Blue Cat Defends!Raise your hand if four in-person social engagements within a two day span makes you feel like a dead battery who needs at least a week to recover 🖐🏻
People mistake me for an extrovert and it’s the worst 🤦♀️
Chris Duchateau
cinja ♾️To all the lovely extroverts (and I mean it - you are lovely!) please know that cheerfulness does not equal extroversion for everyone. Some introverts are just… cheerful. 🦄
And I’m cheerful because I do not schedule four back to back social engagements. I’m not sure what happened this week but I’m only halfway through and I want to spend a week under a rock.
@bluecat more like 4 engagements in 2 weeks ..
Johnny Wheels 
@bluecat that sounds painful
crashd@bluecat jup I get that. While such things can be very rewarding for all involved, including me, I am not looking forward to them and feel incredibly drained after.
@crashd I volunteer myself for things because I know it’s healthy (especially as an ex-pat in a foreign country) to see people now and again, and I don’t hate it once I’m there. But it does just absolutely drain me. And even the idea of staying out late at night for drinks makes me want to ghost 😶🌫️🫡
@bluecat funny thing: While I am there, it is all right, and I mostly enjoy myself for a certain amount of time. Before and after is not great, though. Hard to put that complexity in 500 char.
Congrats for what, I assume, is pushing yourself to the edges of your comfort zone. I agree, btw. some connections work best face2face and getting and maintaining those in foreign surroundings is important.
Congrats for what, I assume, is pushing yourself to the edges of your comfort zone. I agree, btw. some connections work best face2face and getting and maintaining those in foreign surroundings is important.
@crashd way outside my comfort zone, for sure. But was worth it! Nice to know others understand the sentiment, I sometimes feel like I’m the only one.
@bluecat super glad to hear that you got something positive for the energy you put in. You are definitely not alone with the sentiment. I think there are quite a few people that can relate. I also feel that most of us are not great a discussing it in public. Comes with the territory, I guess. Thanks for sharing is what I am trying to say.
Destiny 
@bluecat social sprinting is exhausting! If i have one big social engagement (like a wedding) coming up, it means the month leading up to will be filled with low to medium increasing anxiety and the month after is hiding and being unreachable