I have been aware of this site for a while and after reading some discussions on here I just thought I would share some of my sentiments and experience with fellow INFPs. I think that INFP personality does have some peculiarities that are seen as not good by many people, including some INFPs themselves.
I can honestly say that I live content in my airy and dreamy introversion, comfortable with all the creativity that melancholy and solitude have both provided to me. I have lived in quite a few different places through the years and even though I adapt myself to new places and situations very easily it was hard to truly connect with a lot of people. Partly because I can get anxious but also because I just feel that I can't relate to 90% of the people around me. I don't want to be misunderstood; I am sincerely open-minded, tolerant, open to know and help others...but it is much easier and gratifying for me to avoid social conventions, relish in the warmth of my loneliness and drift away from the physical world, build my own dimensions and imagined worlds, wander in better and more beautiful places far away from reality. I have constantly found (or lost) myself in liminal states of consciousness and that has inspired me in wonderful ways, flourished my creativeness and my appreciation for art and culture!
Consequently, I came to realise that I couldn't be more glad to be an INFP, even if it comes with moments of deeply felt loneliness, depression and difficult phases, even if it is hard to take new responsibilities...I believe this is a life worth living!
To all my dear INFPs; never stop dreaming!
I can honestly say that I live content in my airy and dreamy introversion, comfortable with all the creativity that melancholy and solitude have both provided to me. I have lived in quite a few different places through the years and even though I adapt myself to new places and situations very easily it was hard to truly connect with a lot of people. Partly because I can get anxious but also because I just feel that I can't relate to 90% of the people around me. I don't want to be misunderstood; I am sincerely open-minded, tolerant, open to know and help others...but it is much easier and gratifying for me to avoid social conventions, relish in the warmth of my loneliness and drift away from the physical world, build my own dimensions and imagined worlds, wander in better and more beautiful places far away from reality. I have constantly found (or lost) myself in liminal states of consciousness and that has inspired me in wonderful ways, flourished my creativeness and my appreciation for art and culture!
Consequently, I came to realise that I couldn't be more glad to be an INFP, even if it comes with moments of deeply felt loneliness, depression and difficult phases, even if it is hard to take new responsibilities...I believe this is a life worth living!
To all my dear INFPs; never stop dreaming!