Sean was walking alone in the city park. The wind was blowing like an unbridled prisoner as if being chased by someone. Sean could hear the wind as it passes along his ears. Even though he had his headphone on, he could still hear the noise of the wind. For him, it was playing another music for him. He paused the music on his smartphone and removed the headphone. People were briskly walking past him, some of them busy talking to someone on phone, others busy texting with an eye on the phone screen. Sean saw a bench few feet away, which he took as he was bit tired after walking for an hour. It wasn’t dark but the street lights were now on. On his left, he could see the traffic cruising by. “The chaos on that road was an antithesis of the environment here.. “, Sean was talking to himself.
Sean belonged to INTJ category according to Myers-Briggs type indicator for different psychological types, who are assumed to face life with equanimity. However, no one could see the stormy weather inside him in which he was struggling to stay afloat in the turbulent water.
Sean was the only child of his parents. They had high hope for him right from the childhood. Sometimes parents have greater expectation from their children than they have for themselves. As a result, Sean did everything to make his parents happy. He got Continue reading “Cloistered Souls”