I'm an INFJ - Embracing Your Personality

My fellow bloggers, writers, and avid readers, it is time to talk about our quiet, word-loving personality. Or is it just mine? *winks*

But really, I've noticed a lot of writers/bloggers are introverts. I myself am an INFJ according to the tests I've done. The advocate, the defender, or the guardian. Supposedly, people with INFJ personalities are "rare". I don't know if I quite believe it, but I will admit that I do often feel like no one understands me.

I'm different.

No one else is quite like me.

I get lonely.

I feel crazy.

I have the fear, deep down, that I'll never belong anywhere.

I can share a lot, but I never really, really share my heart because I'm afraid no one would understand.

For a girl who longs for deep, intimate connections and community, it's a terrible thing to feel so separate from other people.

I think the loneliness and fear drive me to try to understand myself. Then I feel guilty for researching "myself"—like I'm enamored with me, haha.

But, actually, I've heard that INFJ's just have a hunger to understand their personality and the personalities of others. I want to know why I feel, react, and think certain ways. I want to understand why other people do what they do and say what they say.

And when I read things about the INFJ personality and think, Hey, that's what I do. Maybe that's why I behave this way and feel such-and-such—then I feel more okay with being me.

And you know what? It IS okay that I'm me! It's more than okay. It's perfect. God, in His infinite wisdom, created me just the way I am with exactly the personality I have. He made me introverted, bookish, relational, a dreamer, a deep thinker, and a deep feeler. He created me this way, and therefore He understands me, even when I think nobody does. Even when I can't understand myself.

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