts and vice versa. It’s true. They’re two totally different personalities.
 
Jenny and I are introverts and we always feel that extroverts are trying to make us something we’re not. They want us to talk more, to socialise more, to get out more, to make new friends.
 
They don’t understand that we’re quite happy being on our own and that we find too much socialising exhausting and unfulfilling. We find this constant emphasis on getting out and about very tedious.
 
I expect my life would be a lot smoother if I was a natural chatterbox and socialiser and could make new friends easily, but that’s just not the way I’m made.
 
I think there are many more introverts than people realise, because we have ways of concealing our introversion and pretending to be more gregarious than we really are (not that people are fooled for very long).
 
It’s good to have a mixture of extroverts and introverts. If we were all extroverts it would be a distracting hubbub of relentless chatterers. If we were all introverts everyone would be on the sofa reading a book and nothing would get done.