becoming exhausted quickly
i recently realized that i’m actually a pretty introverted person, despite being extremely active on social media and, generally speaking, being a very outgoing and magnetic person. at one point i had a lot of friends, and i’ve never really had any issues communicating with people. it’s just that i get tired of it very quickly, and oftentimes i’m simply not interested in talking to people. i genuinely can’t listen to someone for more than five minutes, while at the same time i often prefer being the one talking. like, it’s easier for me when i’m talking and someone is listening to me, and i usually don’t even talk about the most basic, overused topics like discussing someone’s life or whatever. it’s usually historical, philosophical, psychological, or otherwise similar kinds of discussions.
that’s why i have very few people around me in general — simply because i’m not interested in interacting with most people. i can easily block someone if i realize they’re texting me too much or constantly spamming me. it can annoy me A LOT. but for a certain circle of people — my friends, my partner, or whoever else i genuinely care about — i can literally listen to them for hours and spend the entire day with them without getting tired at all. i’m willing to completely give myself to a person. but with everyone else, it just doesn’t work that way.
and overall, i don’t even want to make new connections. i don’t feel like meeting new people because, generally, it just doesn’t interest me. i’m perfectly comfortable being alone, even in environments that i regularly go to. it could be math classes, some other classes, work, whatever. i’m completely comfortable being there by myself.
but what do you do when you genuinely get tired of interacting with people really quickly? i can’t spend a lot of time in a group because afterwards i need like a day or two to recover. i can’t even spend that long just hanging out with people i have things to talk about with, if they’re not part of that small circle of people i actually care to be around. i just can’t spend a lot of time with them.
has anyone else ever felt like this? do you also get irritated really quickly by being around a lot of people, or by someone talking way too much, or just by social interaction in general? share your experiences.