The Dreamer's Pen

One of the biggest misconceptions about introverts is this idea that we don’t want to talk to anyone. Like we’re hiding in the corner silently hissing at human interaction.

No. Absolutely not.

I love talking. I can talk for hours.

With the right people.

That’s the part everyone seems to miss.

I’m not avoiding conversation because I’m shy or antisocial or plotting my escape (…okay, sometimes I am plotting my escape, but usually for good reasons). It’s just that talking for the sake of filling the silence does nothing for me. I don’t want to juggle 200 acquaintances just to say I have a big social circle. That sounds exhausting. I don’t need “friends” just to collect them like keychains. Give me the people who get me. The ones who can sit in a room with me and talk about everything and nothing at the same time. The ones who don’t make me feel like I have to perform. The ones who speak in feelings and thoughts, not buzzwords and filler.

With those people?

I can talk for hours.

No breaks. No awkwardness. No emotional hangover afterward. Just real connection. But put me in a room full of small talk, random acquaintances and social chaos?

Suddenly I’m conserving energy like a phone at 1%. It’s not that we introverts don’t want to talk. It’s that we don’t want to waste our words. I don’t need hundreds of friends. I just need a handful of the right ones. People who feel like good conversation, peace, and home.

Find those people and trust me -introverts are some of the easiest, warmest, most talkative humans you’ll ever meet.