If you're loud and sociable, I beg you: leave us introverts alone 🔵 We are going to live life as it was intended for us. Quietly. Largely indoors. Largely alone ✍️ LucyMangan for ipaperviews
Lucy Mangan: ‘I was hungover. Hungover! After two drinks! In five hours!’ ., I limited myself to one glass of champagne and felt simultaneously virtuous, delightfully dizzy, and not migrainously ill.
Then we went back to her flat where her lovely partner cooked us lovely food and said lovely things about my book and the meaninglessness of awards anyway. I had one more drink, more delightful dizziness untainted by migrainous horrors, and was home by 11 o’clock. And for the next 48 hours was a wreck. I mean it. I was no good to anyone. For a start, I was hungover. Hungover! After two drinks! In five hours! It is simply not possible to drink less than this unless you don’t drink at all. And anyway – that wasn’t even the real problem. The real problem is that I was exhausted. Not physically but everything else-ly. I was completely drained of resources. Couldn’t move, couldn’t talk, couldn’t think. I was technically a mineral for two days.
An alternative title for this column could be: “When Introverts Age”. Because this, essentially, is the problem. The official, maybe even clinical, definition of an introvert is someone who is depleted by social interaction . An extrovert is restored by it. One can’t function with it, one can’t function without it. Our capacity for mingling is extremely limited to begin with, and then, as the years pass, they shrink and calcify.
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