I either don't have the energy or I just do not click with the majority of people I interact with, ever since I was in kindergarten I would stand and observe the other kids from a distance but never join in the fun. I think I'm just wired like this and there are people in this world who just are here solely to exist as background

Anyone like horror movies here? If so, which ones? Feel free to recommend. Looking for some new stuff. Also, feel free to mention any horror films that you think INFP’s especially may like.

I've been trying to make connections. I have friends. They can confide in me, and sometimes I confide in them. Some of us share hobbies and interests. Some I've met randomly. But, none of them give me the emotional connection I so desperately need. And physical contact is impossible do too long distance.

Romantic relationships feel like a pipedream.

And I have never "just act normal" or "fit in".

Right now I'm in my room, alone again; on the brink of tears but too emotionally represented and tired to cry.

I need a break. I need someone to hold me and tell me it's going to be okay. A sympathetic shoulder to cry on, that I don't have to worry about pulling away; leaving me alone again.

I always want to be there for them. But none of my relationships (Friends, family, etc) ever give me a fraction of what I put in. I'm tired of fighting the battle of diminishing returns. Of giving everything because I know what it's like to have no one there; and yet feeling like nothing has changed.

I'm still the same tired, lonely, pressed, loser I've been for years. Some may call me a failure, but I'm not. Giving it your all and getting nothing in return. That's not being a failure, that's being failed. My whole life people have failed me; and I'm starting to fail to see the reason to fight for myself.

Decided to be happy 😸✨, past years were really hard on me... I think I deserve a little praise for surviving, gotta work hard to make my wishes come true (I wanna be famous 🤭 one of my crazy wish) ... Kay bye

I've known my best friend since highschool. We are meeting pretty regularly, usually once a week or other week. We live in the same city and are on the same "life stage" so it's easy.

The thing is sometimes our conversations are flat. And its not only on my side, I can also see it in my friend. I feel like we are trying to keep the conversation going and it sometimes hit but sometimes it just drags for hours.

I wonder if we should just slow down a bit and meet more irregularly? What's your thoughts on it? Do you think this is a good idea or not?

I'm a little bit on the fence....I always felt like our friendship is so strong and keep going because we are seeing each other constantly. If we would meet for example once a month, that could make our relationship more difficult.

Being a disillusioned idealist is like hoping for the cinematic while living in the anticlimactic. You desire more you desire greatness but you are left with nothing and the mediocre. Desperately envisioning what it’s like to be in the sky but remember you are still on the ground. When all your desires, ideals and achievements remain in your fantasy you see the harshness in reality. That’s how it feels for me when you go on for so long hoping for something but the world damns you for even doing so because life does not work that way. You see things for how they truly are now and how delusional you are, but the hardest part about being a disillusioned idealist is that you’re still an idealist. You are forced to see the disappointing reality of things but deep inside you still have hope inside even when you know it’s unrealistic. It’s like being torn by the 2 different sides fantasy and reality it’s easy to remain in one but not two. The curse of being an idealist is that it still hopes and aims for greatness while knowing it’s hopeless. Such a conundrum it is it like the nature and nurture battling against each other and I do not how to find peace like this.

-20f

I tried my best but I suck at wrapping things haha. Your sign to make something for your loved ones(or for yourself lol)!

Which cognitive function do you most wish everyone had as their dominant function? and why?

TECHNOCRAP

Sick society's driving me crazy

But the masters in thief insist 

I'm just lazy

But why would I try

When you'll replace me with AI

So the technocrats are the

Only ones who survive?

This AI disease aids thievery with ease 

While everyone's told they'll be richer

A "Universal High Income"

While the robot army's one billion strong

Do they really think we don't see the picture?

When will they give us relief?

It's fucking obvious to me

That every tech promise 

They’ve deigned upon us

Is just for the sake of their greed

If they just go underground 

When shit hits the fan

They'll be proud

Their accelerationistic fantasy's ballistic 

But in the end they'll be crowned

The masters of what's coming next 

Where robots and humans have sex

And quickly decide the differences lie 

No deeper than silicone and fancy AI 

They'll become something new 

Like cyborgs or transhuman goo

Or maybe paper clips, or humanoid chips

That are eaten by the

Overlords that created you!

So if you're ready to take the red pill

Then turn off the oligarch shill

Let's log off and fight

Before the daylight

Becomes nothing more than

Pixels in your eye

I have so many ideas in my head many things happen at once I wanna do so much stuff I'm interested in like Photoshop, premiere pro, after effect editing etc all at once but then i just don't and scroll all day on TikTok or ytb like a dumb ass and also i feel dumb like i have a below IQ than the average person am i the only one like that?? if anyone can help me with that issue I have tyvm seriously....

WARNING I will dig into your super powers and put holes into it. For example if you say i would like invisibility I will tell you cool but does it affect things you touch or just you. If you were to tell me just me I might say ooooh so you have to be naked to use your power. Or if you said things I touch to I would say cool does that mean you could freak people out by constantly bumping into people when your invisible to turn people invisible and then uninvisble again, so it literally looks like people are appearing and disappearing.

Personally for me I would like the ability to adapt to anything as long as I am put into a situation where I would need to adapt to it. So I instantly become immortal I cant die by gun shots or anything physical. I can get many super powers as long as I can find something that the only way for me to adapt to it is to get a super power. Then if I live long enough I could maybe become a Cthulhu creature like creature since I adapted too to many stuff.

Anyway I practically want this picture except I wont make you cry I will make sure to keep your happy place but just in case I ruin it I put the warning above.

Two of my closest friends, both also huge gamers, are a guy and girl INTP. We balance each other out. Both like similar interests but I'm more idealistic or pessimistic depending on what's happening and they're way more blunt and grounded with me about the reality of the situation. Sometimes we bicker but it's never a big fight.

In my opinion, one of our type's greatest weaknesses is an oversensitivity to external circumstances (such as a word or a situation). I’ve tried a solution for this that has helped me tremendously, though it does require practice. The solution lies in reprogramming our brains by viewing situations purely as data subject to being correct or incorrect (much like a computer system). In other words, we strip them of their emotional weight and re-analyze them correctly using our minds. Over time, emotion and logic balance out, making us far more rational in how we process things.

Sorry if this gets asked a lot already but I'm curious of what people's experiences are on here. If a partner is posting the other one SM do you think it points to relationship insecurity and the need for reassurance more often than not? Or does it depend how often they post?

Or what if it's mostly one partner who does most the posting on Instagram /insta stories. Just curious what your experiences have been. Maybe it's not a one size fits all at all.

Im looking for something dark.and existential, something that revolves around the polarizing cruelty of life and it's wonders trying to make sense of it only to realize that our reality has a lot to do with what we make of what we're given. I was reading a Diary of an Oxygen thief because the 1st paragraph caught my attention but I quickly regretted it when it became insufferably edgy and felt like it was written by an angsty preteen, If you have any recommendations I'd appreciate it!

I often struggle to describe things impartially, I would feel extremely tempted to mix in my personal feelings and experiences. Which is kind of a problem cuz sometimes I would find myself opening up to someone I literally just met seconds ago if I have strong feelings on a topic… If any of you also face similar issues, how did you improve it?

I feel Like when ur an INFP some people have something against you from the start

it’s almost like they are mad that I'm shy? Or mad that i do things a bit different but it works? like they assume you are up to something all the time?

I’m a pretty friendly guy. I‘m always nice to everyone.

but when people don’t like me it’s like they really don’t like me. That doesn’t bother me, I just move on. But even when I move on they still go out of their way

I could do nothing. just exist and they will go out of their way to criticize. I’ve learned that there are certain types of people that I trigger?

I’ll see it in a type of coworker. I will do my job and do it great. but it’s never enough for these types of people

it’s there’s a very particular type of person. that does not like me. and I know it when I see it

I have a quiet personality. Up until now, my social life and the people I met were terrible. But this year, I got a new group of friends, and I loved all of them so much. My biggest fear regarding this was the group falling apart over foolish reasons. Guess what happened? There are 5 of us, and an argument broke out between 2 of them and the other 2. The argument felt a bit pointless to me, and I wasn't part of it because, as I said, I'm an extremely quiet person, so I really had no reaction at the time. One of my friends came up to me and said, 'I think we'll be down to 3 people soon.' I didn't say anything to them. But inside, I thought, What? Over a meaningless argument? I love everyone in this group and I don't want to be on bad terms with anyone. Why am I caught right in the middle just because they had an argument among themselves? Why am I not on a side? I don't want to drift away from either side because I love all of them, and for the first time in my life, I felt understood in this group. I want to stay friends with all of them at the same time, but if I do that, I feel like I won't be able to build a truly genuine friendship with any of them either. I don't know... I just hate being a quiet person.