'Apologies for jumping into the thread so late into the discussion - I've read a great many of the responses, and am truly thankful for them. I thought perhaps I'd share my experiences with this...|||I remember when I was younger, around 13+, I used to hang out with my seniors in school who were three years older and hardly with my classmates, who were very much inclined to volley paper planes...|||Hopefully it doesn't turn out too blur. =]|||As far as a career is concerned, my goal is to retire a college professor in English Literature and a certified counsellor. =D Meanwhile however, I'll be teaching at the ground level (scholarship...|||All my 'friends' sleep beside my pillow - a dinosaur, a turtle and a lion. And before I sleep every night, I 'put them to bed' by reclining the dinosaur's head on the turtle's back. While I'd...|||It sounds almost incredulous, but so strangely real - about you crying over the death of your plant. I feel sad for soft toys I see thrown in the rubbish dumps sometimes, and they're not even mine; I...|||You're useless just because I don't do something right. OR You're clever when I actually do something right. OR Why are you so scared? when I'm genuinely afraid.  Those are likely the...|||I wish it were that easy, really. My extraverted friends usually take my sudden disconnect as an idiosyncrasy of mine, once they realize that I'm in fact an introvert. It's a matter of fact for them...|||Hello peeps!  Life for me has taken a more solipsistic turn of late, and while I continue to remain socially active in the college scene, I find myself wanting more and more time to myself - to do...|||Dad: ISTP Mom: ISFJ Bro 1: ISTJ Bro 2: INFP  I'm surrounded mostly by ENFPs, INFPs and INTJs. My relationships with those types typically transcend small-talk. I have an INFJ friend but I feel...|||I tend to transubstantiate my grief into anger, then anger into vengeance, which then becomes an elemental force of change or action. Perhaps it's almost like paying it forward, but in a different...|||Awww, I love clubbing, but only because it allows me to go crazy in a place whose function is to house crazy people for a night's worth of partying. =P  Dancing is a cathartic release for me, and...|||I'm reading a double major in English Literature and Philosophy in college right now, and while the latter can be a tad complex at times, I'd say they complement each other seamlessly because of how...|||You cannot imagine how much of a comfort it can be to know that somewhere out there, there's an INFJ guy who's troubled by the same concerns; so thanks for sharing. =]  When I was a lot younger, I...|||Haha! I really hope it never comes to that, but I understand that it's a dog-eat-dog world out (or in, rather) there, and this idealist of a brain needs to see that before the beasts tear and rend at...|||I've only ever been in one relationship so far, and even though it lasted all of three months (the limerence was drawn out over a year prior), I've virtually spent almost two years trying to rebuild...|||So, I'm currently taking a module in critical reading in college which allocates 15% to class participation, and yesterday was our first three-hour seminar of the semester. It wasn't a memorable...|||Haha, pardon this really random analogy, but I sometimes thing I'm like some sort of tropical fruit frozen in a solid cube of ice. I think people can see that I'm a fuzzy, fun-to-be-with person...|||Yeap, sunsets have a special significance to me too, but for all the wrong reasons. I used to love gazing into the lilac-vermilion twilight at the beach, but right now it's merely a reminder of the...|||You sound like a Romantic hero. My source of inspiration is/was video games and movies. =D Sometimes the music, the event and your state of mind converge into a charged mass of elemental energy that...|||Yeap, definitely misconstrued. =]  I enjoy logic in its purest form, it's just that when the rigor is conjugated with language and expression (i.e. Philosophy), the aesthetics of expression tend to...|||Hello peeps!  I'm a first year undergraduate majoring in English Literature and (initially) planning to read a second major in Philosophy. However, having dabbled in some modules of Philosophy for...|||Hmm, this emotional-somatic phenomenon has been bothering me for quite some time already, so considering that I've recently grown aware of it, perhaps it'll be good to procure some hypotheses...|||I've realised that I tend to emanate warmth in short bursts around people I'm merely or recently acquainted with, such that I either come across as ambivalent or rehearsed (even if the feelings...|||Hello peeps. I'm not sure if it's in the stickies anywhere above, but I thought I'd just throw this question out:  I've seen signatures on this forum with a descending sequence of functions that...|||... he'll rub your back (natural instinct for me). =]  And if he really likes you, he'll linger in your warmth for something like an eternity.|||I know I wouldn't... First off, you know how it is when you start off with certain impressions of people - they tend to stick. People also tend to draw up in their minds certain expectations of how...|||Yeah, it gets really soul-draining when your conversations are always themed or centred on philosophy and other profound matters. I've realised that this happens very often when we becomes really...|||I know deep inside, I secretly wish I were an E/INTP. ENTPs are really smooth with their interpersonal relations while keeping inside them a certain hidden humanity that leaves people feeling curious...|||Yeah, I do quite a bit. It's like there's this internal moral regulator (the superego) of some sort always in surveillance mode, such that if I step out of line, it reprimands me and gets me back in...|||I know for a fact that we do tend to compensate for our 'fits of passion' during discourse by (forcefully or otherwise) integrating empirical evidence of some sort to give ourselves that credit...|||It's amusing that you pointed it out, because I was afraid my own reply earlier on sounded a tad too self-absorbed. I think it's because of how strongly we feel about certain issues, and it might...|||In a way, I'd think you've been quite fortunate to discover this for yourself as a little kid. I mean, for the greater part of my life thus far - right up till the end of high school - I was...|||While I wish that I could do just that without resistance, I understand that at least for myself, assuming different guises is something that runs against the grain of my self-identity (sadly)....|||As an INFJ, it is hard to imagine that my Fi is inferior to say, Se. But I suppose it varies from person to person.  I've browsed through a little of Socionics before and saw a mass of symbols. As...|||OH YES. Darn, that's right!  For some reason I'm always listing Fe as my dominant when it's in fact Ni. So, if we take into consideration the four main functions, it'll run as such:  Ni > Fe > Ti >...|||Hello peeps.   I'm a little stumped regarding the relative positioning of the MBTI functions from dominant through to inferior. Well, maybe not stumped, but perhaps unsure and seeking...|||The world is... in your imagination!  For what better life to lead, than one that is a paradise inside.|||I understand that I have the tendency to compartmentalise my circle of friends, such that when I move on physically (whether I attend a new school, a new class etc.), I also move on socially,...|||I like how you used the imagery of a flipped switch, and I'd say it very rightly describes our temperament when we feel that our values are being threatened. Essentially, it's an all or nothing...|||That's a beautiful poem that embodies the suffering that reverberates so unabatedly even after its nexus has passed away. Yeap, and I can relate to the intermingling of sorrow in both blood and...|||Dad is an ISTP/INTP. Mum is an ISFJ. Younger brother is an ISTJ. Youngest brother is an ENFP.  My mum is extremely self-righteous, and seems to enjoy using the psychological process of...|||This resonates with me, and possibly with the very same intensity in which the above was written (and felt). Love that is not bound by duty or disposition (as in filial piety et al.) but accorded to...|||Hello peeps!  I've returned to revel in your midst, although I scarce believe anyone remembers me, since it's been quite a while since I posted something.  To cut to the chase, let's just say I'm...|||I read this, and my eyes instantly flicked to that dog on your avatar...  OMG I'M SORRY. :laughing:  Edit: Oh gosh, the picture of that deranged dog with pink eyes is just... disturbing! O_O|||That's very true. I think most people are afraid of actually leaving everything behind, mostly unfinished business. That is the primary source of regret and hence the reluctance to let go even in the...|||http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/9802/image001ph8.jpg  http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4152/image007dw3.jpg  ***  http://img239.imageshack.us/img239/8766/image012ww2.jpg I just have to...|||I know how that feeling goes... You feel so helpless as you feel the same grief and fear your friend harbours in his/her heart, but it seems like there is so little you can do to make it easier for...|||An extract from http://www.personalitypage.com/INFJ.html:    Well, I've been going through a bit of a rough patch lately, or you could say that I've been stuck in a rut for about a month now,...|||I wish I could proclaim with conviction that I'm absolutely content with my present state of mind, or status quo with respect to being an INFJ, but the truth is, I realise that there's always...'