An ENFJ’s perspective on social distancing
I don’t know how much you know about Myers Briggs personality types, but your girl over here is an authentic ENFJ. If you don’t know anything, all that you need to know is that the ‘E’ stands for ‘extrovert’. So basically, I thrive on social interaction. And what’s the opposite of social interaction? Social isolation, or better known as our shared current state of community due to COVID-19. So, if you still don’t understand, I’m currently not doing the best.
It doesn’t help that other notable traits for ENFJ’s are being oversensitive and a characterized worrier. I’m sure you can see how this doesn’t pair well with trying to survive a pandemic. Along with general worries regarding COVID-19, I happen to have my wonderful great-grandparents as roommates, one of which actually celebrated his 83rd birthday today (happy quarantine birthday paw paw). I’m sure they are tired of me reminding them to wash their hands every 5 seconds but I truly cannot help it knowing they are most susceptible. Also knowing that my long-distance boyfriend is finally 15 minutes down-the-road again instead of 11 hours away but I can’t see him completely sucks.
But, ENFJ’s are also known to be optimistic and lively. I’m trying my best to stay happy and cheer up the people around me. It is hard to be the best me possible when feeling a degree of loneliness I have truly never felt before. I do miss my friends and being in a cold classroom at 9:30am and my boyfriend and the movie theater and my roommate and the park. All we can do in this time is hope and according to my personality type, I’m pretty good at that.
Kalei is a Scientist 