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I didn't notice you were there!
I got lost in my own world again.
No set of walls will feel like a prison.
I don't need to leave the house, or my chair, to have fun.
Time spent with family and friends means a lot to me.
But I don't do it just because.
Reading and writing and my love for these don't make me boring.
Living in my own mind comes naturally to me, like breathing.
Of course I don't know what to talk about.
Unless it's deep, meaningful and interesting, I won't say much.
Very good at listening?
I love learning new things and being there for you.
Escape plan: exits, quiet and an excuse.
Over-stimulation is the pits!
Real friends are hard to come by.
If I consider you a friend, it's a big deal!
Try coming out of my shell?
This is who I am.
I got lost in my own world again.
No set of walls will feel like a prison.
I don't need to leave the house, or my chair, to have fun.
Time spent with family and friends means a lot to me.
But I don't do it just because.
Reading and writing and my love for these don't make me boring.
Living in my own mind comes naturally to me, like breathing.
Of course I don't know what to talk about.
Unless it's deep, meaningful and interesting, I won't say much.
Very good at listening?
I love learning new things and being there for you.
Escape plan: exits, quiet and an excuse.
Over-stimulation is the pits!
Real friends are hard to come by.
If I consider you a friend, it's a big deal!
Try coming out of my shell?
This is who I am.
Literature
Insomnia
There's a party in my head
As I close my eyes to sleep.
Little creatures and monsters,
Oh, back and forth they creep.
On silent tip-toes they walk,
Playing melodies in my mind.
Finding caverns I have closed,
Putting my life on rewind.
My mind is somewhere else,
But in vain I toss and turn.
Little goblins man the lights,
And the ghosts try to learn.
It's all a big, loud, unruly mess,
This untamed party in my head.
I try and shut them down,
But back and forth they tread.
I'm never going to get any sleep
As long as they're awake.
They take my tired thoughts
Down every path they can take.
Oh, what would I give to have
One silent and sle
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Nothing
I heard someone sarcastically sputter,
"You are what you eat."
But hearing that sole sentence
allowed me to finally understand
why I am
what I am:
Nothing.
Literature
never become a writer
i.never become a writer.
you will become a perfectionist,
picking life apart
with a magpie's eye,
hunting for the beautiful bits
until you can make yourself
a sparkling throne
in the center of a junkyard.
ii.you will write when you're sad.
you will write when you're happy.
whenever you feel something,
you will vomit the emotion out
into some sort of literature.
when you're finished,
you'll be empty
and surrounded by
pages and pages of
everything you once were.
iii.you will try to make
pain sound delicious,
painting over the ragged wounds
with pink paint
and candy-coat lies.
you will learn
how to decorate graveyards.
everyone will play
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I've been watching a lot of YouTube videos about introversion in the past week or so and it's made me feel so relieved! I don't feel like 'the odd one out' anymore, I understand why I do the things I do and why extroverts are always pushing me to talk and socialise more. It's hard work doing both and it's good to know it's okay to live in my own head and not have the drive to visit people all the time! Phew... lol 
If you can relate to this or you want to share your thoughts (critique or not), don't be afraid to post! 
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Edit: 24/02 -- I've fixed up a couple of lines: the first N and the V sentence, and removed the italics. The V sentence had really been bugging me, so I've reworked it and made it sound better
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Amen. I fully embrace my Introversion, though for years I was criticized for "not being like the crowd." My grandfather (years before passing away) said to me once as a teen, "Daniel you are an Introvert, embrace it. it's a personality, it's who you are, it's nothing to be ashamed of, when you're older you'll understand why I said this." And years later, I understood this isn't a disease, or disorder. It's a personality type. My dad is an Introvert, he told me to fully embrace it, I didn't as a teen, but I have for the last number of years. Extroversion is a personality type, just as Ambiversion is too (but also more rare). I am an Introvert 90% of the time, and Extrovert 10% of the time. The only way I'm extroverted is if you get me talking about something I really like, and I like to sometimes take risks. Other then those 2 things, I'm an Introvert 90% of the time and would rather study people, then talk all day to people about things I may or may not know anything about to try to impress other human beings with. Silence seriously is golden. I can learn more about a person in 2 hours of listening and studying them, then I can in 20 minutes of conversation. I like your poetry. very raw, honest, and unapologetic. Extroverts tend to get on my nerves, because they want us to talk to just talk. That's not the point of conversation. Conversation is back and forth. And it's more listening then anything else.