Story telling

[Fallenman]

Do you enjoy it? I never have the inclination to. I'm wondering if this quality I have is an INTP one or one unique to me. The past 3 and a half years have been eventful for me. I've done a lot of things, and i've thoroughly experienced as many things as I could possibly get my hands on, within reason, i've even gone so far as to spend a night in jail. But for all the experiences i've had, i've realized that they are primarily experiences for my own benefit. I experience something, learn something new, and store it away for future reference, but almost never for future retelling. People from all walks of life ask me how I've been and what i've done, and admittedly i do some pretty noteworthy things... but I never feel the inclination to tell anyone. The only time I do is by way of anecdote, or analogy, or basically in order to relate to the person i'm talking to.

In theory it could just be that all these 'noteworthy' things are things i care little to nothing about, and so i don't even acknowledge their existence in my life, until specifically prompted. Or perhaps its something else... I don't know.

 

[Jesse]

This is my biggest failing. When people get together they tell each other stories and "small talk". usually I find that hard because I don't think anyone would be interested in my stories or I just can't tell them right.

 

[EyeSeeCold]

I have a lot of experiences that I feel are personal and not meant for anyone else. The most significant ones are too peculiar to be told to just anyone. So this is why I think somewhere down the line in my old age I am meant to pass my knowledge on to one designated person filled with an insatiable curiosity.

 

[Glordag]

Do you enjoy it? I never have the inclination to. I'm wondering if this quality I have is an INTP one or one unique to me. The past 3 and a half years have been eventful for me. I've done a lot of things, and i've thoroughly experienced as many things as I could possibly get my hands on, within reason, i've even gone so far as to spend a night in jail. But for all the experiences i've had, i've realized that they are primarily experiences for my own benefit. I experience something, learn something new, and store it away for future reference, but almost never for future retelling. People from all walks of life ask me how I've been and what i've done, and admittedly i do some pretty noteworthy things... but I never feel the inclination to tell anyone. The only time I do is by way of anecdote, or analogy, or basically in order to relate to the person i'm talking to.

In theory it could just be that all these 'noteworthy' things are things i care little to nothing about, and so i don't even acknowledge their existence in my life, until specifically prompted. Or perhaps its something else... I don't know.

Oh yeah, big time. Nobody seems to understand, either. The worst part is that people will expect me or tell me to tell a story, and then I lock up and it builds this awkward moment of anticipation and...yeah...it can be awful .

 

[_whispers_]

I do it! And I`m good at it too

I use it as a way to connect to people. It helps most of the time. I have a set of insignificant stories that people would find amusing, but don`t mean anything to me. I tell a story, they laugh - we`re closer. Brownies for me

 

[Inappropriate Behavior]

Sometimes, not often, I somehow get in the right frame of mind for relating a story of some experience I've had. When I do, I'm pretty damn entertaining. Problem is no one who has witnessed that understands why I'm most often not in that right frame of mind.

It's better if I have someone there who had the experience with me. To either take over or to play off of.

 

[Lobstrich]

Story telling? As in telling everyday stories or books, and the like?

Everyday stories bore me.
But getting something read to me doesn't really bother me, mostly because I'm too lazy to read it myself.

I only want to read stuff myself if I find it very intresting.

 

[Fallenman]

I mean telling people about your life. I understand some things are personal and aren't said for that reason, but I'm talking about telling a person what you did Friday night. My complication comes when I've done something rather noteworthy, and I'll only say the bare minimum. I've had cases where I'll say oh I went to this function and it was fun, and then someone else who was at that function will talk about it and make it sound like some epic adventure. I don't know, its hard for me to be prompted to say anything, although I can be a great story teller when in the right mindset like IB

 

[Lobstrich]

I mean telling people about your life. I understand some things are personal and aren't said for that reason, but I'm talking about telling a person what you did Friday night. My complication comes when I've done something rather noteworthy, and I'll only say the bare minimum. I've had cases where I'll say oh I went to this function and it was fun, and then someone else who was at that function will talk about it and make it sound like some epic adventure. I don't know, its hard for me to be prompted to say anything, although I can be a great story teller when in the right mindset like IB

I know what you mean. I'm not much for telling about my everyday life. My general answer is "fine" or "bad" Unless something happened that I actually find interesting enough for me to be telling 'everyone' about.

 

[dark]

Well I can story tell, if you consider a lecture of explinations and theory behind why I did everything I did and why others did what they did etc. I think I either bore or confuse people. about 9/10 people find my tellings very interesting, atleast from what they tell me and 1/10 is extremely bored since they dislike theory.

But it probably shouldn't be called story telling since I can either make a 2 minute moment into a 2 week explination or a 2 week explination into 2 minutes, depends entirely on what happened and completely not related to how I feel about it or like it. May be the chameleon affect coming through when I tell stories. Although if I have thought the story through and maybe written it down I can be very convincing very un-theoritical and make it seem like I have emotion, and people can actually feel what I want them to feel, really strange, but I think that is what story telling is about, making people feel the emotions you want them to feel, and as I stated, if I prepare, I can do it, but on a whim, nope, no hope in the world. Maybe I am just good with manipulating words and using my voice to bring people into the prepared story.