Southern Born

Born in Raleigh, North Carolina 74 years ago on Halloween, I am according to Myers-Briggs, not only a Southern Scorpion but I am an INTJ personality type.


Why Are INTJs So Rare?
INTJs are among the least common of the personality types. It’s only logical to ask: why are INTJs so rare? It seems there should be many more of us.  The truth is that INTJs are full of contradictions.

• Open-minded while seeming standoffish
• Natural leaders but hate leading
• Highly analytical but imaginative
• Love deep conversation but not great socializers
• Logical except with relationships

So, what does that really make me...  if anything?

Well...  I will tell you what it makes me...  it makes me different than most...

And, while I like being different and unique, I am left without many, if any, friends...  at least friends that I would call close...

And, the older I get, the more I have discovered that one does not need many if any, friends at all...

Being old is a time for reflections, ponderings, and remembering...  not so much in the sense of what I would have done differently if given the chance but just reviewing all that has been done or not done as one might catalog a group of plants or look at how one's clothes are hanging in the closet.

Many people say that age is just a number and that is true because they are trying to get something from you...  because age is more than just a number...  it is a true representation of approximately how long we have left to live, all things being equal.

Life is finite although some believe that life in a religious context is infinite and it might be, but if it is...  it will not be in the same physical form that we are living life today...  that physical form is finite...

And so, I am left pondering, reflecting, and remembering...  and, while I would do nothing differently, I cannot help but think and perhaps believe that I made some bad choices along the way mixed in with the good choices.

Life is what it is...  some say while others speculate that one's life is exactly what had been intended for that life...  but, if that is the case, who intended it to be that way? and why?

If our choices have all been pre-determined then "free will" as we have come to expect it to be is bullshit...  and does not exist...  just as our choices never existed...  we are victims of someone else's design(s).

And, why does all this matter when one gets to be my age?

It doesn't and that's the point.

Whatever life is or was, it is almost gone at this age, even though I still have quite a few years of it left...