Posted by Ev on November 01, 1999 at 17:18:16:
In Reply to: It's all about the Sensors posted by Emily, the very anxious Senior on November 01, 1999 at 17:06:47:
: Hey again...
: High School. Ah, yes, the parties, the beer, drugs, sex, Saturday night Football games, Homecoming, Prom...these are the best years of our lives.
: *BARF*
: I HATE school with a passion. I don't know if you've done any reading up on the MBTI lately, but teenagers *seem* to all be sensors. Shallow hedonists that only focus on wishy-washy traditions and late night cruisin' with their friends. They are called Sensors because it is their senses that give them information about the world. Sight, Sound, Touch, Taste, Smell. They do what Feels good, and they only give attention to the people that Look good, etc... For most, intuition is completely out of reach, and their minds can't handle in-depth conversation or abstract ideas...like the Enneagram! I know that when I tried to give the MBTI to some of my sensing peers, they just "didn't get it," in the words of one of them. But, the intuitive people that took the test thought carefully about each question, and were enthusiastic to know more about their types. Sensors usually are not interested in the inner world of fantasy and ideas like intuitives are, they are interested in reality and logic, and material items that they can see and touch. For most, fashion and trends rule their lives, and they care more about Dawson's Creek than learning about themselves and Why they were put in this awful world to begin with.
: So, if you can't tell, I feel like an outcast, like I'm the Only one in school looking In, instead of Being in the here and now.
: Actually, I do have some experiences that I value from high school. I'm in choir...this is my fourth year with the same people, the same teacher, the same room and environment everyday. It is the One place where I feel like I belong, and it is a wonderful release to just sing, and make beautiful music with like-minded people, and escape the fiery, sensor-littered, confining halls of high school. I think it helps tremendously to be able to have at least One place in school that feels as if you've 'Come Home.'
: Alas, this is my last year, I graduate in 2000, and I sometimes find myself worrying that I won't survive in College and the 'Real World', that is plagued with sensors, just like high school. I know we need these people; they keep order and press logic into life, but I just can't find it in me to Like the damn suckers!
: -Emily, the Hopeless Intuitive
Hello Emily,
Just keep in mind that it's the sensors who are covering our backs when we turn inward. They do have a place in the world, albeit a small one. :)
Ev