Am I A Private Person

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Am I A Private Person? I am too much of a loner to be really private. I have few if any dark secrets. For many years I have openly, candidly discussed my employment issues, my alienation from my family and my strange cult experiences in the 1980’s. If anything my often direct open declarations of my thoughts and feelings can hit people like high-voltage. Many people end up feeling wary if not fraid of me, especially people in positions of authority. I do tend towards very long intense periods of introspection which can leave me detached from the people around me and I can switch in an instant to wild displays of extrovert public activity, and performance bordering on exhibitionism. My daily online diary pages reveal me very candidly to the public and it isn’t that I hold much back, it is just that with me what you see is what you get. I am selective in that I skirt over the real trivia of what colour socks I have on or what I ate for breakfast, unless they are out of the ordinary for me. I like solitude rather than privacy in that I cherish peace, quiet and minimum distraction from the outside World. I prefer a near monastic reclusive hermitude existence to the pandemonium of crowds. I can be alone without feeling lonely for long periods of time. I would cope well in solitary confinement if thus imprisoned. I can put my thoughts and feelings in order if left to my own devises, but I welcome and love the company of my friends too. There are no ‘Private-keep out’ signs around my personality or psyche. Arthur Chappell