Cross posted from https://lemmy.wtf/post/47568469
Why does becoming your truest self often mean ending up with almost no friends left? In this video, we explore Carl Jung’s rarest personality type — the introverted intuitive — and why solitude isn’t a failure of connection, but the final stage of psychological individuation. Learn why the people who seem “distant” or “hard to reach” may actually be the most whole.
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I think it definitely becomes harder to make friends the more you cultivate your own tastes in entertainment, or make up your own mind politically, or basically any of the stuff that connects us in a society.
Although you might need to spend a significant amount of time without friends around to get there in the first place. So it could be a chicken and egg kind of situation.
Not going into the article beyond your summary because I’m not really interested in subscribing to someone who wants to sell me a way of life but just to relate to it; I moved across the country like a decade ago and I’ve been too much of a poor to get out much since. So I’ve mostly kept myself busy and gone down my own rabbit holes without the influence of friends or the clubhouse.
And I feel a bit like I’m in the twilight zone or something these days. Especially with a large segment of the world population getting into podcasts and becoming pod people. I just find it hard to relate to it trust most people I meet beyond the superficial level now.
Although another chicken and egg thing here is, it’s hard for me to decide of isolation and self discovery changed me, or if it saved me from being changed into a weird conservative pod person.
After close analysis it seems like a big load of horse shit.
After the implosion of my prior life, and spending over 5 years totally alone, no friends, no family, etc. in my life while I processed what had happened, why it had happened, and what I needed to become to prevent it from happening again, and recovered myself physically and mentally, I emerged last August and began integrating myself back into society, and I’ve never been better. I’m still working on the remnants of issues as I strive to become my best self, but at 60 years old I am literally better in every way than I was in my prime. I am stronger, more muscular and fit, have better endurance, and am better looking than I was in my prime. I am also more confident and secure and am attracting women in their prime that I would have been thrilled to attract at 25. This is more or less the path I’ve been on, and finding that path was a matter of necessity, not choice.
Long story short, I was raised by narcissistic parents, and as a consequence let a lot of shitty people into my life, including my ex-wive who was a malignant narcissist/sociopath. She viewed me as a resource to be exploited, and and the shit hit the fan when I discovered that my life insurance had been doubled to $2M without my knowledge or consent, and was being subjected to a gaslighting campaign calculated to drive me to suicide. My shitty family, including my parents, were participating. It took me a long time to disentangle myself from the situation, during which I was subjected to campaign of stalking and harassment. I was literally the only person I could trust. It took a lot to dig myself out from that, but that which does not kill you only makes you stronger. I wish I could go back in time and change a lot of things, but all I can do is move forward.
