In Praise of Extreme Introverts Who Are Also Empaths
July 31st, 2008 by Rose Rosetree
Aura readings show it. Even surface behavior might. Some of you Blog-Buddies are introverts. In fact, some of you are extreme introverts.
Extreme introverts are not necessarily empaths. But for you to also be an empath, that is a super-hero powerful set of attributes to choose for a lifetime.
In your honor, I have written today’s post, a poem.
You are the one who leaves the garden singing.
Not through your voice, either.
The garden does the singing, just because you have been there.
After all, you have walked with a stride that appreciates without making demands. No other human presence on earth can best your deep ways of being and knowing.
A garden has the wisdom to understand this.
It can be hard for someone like you to live among the loud, the pushy, the demanding. But keep on doing it anyway, not changing to become pushy or loud or otherwise acceptable to the judgmental noisy multitudes.
Everywhere you go, you waken up the silence.
To a flower arrangment, you bring the space that shows off each petal. To a sky, you bring the blue. And when you choose to speak, such words! A magnet of truth clings to every sentence.
I celebrate the taste that you uniquely add to conversation:
Dazzling! Sweet yet puckery! In a world of diet Coke, you bring mango-flavored tea.
How sweet is this? I’ve heard from two of you extreme introverts by email, thanking me for this post.
Not big, loud, flashy, bloggy public comments. Well, duh!
To you, and those of you who have responded even more quietly with a thank you, my quiet “You’re welcome.”
I thank you, too, Rose for this beautiful poem. I don’t think I’m an extreme introvert, but it still resonated for me.
DANA, thank you.
Another thank you came in quietly by email today, which means that the ratio of private emails to rose[at]rose-rosetree.com are outnumbering those big loud THANK YOUs as blog comments by 3:1.
Your one is most cherished, Dana.
Today was another rough day in a rough week. (Could it be Mercury retrograde?) Then I read this post. Thank you for affirming my value, quiet and in the background, often overlooked, but needing affirmation just like everyone else.
LISA W., thanks so much for your public praise. May future weeks be MUCH better, downright funderful.
And, for those who keep track of such thing, I also received a lengthy personal email of thanks as well, so those silent present-and-former-or-somewhat extreme introverts are still ahead on the quiet communication side.