Staywhatyouare
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Lately I've been in a really weird place, and I'm starting to realize that a lot of it has to do with the people I've been surrounding myself with. I'm living in a house for the summer with 6 of my closest friends, all great guys. But I'm finding more and more that despite how close I am with them, I'm very different from them and it can get a bit frustrating. My two best friends are ENFP's, I can talk a with them about pretty much any personal issue and I know they'll give me good advice. The rest of the people are all various other types of extroverts, with the exception of one other possible Sensing Introvert.
The way I look at things and the world is drastically different from them, and the more time I spend around them the more I feel that sense of alienation, of just being a completely different person. They are all smart people, or else I wouldn't be living with them, but I don't really think they are intellectuals in the sense that they view knowledge and rational thought as being absolutely essential. I can talk about my theories with my close friends and they'll be intrigued, but none of them are interested in discussing intellectual topics just for fun.
The only two people who I can really discuss things like this with are my Dad ( INTP) and one of my other good friends (ENTP), but the fact that he's extroverted still causes him to have a pretty drastically different way of viewing things than I do despite the fact that he and I think so similarly and have ideals that are pretty much the same.
I hate to sound pretentious, because I really am not, but I just feel like I'm much more mature and probably smarter than the majority of people I meet and it really gets tiring after a while. And to add to things, the more I try and embrace my introvertedness( going to the library, reading, engaging in any activity that I think will help me to connect with other introverts, since I feel like part of why I'm so unhappy is that I've been trying to live as an extrovert for the past 3 years...) they get all worried and offended as if somethings wrong, or I don't want to hang out with them.
I could keep ranting for a while but I think you guys get the point. Can any of you guys relate/ do you have any advice?
The way I look at things and the world is drastically different from them, and the more time I spend around them the more I feel that sense of alienation, of just being a completely different person. They are all smart people, or else I wouldn't be living with them, but I don't really think they are intellectuals in the sense that they view knowledge and rational thought as being absolutely essential. I can talk about my theories with my close friends and they'll be intrigued, but none of them are interested in discussing intellectual topics just for fun.
The only two people who I can really discuss things like this with are my Dad ( INTP) and one of my other good friends (ENTP), but the fact that he's extroverted still causes him to have a pretty drastically different way of viewing things than I do despite the fact that he and I think so similarly and have ideals that are pretty much the same.
I hate to sound pretentious, because I really am not, but I just feel like I'm much more mature and probably smarter than the majority of people I meet and it really gets tiring after a while. And to add to things, the more I try and embrace my introvertedness( going to the library, reading, engaging in any activity that I think will help me to connect with other introverts, since I feel like part of why I'm so unhappy is that I've been trying to live as an extrovert for the past 3 years...) they get all worried and offended as if somethings wrong, or I don't want to hang out with them.
I could keep ranting for a while but I think you guys get the point. Can any of you guys relate/ do you have any advice?