not awkward

I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about things. I do that a lot, in case you didn’t know. Today I found a site that talks about the different personalities from the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (personality test). I took that test about a month ago and it turns out I’m an INFP, which is somewhat rare in our society. Incidentally, most great writers are also INFP. That’s kinda interesting. What is it about INFPs that make us more apt at writing? I don’t necessarily consider myself a great writer but I’m working on it. I’d like to be a good writer. The site’s description of my personality type told me a lot of things about myself that I don’t like, and a lot that’s fascinating and interesting, most of it was dead on. It’s scary to me how close it was to how I actually am. It tells me a lot about why I do act the way I do, but the most important part was it told me a lot about my strengths, which isn’t something that I always knew but was never able to concretely describe them. Interestingly enough, the description also talks about how INFPs have a hard time figuring out their strengths.

I still don’t know what I want to do with my future, but that site helped me realize more and more that I want to do something different, something creative. I want to express myself. I want to describe the world through my eyes with my words. The hard part is following through without much experience. How does one just write for a living? Don’t you need a portfolio of some type? Just write. Keep writing. Rewrite. That’s how it’s done. I just wish I had started sooner, and I had something to show for myself. It’s the story of my life. I guess we all have to start somewhere.