NewEra
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Chosen One - Do you see sharing what you feel as a weakness/waste of time mostly because you use Thinking as your main function and so feel that the Feeling function is extraneous to the decisions you make?
Well, sort of. I'm not a robot or anything, I do have feelings, but I choose not to share them. My introverted feeling is very high, and it really keeps me on track many times when my head is not on straight.
Everyone - I want to understand this better. I cannot avoid feeling something and can't imagine how it would require thought to figure out what you feel. When something happens to you, what goes through your head first if it is not feelings??? I realize that some types are more independent than others. Are there really no moments when you wish that someone truly understood who you were all the way through? Or would that just feel like a big invasion of privacy?
Good questions, all of them. When something happens to me, I may feel things but I'm admittedly not in tune with them as much, and not as aware of what I feel because I automatically don't pay as much attention to them. I constantly wish others knew who I was all the way through but I'm not comfortable letting my feelings out in the open to make sure they understand me. Privacy has something to do with it, I don't want to give out too much information.
Would you ever think over things that have happened in your life and assess what you liked and what should have been different? Most of the SJs I know would be more likely to just say "What is, is, so why worry about it?" So if that is indeed the case, what informs your future decisions and how do you go about gathering information?
I usually never look back into the past, and say I should have done this, or I shouldn't have done that. I worry more about the immediate future than the past.