Lesson #2: Have Patience.
Starting this week, I’ve renamed this feature…again. “To Succeed” sounds like you’re going to take the world by storm—and you might. But “To Be Happy” sounds more like contentment, which is my major goal here.
No matter what happens, or where you end up in life, “successful” or not, being content with the way you’re made is important. Plus, lots of people think introverts are naturally melancholy, morose, lonely, or insecure; it rarely occurs to us that someone can be quiet because they are fulfilled.
And so, on with the lesson.
While there is nothing wrong with being an introvert, there is something terribly defective in letting our wiring overpower us to the point where we simply can’t function. Good ol’ Charlie Brown sang it best:
“I’m usually awful at parties and dances,
I stand like a stick or I cough, or I laugh,
Or I don’t bring a present, or I spill the ice cream
Or I get so depressed that I stand and I scream…”
Poor old round-headed kid. I wish someone had been around to tell him that just because he wasn’t chatting up a storm with every person in the room, or zinging away with the right witty quip for every conversation, it didn’t mean he was failing.
