{"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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20224,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20223\/revisions\/20224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}