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· The Guardian · socialising · Christmas ·
It's an old article, but for some reason my bespoke backlog randomisation algorithm brought it back to me this morning. The algorithm knows nothing of content, so the timing is just luck.
How to party if you’re shy, socially awkward – or just plain boring, by Joel Golby, Lucy Mangan and Rhik Samadder, 17 December 2022:
Imagine, if you will, wanting to go to a party. Imagine knowing that you will have a good time – that the mere experience of being around people fills you, as a matter of course, with joy and contentment. That you go home with a spring in your step, a song in your heart, a smile on your lips – refreshed, restored, rejuvenated and ready for the next one.
That is what life is like for most of the population. And then there’s us. The introverts. The people who do not need people. The people for whom people, en masse, are the worst thing imaginable. A stranger is not “just a friend you haven’t met yet”. This is a sentence that makes no sense to us. A stranger is just a person keeping us in a room, a situation we don’t want to be in, probably with music playing and definitely away from our books and our own lavatory.
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