Breakaway

People believed in character in the previous centuries. They lived in small towns where everyone knew each other. It was calm, it was peaceful and most importantly people knew each other by their character; who they are from the inside.
Recently, almost a decade or two ago, people started moving from small towns to big cities where they were expected to work in a different environment and interact with different people. In the cities, only those people were able to shine who could easily get along with others, socialise, do team work and basically just be seen in a crowd. This is where the problem started.
Extroverts generally became more “acceptable” and intorverts became outcasts. No matter how creative a person is, the first and often last impression is made by how well people gel with others and if they are able to handle crowds and large groups of unfamiliar people. In our school and work places, team work is being promoted increasingly even for college admissions, for leadership posts, the first and foremost thing that most people have set as the criteria for judging people is whether they are able to adjust in a new environment and if they can speak up in a room full of people.
This is a biased criteria. Extroverts can easily ace this. They are naturally gifted. Introverts, on the other hand, are expected to “work on themselves” and become more outgoing. They are expected to come out of their shell. This hinders the growth of introverts as from a very early age they start trying to tranform thenselves into an extrovert. They try to become more “socially acceptable”. This, in my opinion, needs to be stopped.
According to research extroverts are better speakers, debaters and better at team work while introverts are more creative, come up with better ideas, are better writers, thinkers, poet and philosophers. When we take from them their solitude or make them feel guilty for staying alone, we are actually depriving ourselves of all those genius ideas and remarkable achievements that they were going to achieve.
Everybody has their own role in a society. To classify extroverts as being better than introverts can destroy they societal balance as well as the mental health of a lot of people who’d rather stay in their room with a book than go out and party. It is high time we accept people for who they are and stop passing comments such as ” she is a loner” or ” he is too rowdy” because i know from personal experience that this hurts. Being called out in a gathering for talking too less hurts. This is not something that introverts do. This is who they are and i read somewhere once that if you ever have to make fun of somebody make sure it is not about who they are but about what they do. Every person is unique and very very beautiful in their own gorgeous ways. With 2020 around the corner, its time we improve our mentality and be more accepting and less judgemental because the world needs more of that.