One Creative Introverts Effort To Take On The Extroverted Marketing World…

Welcome to day eleven of 365 Days Of Marketing And Me… today turned out to be a good one… now that the weekend is over… and all of the holiday/family stuff should be done for quite a while… granted… I kept to myself as much as I could throughout the season… since I started to isolate myself five years before Covid-19 due to health issues and social anxiety… the rest of my family doesn’t seem to mind the risk… traveling back and forth through hotspots casually… as if nothing were going on…

As much as I enjoyed seeing the family members that I got to see… who traveled in for my cousin’s funeral services… I have to say that… on top of the social anxiety issues… their frivolous outlook on this pandemic makes me nervous… especially how they all shared how they were also nervous when talking to me… but changed their tune instantly the second that more people joined in on the conversation…

I think I’m more freaked out by how quickly their outlooks changed… because I lived away up in Seattle for 20 years… and I’m realizing just how little I know about these people… especially the way they hide their opinions and emotions to avoid any conflict… it’s not that they then get confrontational with numbers… they just seem to be more casual about the true beliefs with others to back them up…

The thing that sucks is that I’m the only non-religious/non-conservative one in the bunch… and I too always avoid conflict… but… I will always stick to the same beliefs… I just choose wording that’s more palatable while sharing my opinion… or at least try… especially now that I’m older and no longer want to fight… which is why I opted to hide in the first place…

So… now that everyone is gone… and I’m back to dealing with individuals minus the guilt from avoiding the crowd… I’m excited that this challenge will get 100% of my attention again… but unfortunately… for today… all that I have is this little update and promise of change moving forward!!!

Until then… it’s now time for me to dig into today’s assignment…

Another reason this post might sound uninspired is that for today’s assignment… the 365 Day Of Marketing book says that it’s Splash A Friend Day… which is hard for me… since I burned all of my bridges when I moved away from Seattle… so not only do I have family issues… I no longer have any friends… making this friendship themed assignment pretty rough…

Though I point out my problems with others… I know that ultimately… I’m the one to blame for all of these relationships becoming awkward… since everyone else still seems to get along perfectly fine without me… and besides… my bigger issue is with myself… and my failure to figure out how to fit in… even amongst those who want me around…

Once again… I’m not sure how well this assignment meets the task at hand… but… this is all that I could come up with based on the subject…