'‘I Want to be Alone!’ - Pauline Chandler
Are writers by nature anti-social? Is this why we write? This month, I was supposed to be blogging Part Two of my Spring Clean-Up post, with the focus of how edited my collection of fiction. We.ell, as so often happens with any type of cleaning in my house, I’ve started, so I’ll not finish. Tra la! My butterfly mind hops on to a different track. What interrupted my Clean-Up blog? An interesting piece from the Huffington Post, about Introverts. Now, I’m not a fan of labels for people, in any form. We can only pin people down for a very short time. In the next moment we’re different. Influenced by something in our environment, we change our minds, we learn and grow, we evolve, as written in stone as blobs in a lava lamp. Yet, this piece on Introverts really spoke to me, because I recognised myself and for the first time acknowledged my weirdness as perfectly normal. There, I've said it! I've come out! I'm an Introvert! Finally....