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	Please Don't Shatter My Diamond Part 2 by Nancy R. Fenn Be My Astrologer
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Please Don't Shatter My Diamond
Part 2
by Nancy R. Fenn

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I was amazed to find this essay several weeks ago written most likely around 1800 (!) by the German philosopher Arnold Schopenhauer. Before your eyes glaze over, let me assure you it's message is succinct and cogent two hundred years later in the New Millennium. One of Germany's greatest philosophers begins by saying that "banging and hammering and general noise-making has been a daily torment" to him all his life.

"There are people," he says, "who are insensitive to noise, but these are the same people who are insensitive to argument, ideas, to poetry and works of art, in short to intellectual impressions of every kind" because of their "tough constitution" and the "firm texture" of their brain. It's pretty obvious to me he's describing the difference between introverts and extroverts and doing this very nicely.

Schopenhauer also explains that other writers have had the same problem. He mentions Kant, Goethe and several others not well known today. I myself have a quote from Goethe which says, "My greatest wealth is the deep stillness in which I strive and grow and win what the world cannot take from me with fire or sword."

Schopenhauer continues by describing how disruptive it is when a racket occurs. Some introverts on my Sparrow Retreat Introverts Forum have described neighbors using snow blowers at 1:30 in the morning, hot tub parties til break of dawn with screaming and explicit language, working on cars over the weekend with radios blaring, squawking PA systems and, most inappropriately of all, cell phones invading every bit of privacy we have left.

As one man wrote, "Noise pollution? I think this is true. Perfect example: I'm in the bathroom at work standing at a urinal, doing my business. If someone walks in - another introvert - they will just do their business and leave. If an extrovert - like one of the sales guys - walks in - immediately conversation ensues. 'How bout those Mets?' type conversation. Drives me berserk."

A woman on the Forum replied, "If you think that's bad, I've been in the women's room when someone initiates a call from the stall next to me and carries on a perky conversation with their boyfriend. That's when I start flushing the toilet so perhaps she will be ashamed when someone on the other end hears what she's doing. What has happened to people's sense of decency?"

Aside from annoyance in public places, noise can disrupt one of the things we introverts do best, contemplation. Introverts learn by turning facts into knowledge. We like to "think it over" and "connect the dots". Contrary to popular belief by suspicious extroverts, that is more than likely what we are doing in our rooms with the doors closed - thinking something over!

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Nancy R. Fenn is an astrologer and intuitive consultant in the San Diego area. She enjoys working with intuitives, creatives and visionaries to help them discover their vision for the future and their mission in life. She has an international clientele and maintains a website full of good resources for astrologers of all levels. Nancy is also the Introverts' Coach providing support and resources for the eight different types of introverts. Introversion is a legitimate personality type and not a failure to be an extrovert.

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