Scripture:
Proverbs 10:8 If you have good sense, you will listen and obey;
if all you do is talk foolishly,
you will destroy yourself.
Other Reference: QUIET: The Power Of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking- Susan Cain
I just really want to talk about my smitticles. Or if you get it, this post is a chronicle of all the things I have fallen in love with. Not really that but how I get to fall in love so much!
Confession: I'm an introvert. I am quiet. I'm socially... awkward you could say
Now back to my smitticles. I love ideas. I am a thinker. When I get smitten by an idea I will be so wrapped up in it that, well that becomes the most interesting thing to me. So when I'm in my obsessive mode everything else pales in comparison. And small talk? Sheeshh!! Kill me now!
All my life I've been told to speak up, to speak more and like Moses when God asked him to lead the people of Egypt, have never felt able to rise to the occasion because well, I've always been convinced that noone would stop to listen to me because let's be honest its hard to ignore the loudest voice.
It wasn't until I heard this talk that I realised that people will count you out because you are not entertaining enough or loud enough that I realised that my lack of delivery of my ideas does not make them any less good. Actually I saw somewhere that social scientists have found that there is actually prejudice to certain personality types but that's shpill for another day.
The point of this post is people looking outside in will never understand but I feel more alive when an idea has totally run me over, wrapped me around and totally immersed me in its truth and its possibilities.
Winifred Gallagher writes: "The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=Mc2 nor Paradise Lost was dashed off by a party animal."
I am what I am and that's ok
...so help me God...
