{"id":20223,"date":"2020-11-12T09:29:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=20223"},"modified":"2020-11-12T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T17:29:10","slug":"student-editors-letter-an-introverts-confession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2020\/11\/12\/student-editors-letter-an-introverts-confession\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Editor’s Letter: An introvert\u2019s confession"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s election season. With the provincial election, American election, and, of course, the Camosun College Student Society election all happening recently, it\u2019s a lot of politics to consume. It all adds to all the big\u2014and sometimes stressful\u2014thoughts we\u2019re all thinking these days.<\/p>\n

I was chatting with someone last week who said that we hear words about self-care so much because they\u2019re just that important, regardless of how tired we might be of hearing them.<\/p>\n

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Camosun’s Interurban campus during COVID-19 (photo by Greg Pratt\/Nexus<\/em>).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cut to last night after class: my prof said he would stick around in case anyone wanted to chat or had any questions about the assignment. What ensued was a long, winding, sometimes jocose conversation about nothing in particular: philosophy, politics, movies, and rock music. A handful of my classmates stuck around after class, too; none of them had any intention of talking about school. They were all small bobbing heads on my screen; it wasn\u2019t the real thing, but for the first since COVID-19 hit BC in March, I wasn\u2019t just talking to one of the roughly six people in my bubble.<\/p>\n

Beyond that, it was the first time I inadvertently stumbled into a conversation with a handful of other people, and it was incredibly fulfilling to just talk. Out of survival more than anything, I had forgotten how important that was, even for an introvert. For about half an hour after our conversation, I was buzzing, as if I had drank too many cups of coffee, but it was all internal, natural, and needed. Gag me with a spoon if you must, but that sort of arbitrary interaction sometimes feels like a painful platitude when plentiful. Take it away, though, and I\u2019m left with an odd sort of feeling, as if I\u2019ve got all the calories I need on my plate but none of the nutrients.<\/p>\n

So next time you\u2019re in a Zoom or FaceTime meeting or class, think about the possibility of sticking around for a bit after if time allows; odds are the person on the other end is just as deeply entrenched in survival mode as you are, thinking big\u2014and sometimes stressful\u2014thoughts, and needing a little small talk about nothing and everything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s election season. With the provincial election, American election, and, of course, the Camosun College Student Society election all happening recently, it\u2019s a lot of politics to consume. It all adds to all the big\u2014and sometimes stressful\u2014thoughts we\u2019re all thinking these days. I was chatting with someone last week who said that we hear words […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20160,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-webexclusive","category-views"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t