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In one of the INFP groups on Facebook, I saw a meme, it said

I have never met an INFJ who did not either make art or play music on a daily basis, and I have never met an INFP who did not either read or play video games every day either.

Which is super interesting. As an INFP, can confirm, I read every day. (I have been trying to read a lot, 2 hrs a day, in order to actively stretch my concentration span. Or I was a few months ago. But even when I'm not doing that I do read a lot.)
One of my closest friends Carly is INFJ and she more than anyone I know (who is not a teenage boy) plays video games a lot. But then, she paints, too. But probably not every day.

And I don't know her personality type, but Anne-Marie paints a lot too. This makes me wonder if she is INFJ too.
 
Then again, the whole thing could be a bunch of cobblers. I don't think I know any INFPs irl. That said, I don't know Carly or Anne-Marie irl either. But I see Carly every day on Facebook and she feels like my best friend who lives next door. And Anne-Marie is my relative, and therefore the rest of my family know her too, even though she also lives in a different country from me/us and I know her through WhatsApp and Facebook and online bible studies and not physically. But she doesn't feel like an Internet friend either.

Someone I was at high school and college with rings a bell for INFJ irl by this token, playing music every day. And she was good at music, as were a lot of my friends from high school*, but she needs it for her soul too, I think.

*https://unmowngrass.livejournal.com/222587.html
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Been a long time since I've updated. What's changed?
  • I've moved house, I live on my own now. It's...ok.
  • There's been some shake up of relationships. Some people taking a step away (mostly family), some taking a step forward. I am starting to get a sense of who my real friends for life are, whom I should be investing in the most. Most notably, Anne-Marie. A distant relation, but also, maybe my closest relation.
  • I've been going to a support group. Currently twice a week. I'm having counselling there, and they do workshops to increase self esteem and things like that. The name of the support group is Number 11.
  • It's because of them and the aforementioned self esteem workshop that the perhaps biggest change occurred. I've changed my name! I now go by my middle name as my main name. Elizabeth. That was a year ago this weekend. It's not why I did it, but it has definitely separated the people who respect me from those who don't. But maybe more of that on another day.
  • Also, in part because of Number 11, I've uncovered the big dream for my life. I want to be a foster carer! I don't know how I'm going to get there, because I currently live in a very small flat that does not have a child's bedroom, but that is where I want to go.
  • I've moved churches. Still getting settled in. I've always been a pentecostal at heart, although I went to the baptist church for a long time. And now I'm at a church that is a bit more pentecostal, I think.
  • I've been on a date! It was the first one in a long, long time. And that one didn't work out, but I am looking forward to finding someone else who I can maybe be in love with again.
  • Did I have a niece last time you heard from me? Well she's 3 now, had her birthday party recently. She was just starting to love me and then there was a pandemic and I didn't see her for over 6 months and then I moved house so even when she was back to going to my Mum's every Thursday, I wasn't there, and now she doesn't really love me anymore. Unfortunately. But I still love her. 💕

That's it, I think, for the time being.

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