I've got this online friend named (hmm, his real name is Vladamir but I'd prefer to use the name i know him by) Elwenil(from wow). He's of the INFJ personality type. I'm of the INTJ type and we get on so well. We're both into pvp and we both got into it with the idea of protecting other people within the game (he certainly lives up to his guardian personality type). Even though im INTJ, i had problems earlier on in my own rl that caused me to care about other people a lot more than is typical for my personality so i am equally protective over people. We originally encountered each other at tarren mill and he's alliance and i'm horde so for a good couple of years we were worst enemies. We're both of the sort of player that people talk about us. When he used to turn up at tarren mill we all used to be, "oh f*ck, elwenils here". He'd come flying in like he was the wind of death, his pet (he's a hunter) would solo one rogue while he crowd controlled someone else and killed a 3rd person. In return, i was probably and still am one of the only players he knows that can stand up to him in a fight. Both of us are really good(cba with modesty, it's true), fights between me and him are usually decided on the smallest of small mistakes. Then i tried alliance, spoke to him once and now he's probably one of my best friends full stop. Together in a battleground we're usually enough to turn games around. In the smaller battlegrounds, like 10v10, we probably have like a 90% win rate ( which is insane). We've done double dps arena ( which is a lot more skillful than dps/ healer) and we've beaten some amazingly well geared and experienced teams, all without comms at all because we're so in tune with each other.
The only problem ive got with him is that he's uses his intuitions to slowly brick himself off from the world. And then once he's made a decision he refuses to ever reconsider the evidence. It's just so sad and fraustrating that i can't do anything for him. I consider how enriched my life has been through retrying things and always taking in new evidence and it just makes me feel really bad for him that once he's made a decision he can never really sit back and take a fresh look at something. He's always relying on that one decision he made ages ago as a reason to not try something again. I'd have been such a sad little panda if i'd never reconsidered everything over and over and over again. With my attitude i'll always eventually like everything, the world is always open to me, with his attitude his world closes in on him with every negative that ever pops up. It's sad because as an F rather than the T that i am I feel he has the ability to enjoy the world so much more than I ever could. The actual result is that he's really unhappy all the time and he gets worse as time goes by and i'm the opposite, as time goes by i get happier and happier because i continually reconsider everything so i see more and more good in the world as i get older.
I really wish i could give him the gift of seeing the world the way i do but he's so hard to get through to. Sadly reminds me of someone else i know (with the exact same personality type) and it makes me feel so bad that i can't get through to her either :/ . Who would have thought that being cold and logical could leave you happier than being warm and emotional? We're so similar in so many ways apart from happiness and i could give that to both of the people i know. Neither of them will truely let me in though. I wish i could go back and have been the first person they knew and trusted, then their first experience would have been of someone that would never let them down and they'd have spent the rest of their lifes playing from a position of strength rather than the way they see it now, feeling that everyone always lets them down eventually so never really giving anyone else a chance. Makes me want to cry for them both tbh.
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To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable."
— C.S. Lewis