A letter to the extroverts

Dear Extroverts,

Perhaps we only let you think you're in the lead.

Perhaps we know what you're doing, and we're doing the same -- just by a different route.

Perhaps we're all fighting for the same things, and it doesn't matter whether we achieve it through standing tall in the spotlight or sitting quietly in the shadows.

Perhaps those shadows contain our chance to shine.

Perhaps we don't require an audience, because we're softer at heart.

Perhaps it's not that we don't like to be around people, but that our connection to them is so intense that it overwhelms us.

Perhaps we love ourselves the way we are, and we wouldn't wish to change even if you offered to teach us how.

Perhaps there is no right way, no better personality type, no one group who stands above the other.

Perhaps there is nothing wrong with being the opposite of you.

And perhaps we're ready to stand on that, to show you all the ways we're just as strong as you, all the ways we're just as successful and powerful in this world.


Perhaps it's time to show you that we too can rule the world -- we'd only choose to do so from a different scene than you.

I hereby dub 2015 the Year of the Introvert, a time when we'll strive to show you, the extroverts, how good different can be.

A time when perhaps you'll see how comforting peace and quiet can be.

A time when maybe, just maybe, we'll let ourselves believe that we too can rule the world.


Signed,

The Introverts 

{RD}