Heather
No. 14Needing an audience, talking mostly about yourself, and dreading being alone
3 remedies
Loneliness
For the different ways people end up apart from others, including the ones who talk the most.
Only three remedies sit here, and they describe three quite different people who all end up alone.
There is the person who keeps a natural distance, capable and self-contained, who others sometimes read as aloof. There is the person who is so quick and impatient that they would rather work alone than wait for anybody. And there is the person who talks and talks about themselves, needs an audience constantly, and empties the room without meaning to.
That last one surprises people, because it does not look like loneliness from the outside. It is the loneliest of the three.
The 3 remedies in this group
Which remedy for loneliness?
Three remedies for three quite different people, all of whom end up on their own. Only one of them looks lonely from the outside.
Being on your own is the hard part
Heather
You need somebody to talk to, the conversation comes back around to you, and the room quietly empties.
Everybody else is too slow
Impatiens
You finish their sentences, then do the job alone, because waiting for it to be done properly is unbearable.
You keep a distance, and people read it as aloof
Water Violet
Self-contained and capable. You would rather handle it yourself than lean on anybody, and mostly you do.