I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. Extroverts are often seen as more socially adept, making friends easily, thriving in social situations, and getting more opportunities because they’re more “out there.” But does that really mean their life is better?

An 80 year old introvert looks back on his life and sees countless evenings spent alone at home with Netflix or games, while an extrovert went to thousands of parties, met the most exciting people there, found new opportunities through them, laughed endlessly,....

I feel like as an introvert with social anxiety I'm living my life wrong and missing out on what life has to offer. Massive FOMO.

Bro having anxiety about having anxiety

We’re all somewhere in the middle I haven’t met a single introvert that’s a true introvert they just say that because they can’t pull

Just because you're introverted doesn't mean you're socially anxious/anti-social

I'm introverted and I go out plenty. I just prefer chilling by myself or with a small group of close friends. Need to recharge if I'm going to a big event or talking to a bunch of strangers

There are plenty of introverts out there that be getting invited to all of the parties too. They just the ones making up excuses to not go to most of them lol

im an introvert and i go to hella parties bro

Introversion and extroversion are not real you don’t need to categorize yourself like that

society has been built to accommodate extroverts and morning people, but aside from that i don’t think there’s any correlation at all

Probs

I don't think being an extrovert or introvert dictates a better life or not

no

Most people are ambiverts

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Iil uzi verts do actually

Don’t worry OP you’re just like every other average pop stan on KTT2

i’ve been an extrovert for the last 3 years and they’ve been the best years of my life and it’s not particularly close either

You’re like a reverse lobotomy patient glad you’ve been enjoying yourself

none of that sht matters

The only thing that matters at the end of the day is that you were doing what brought you joy and made you comfortable at that point in time

When you look back on your introversion that should be the only question you ask yourself. Is that what I wanted to do? Is that what made you happy? If the answer is yes then your life was equally as good as any extrovert who says yes to those same questions.

Your life will be worse if you constantly force yourself to be outgoing and live an extroverted life if all you really wanna do is be a homebody and chill. It’s fine to step outside your comfort zone every now and then and challenge yourself but doing it because you’re worried extroverts are living better is wack. Grass ain’t always greener.

what made you change

Yeah, humans are social creatures so naturally the more extroverted people are gonna have a better/easier time because the society is more geared towards them.

However, if you genuinely don’t like partying and s*** like that then there’s no reason to force it. Now if you do enjoy that type of stuff but don’t do it because you’re shy/have no confidence then you should work on that

i needed this

my attitude/outlook change came from escaping an extremely close near death experience

but the cherry on top was the second stroke that got rid of my anxiety, quite literally felt like i’ve been living w superpowers comparatively since then