Everyone that I know sings often or somewhat often. Everyone. Some more often than others.
I don't though.
Very rarely do I get the urge to sing, or do actually sing. Maybe once a month or less. People seem to do it much more often than I do.
Thoughts on this? Think it could relate to CT [ie suppressed function(s)]? Anyone else not sing?
I should note that I don't think singing is unnatural or anything, and I do think it is a normal way of self expression. I think it's fine. I do find it annoying when people sing most of the time, although other times I just don't really care. I mostly find it annoying when people do it for a long time, or when I'm talking to them and they start singing because that to me shows that they're not giving me their attention. The thing is though, even with the belief stated in the latter part of the last sentence, I don't think that would prevent me from getting urges to sing/sing by myself. I've wondered about this for a while now, and I'm curious to see what other people think about it.
I used to sing a lot as child but I was very self-conscious about it so I never really sang overtly in presence of others, including when I was a teenager. Then, for some reason, I stopped and no longer get the urge to sing and if so, it's alone with very specific songs that are really catchy and that I can't get out of my mind ^^.
It's probably due to habits and lifestyle as well as overall happyness. Children and teenagers sing much more because they're more carefree and have more energy, it's like playing and jumping/running everywhere. If we don't cultivate that carefreeness in us, most adults loose it and don't care about singing anymore.
Last Edit: Jun 20, 2013 4:43:03 GMT -5 by peppergirl
I stopped getting urges to sing when I was about 13... I think that's probably when my happiness was declining as well. Makes sense. Even now though, I'm a more happy person and I don't want to sing, and I'm pretty young.
If I were to try to relate this to CT, I'd say that introverts are less likely to want to sing because they don't desire to engage with the external environment as much as extroverts do. I do think that happiness and urge to sing are correlated, and going to CT I have a hypothesis: My Fi developed to be unseelie, thereby making me not want to sing. Now that I feel happier as a person (although it's more in my state of mind, not so much emotionally) it's because of Si. The worldview my Si has is more positive, and since I have Si>Fi, I experience my positive worldview more than my negative emotions. This would have an end result of feeling (somewhat) happy, while not having urges to sing or do other things that more "happy" people do.
Post by peppergirl on Jun 21, 2013 22:35:53 GMT -5
If you mean extroverts in the classic mainstream sense, I agree they're more prone to burst into singing. I'm most likely Ne-dom and I'm a classic introvert, I rarely sing and I'm boring as f***. I also hate dancing. Hence my surprise when I was told I was NeFi, but in terms of CT, I definitely use more mind exploration than judging, I even wish I was more consistent and commited in my lifestyle and opinions.
Furthermore, many artists are Fi-leads (Michael Jackson, Mylène Farmer, 50 Cent, etc), so "introverts" technically speaking. I'll add modern societies don't encourage singing in our daily lives, we expect singing only from "specialized" individuals (singers) to do the job and we listen to them. In ancient societies (and current traditional societies), people regularly sang for different reasons (celebrations, shamanic rituals, to help them work, etc), it was more natural to them to often sing and everyone did sing.
In my opinion, it has something to do with our background, habits and state of mind.
Last Edit: Jun 21, 2013 22:38:59 GMT -5 by peppergirl
Well, i'm always singing. At home, when i walk to the streets, i almost never stop to sing. I don't know if this is correlated to the fact that i play some instruments.
In my opinion, it has something to do with our background, habits and state of mind.
Doctor: Heron, you've some serious mental diseases, you need to be recovered immediately. Heron: Oh... can i see my childrens for the last time? Doctor: ...You don't have sons. Heron: What are sons? Is something i can eat?