'I got really interested in personality types about 4 years ago during a period of personal tumult, when typology became an illuminating tool for me to revisit myself. Ix92ve been member of this forum...|||I'm obviously in a disco mood today. My mind's a mystery...   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ayyy-03ITDg|||https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCR0ep31-6U :laughing:|||It would be nice if I could discern exactly where the line is between being a kind, considerate person and pathetic sap who shows no self respect.  Because I have a feeling I've been straying over...|||Thank you    Exquis for putting a smile on my face today :hugs:  Maybe 18 months ago, there were a few threads about an INFP slumber party, and when I'm feeling low I sometimes revisit the idea...|||Yesterday I was feeling anxious and stressed and ventured out for a dusky walk.  Nature is a reliable soother for me.  The quiet, the green, the wind in the towering trees, the twittering birds and...|||I am reading an enjoyable book on emotions and moods, and the beginning quotes a lovely snatch of verse that caught my fancy and filled me with a sense of pleasurable consonance:  Gods of living...|||The person who lives upstairs has been blasting music nonstop all day.  She does this regularly.  I bought some of those fancy-schmancy bose noise-cancelling headphones in part to deal with this...|||I feel a sense of grief for all the things I once knew and have now forgotten, and for all the things I can now call to mind which are destined to fade and disappear from my memory.  It is a sub par...|||exhausted, angry, overwhelmed|||Right now, having voluntarily chosen to return to school seems like an act of true idiocy. I have practically every possible major life change in progress at the moment and my life has a complete...|||i don't know exactly how to describe my feelings.  I know that I'm on the edge of something rather serious but how it will unfold I can't say.  There is a great pool of anxiety and grief that was...|||sometimes vacation seems like nothing more than an opportunity to feel bad in a different place than usual. maybe this is the basic character of life-- it is what it is, and the temporary...|||ambivalent, sad, small|||With time I realize more and more how everyone I know, especially the people I know well, leave behind a residue that persists and inhabits me. By having a certain set of memories of them, a...|||I knew this post had a lovely-familiar ring to it. How's fort-duty going in your world, Luke?  It's nice to see your nose poking up for air. If worse comes to worse, we can always use our bad-ass...|||I'm not sure how much longer I can do this. I don't even know what I'm trying to do but I know that it is taking more than a pound of flesh.  I want to be fallow for awhile.  I need some time in a...|||It was a long, hard, emotional day and I'm exhausted in every way.  I managed to stagger back home at the end, but I can't even process anything.  I mostly just want to become unconscious now.|||I hurt my back about three months ago.  This happens to me periodically, but for whatever reasons, this injury was pernicious and longstanding.  I kept reinjuring myself-- and just could not manage...|||Am I content and joyful at the moment?  No; not exactly.  But I do feel relatively calm and at peace with the current reality of my life, unlike a week ago at this time.  I think two things have been...|||yesterday i meant to go for an evening walk in the forest with my SO, but my car was blocked so we ended up walking to a large urban cemetery/park instead.  i don't enjoy walking through the city...|||sad, vulnerable, alone|||attic and  LittleDreamer  I've noticed that, on average, INFPs seem to be more privacy-oriented than the most.  We also tend to write very personal 'stream of consciousness' style posts about our...|||I have pretty macabre grievance to air, so I've put it in spoilers.     I've been feeling very low lately.  It's not absolutely constant, but it's been persistent over the last few months and the...|||In this moment, as I finish the last slice of chocolate hazelnut tart, I feel happy about the existence of delightful desserts to sate my sweet tooth.  Or, as my 5 year niece says, all my sweet teeth...|||I will begin by complaining bitterly about the back injury that has been dogging me for the past two months. It hurts, it interrupts my sleep every night, and it negatively impacts my ability to...|||We are often advised to focus on the positive and uplifting rather than the negative, lest we inadvertently get stuck there, mired in the disagreeable muck of our own displeasure.    In my...|||When I saw this picture, especially in the thumbnail version, the reflection of the lights above your head looked for all the world like a pair of glowing eyes.  At first I was startled, and then...|||I had a very busy-social last few days.  It wasn't all bad; some of the interactions I enjoyed quite a bit.  But it was exhausting, especially yesterday, which was a gauntlet of visiting the 8...|||I awoke this morning from nightmares in a cloud of anxiety.  Already, the details are fading away but the dream began in my house filled with a crowd of family and friends trying to 'help' me with...|||confusion, love, rain|||Though our circumstances are undoubtedly different, I am currently occupying a very similar frame of mind.  I keep having a recurring dream in which I am suddenly overtaken by the gigantic waves...|||When I am in bed in the dark, driving, or otherwise constrained, I seem to have a roiling surfeit of thoughts and feelings ready to write out and explore.  Then, when I sit down with a means of...|||This morning, I woke up to the sound of rain.  That always makes me happy.  I love the sound and feel of rain itself but also value its effects.  Where I live, the rain will stop shortly for about 6...|||I wish I could just read things- or, for that matter, watch or listen to them- and have them wash over me in a whatever way they happened to wash, unselfconsciously, feeling no pressure to answer for...|||attic I really hope you find your cat. :crying:  I wanted to respond to your moving posts, WickerDeer but will try to do so later as I seem stuporous and cotton-mouthed at the moment.  In the...|||today is going to be a pajama day.  i have to go out into the world, drive hither and thither, engage with other people, talk, etc.-- but by god, I will do it all in PJs.  For the universe, I have...|||I find myself shedding so many tears of late.  My emotions are very close to the surface.  I feel fragile and brittle.  One tap shatters me into a pile of sharp dust, glittering and dangerous and...|||Today I walked by a pet store that focused on birds.  I popped in and found it soothing to wander through the store listening to the cacophonous melody of different bird songs, watching them preen...|||my mood has been quite volatile over the last few days.  I suppose that is not surprising-- I'm beginning bona fide mediation for my divorce tomorrow, which is a scary, daunting, serious,...|||I myself am in the camp of  Turlowe and  attic-- I love grocery shopping.  It is a place of pleasure and possibility for me, especially the farmer's market.  All the options of things I might eat,...|||anxious, overwhelmed, hopeful|||canadafreak86 *big hug* :hugs:  Your situation sounds very difficult, and I know well the temptation to plumb yourself with questions like these looking for the explanation of your situation,...|||I am feeling a lot of anger.  I'm not sure where exactly it's coming from or where it should be directed. I feel bitter, irritable, like lashing out, but it is all still mostly vague and inchoate; it...|||achey. cranky. anxious.|||I feel tired and mildly to moderately out of sorts.  Last night I woke up in the middle of the night filled with anxiety about my future, the sort of panicky feeling that makes a person run off...|||exhausted, vindicated, nervous.|||I am slowly getting myself together.  It's not pretty but it's progress. I feel gradually more accepting of myself, and also of others.  The world's not fair-- it's confusing; it's frustrating; it's...|||Today I heard the rain pittering and pattering in waves and ebbs all day long. It was like a peaceful song nature composed just for me, and it made me feel delighted and calm.  And the hills are...|||I find myself nose to nose with considerable anxiety and fear this morning.  I feel overwhelmed. That's not surprising in the circumstances, but it's also a common and generic reaction of mine to...'