It’s hard to describe being an introvert, and it’s harder to describe the process it takes for me to ask for help.

While I’m not the most reserved or anti-social person, I definitely feel introverted during days where I have had to engage in a lot of social interaction. Getting out of my comfort zone to talk to strangers for a night is all fine and dandy, but then I end up self-imposing a one week buffer period in between these social events where I can stay home and relax. People have called this self-imposed isolation period as “charging your battery,” which is a phrase I warmly welcome into my vocabulary because it makes me seem less odd the next time I describe it.