Introspective
Dorothea examines how an introvert couple can “fall into a trap of separate introverted worlds”:http://www.yarinareth.net/caveatlector/archive/week_2003_03_23.html#e001440. It makes me glad that my partner is an extrovert who has the ability to drive me out of my shell once in a while. It forces me to participate more in the relationship than I otherwise would. If she didn’t, and she was like me, without being careful, I could easily see us leading separate lives completely.
One thing I’ve thought about in the past, and perhaps relates here is whether you’d preferred to be deaf or blind. This is a bit like my long term thinking about whether it would better to die in a fire, or freezing to death. I have an odd little mind, not that you’d know to look at me, because I’m not going to go and ask anyone they’re opinion on this. I’m an introvert, don’t you know.
Despite the loss of listening to my favourite music and bands, I’d much prefer to be deaf. No annoying noises to interrupt my thoughts, I could participate in the Internet easily, (my understanding is that text readers are a long way off being perfect), I could read books, watch TV with subtitles (which I have learnt to appreciate with a crying baby in the house). Plus, my wife already knows sign language. Perhaps an extrovert would prefer to be blind, so they could talk to people?
Speaking of this, my wife has been on the phone for the past half hour to someone or other. I never spend this amount of time on the phone during the whole day. I do have a mobile, and “like Jonathon never use it”:http://weblog.delacour.net/archives/000872.html. I got it when we were expecting our first child and needed to be contacted wherever I was when it was due. Unlike Jonathon I don’t spend an inordinate amount of money per month. In the UK you can have pay as you go. I stuck £10 on it some time last year, and still have over £8 left.
March 26th, 2003 at 16:45
In which case - on the last point - you appear to be lucky in not having a PAYG tariff that expires over time, or has a “Buy at least £5 coupons a month or we cut you off” deal
March 27th, 2003 at 16:26
Must be a new thing, then. I got these phones three years ago. I assume the phone companies got wise to the fact they don’t make much money off the likes of me.