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The Great Irony of Quarantine


            As an introvert, the social distancing and quarantining has affected my life less than others. I have never been one for crowds or public spaces filled with strangers. I am actually quite shy, though many people find that hard to believe (I suspect it has something to do with me being on an improv team and performing to over a hundred people every week). Anyways, as an introvert, I have noticed a sort of “societal irony” over this time in quarantine.
            All my life I have noticed that, for the most part, this world is made for the extroverts. Being bold, talkative, and outgoing are traits that society tends to praise more than shyness or being reserved. There is of course nothing wrong with ether personality, but society is really built by and for the extroverts. I think it is because they speak their mind more than us introverts. Anyways, us introverts have had to spend our entire lives accommodating and adapting to being successful in a world completely against who we are. It has not been fair, but we know that is life and have accepted it.
            Then we went into quarantine and I was excited. It was an introvert’s dream. I could stay inside all day and not have to engage with that many people: Wonderful! However, I could not help but to notice something ironic and funny. The extroverts were panicking. They were outraged, complaining everywhere and all the time. They want to go out, they wanted to see and be with people. They were finally placed in a world not built for them and they cannot stand it. The introverts have been living in the same situation for decades and never made an uproar, but as soon as it happened to the extroverted overlords, they rioted.
            I have just been enjoying the great irony of introverts being fine in an extroverted world, but the extroverts freaking out in the world of introverts.

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