I’m about as introverted as a person can be without curling into a little ball and crawling back inside my mother’s womb. I love to read. Most of the time I’m quite content to be by myself. And while I long for two or three friends in this new city of mine, if I had much more than that I’d probably feel stress.
I’ve also always been drawn to mountains. I feel a great deal of comfort when in a mountainous area. I think it’s because there are lots of nooks and crannies, coves and hollows, valleys and bends. Nature’s womb. It’s as if I’m being embraced by the land. You never hear things on the prairie being described as “cozy”. I love cozy. I feel somehow safer in the mountains. Mountains are the topographical version of introversion.
That makes me wonder if extreme extroverts prefer wide open spaces. But in a way that would be counterintuitive, because those places are typically lonely and isolated. Maybe they’d favor a big city that’s surrounded by wide open spaces. Dallas. Yeah. That might work.
Hey, it’s a theory.
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The View from a Drawbridge 
This brings to mind, the late. great John Denver. whom performed be for millions to fill his creative needs, hen would escape to his beloved mountains and oceans, for peace.
I saw him in concert once. I miss him.
Topographical symbolism is never as simple as some folks treat it. A few hundred years back, people thought of mountains as disgusting/scary blemishes on a smooth world; then they were sublime viewpoints and havens of mystical thought. Now here is someone who finds them cozy. I find this variation delightful. What are your thoughts on caves?
Me, I’m into fjords right now, because I’m one of those deep thinkers…
I like to check out caves every chance I get. I find them cool, but I don’t find them comforting because they’re too damp and cave spiders absolutely freak me out. But I have to say I do love a good fjord. 🙂
All right, now I am curious–what are your quality criteria for fjords?
Well, I must admit I’ve only seen the ones in Spain, so I can’t really speak to that with any authority. But I have hopes for the future. 🙂
I think Dallas is a city suited for extroverts – not because of the wide open spaces (the city itself has grown to the point where it sort of makes its own “mountains”) but because of the open friendliness of the Texas style. People from, say, east coast cities are sometimes a little taken aback by how total strangers will walk up to you and start talking like they have known you forever.
Interesting stuff, thanks for sharing.
Thanks Bill! This is good to know. I’ve only been to the Dallas airport myself, but now maybe one of these days I’ll have to check it out.
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