Day 4

This exercise of writing was suggested by my therapist. In our discussions we often come back to the idea of introversion/extroversion, and the ways in which these personality tendencies often relate to not just our behaviors and relationships but also how we process our emotions, the things we struggle with, the parts of life we crave and the parts we neglect. I don't believe it's all so simple as that but I think there is at least something to it. Allegedly, I am a capital-E Extrovert who deals with most of MY life on the outside - endlessly fascinated by others' lives and stories, constant comparisons, struggling to make a decision without a committee meeting, always seeking new ways to keep busy, ever avoiding the stillness and the aloneness that introverts apparently crave.  So I have been tasked with getting to know myself better in relation to my Self. My homework is to spend 10 minutes "with myself" each day, writing, so that I can work to make what is internal and hidden a bit more known to the outside. To practice being alone with my own thoughts, and to see what those thoughts contain and where they take me when I take the time to cultivate my own inner voice. Of course the extrovert in me opted to blog rather than privately journal so there's that.... Let's see where I end up in 100 days.