We're a group of people who will party for hours, days, even weeks on end playing some of the hardest, most mentally demanding drinking games. Over, and over, and over all for nothing more than a temporary Snapchat story saying we did.
We'll punish our selfs doing things others would consider torture, because we think it's fun.
We'll spend most if not all of our free time making plans to go to happy hour with friends all to spend the evening at a bar that charges $8 for mixed drinks you could just make at home.
Many of us have made careers out of doing just these things: communicating with customers, all day, the same markets over and over, hundreds of times to the point where we know every little detail such that some have attained such extrovert nirvana that they can literally sell to customers blindfolded.
Do these people have any idea how many bars have been hopped, group selfies taken, new Korean BBQ places visited? All to latter be referred to as a typical weekend night?
These people honestly think this is a battle they can win? They mock our friend groups? We're already building a new one without them. They close our brunch spots? Extroverts aren't shy about throwing their money else where, or even hosting brunch with our closest friends our selves. They think calling us too talkative, dramatic, and histrionic is going to change us? We've been called worse things by drunk frat bros at a pool party in Vegas. They picked a fight against a group that's already grown desensitized to their strategies and methods. Who enjoy the battle of attrition they've threatened us with. Who take it as a challange when they tell us we no longer matter. Our obsession with proving we can after being told we can't is so deeply ingrained from years of dealing with shut-ins and internet nerds laughing at our propensity towards prolonged eye contact that proving you people wrong has become a very real need; a honed reflex.
Extroverts are social, high energy, by nature. We love a challange. The worst thing you did in all of this was to challange us. You're not special, you're not original, you're not the first; this is just another night at the karaoke bar.
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If you're going through hell, keep going. -Winston Churchill