#ne function

So you’re in the middle of the woods and got a compass with you (yeah, the magnetic one) showing you where you want to go. What do you do? Obviously. Going down the road or not, crossing the freaking jungly woods, swimming across the lake, jumping rock to rock, counting clouds I don’t know whatever you feel like because you’re living your adventure, your compass is showing you the direction so you can enjoy the ride however you feel like it.

Along that road you find some signs: color marks of different man-made paths so you won’t get lost, warning sings because that’s a lake full of alligators, symbols of different people, hidden messages, arrows pointing at the huge most beautiful waterfall ever...Each one of those signs mean something and creates a certain reaction out of you, right? But you got your compass with you, so you know what to pay more attention to and use this signs as only that: “Okay yeah I read the warning that this floor will collapse as soon as I step on it, will find another way got it”, “oh well I can do jujitsu to alligators, I got a phd on it so there’s no problem into swimming between them” and you move on.

There are windy days, hella hot horrendous dehydration days, floods, huge storms, predators, weird noises and creatures, venomous plants. There are days where everything seems to be against you, yet you got your compass with you so you still know where you are and where you want to go. You know you can still move on. So you push further even in the most extreme conditions.

Now you wake up one beautiful morning, sun still coming up, take a look at your compass and is endlessly circling. Hitting, punching, shaking, screaming, cursing...nothing works, it keeps circling. Fuck you don’t know how to point north or south. Fuck you don’t know how to read constellations and that’s at night where everything’s more dangerous. Fuck I only had my compass. Now what? Now even though you may lie to yourself saying that everything’s okay, reality is that everything has changed because you won’t face those woods like any other day. Those woods are different.

You decide to pay more attention to those signs and warnings you never give too much importance cause...the compass. Problem is, which signs and warnings should you pay attention to? Where are you suppose to go? On your left there’s this wonderful vill but it looks familiar so it’s not the best option, on here you got a warning sign about a volcano and on your right there are some animal drawing you don’t seem to know very well but it looks kind of dangerous. Fuck, where am I suppose to go? Which one is more dangerous? But what if I have to go to the other one? How really of a warning are those signs? You start paying attention to things and start to wonder about stuff you normally never stop into digging. And suddenly are more aware about unpleasant stuff that makes you feel in danger, out of control, confused, responsible, scared and so on. The woods become darker and darker by the minute, like everything’s changing to the point that you no longer are able to recognize it anymore nor yourself. You’re starting to lose yourself inside that forrest because there were things you were oblivious outside and inside you that now take too much presence and your only guide keeps malfunctioning. 

A once beautiful, wild, free jungle now has turned into a dark horror leafy maze. 

INTP sister: wha- no, it's a bridge

ENTP: then why can Thor use it with his Stormbreaker like that guy before with his blade?

INTP: Heimdal? He's just the guardian. He is not the only one who can activate it.

ENTP: but he used his blade to. like a machine

INTP: it's a bridge!!! the rainbow bridge!!

ENTP: are you talking about the bridge they use to reach it? that's not the bifröst

INTP: it's part of it

ENTP: I don't see it when Heimdal or Thor use it out of Asgard

INTP: *sighs* it's methaphorical. from where did Loki fall then.

ENTP: he fell into a wormhole.

INTP: from where?

ENFP dad: like Black Panter's foot fell in the train rails in Wakanda and it disappeared?

ENTP: that was because the rails are magnetized and Black Panter's suit is made of vibranium so the energy disintegrated it.

INTP: ...

ENFP dad: so, it's not the same.

INTP: *thinking* uhmmmm- *thinking more* uhmm no.

Ne-Si: thinks of all the possibilities but doesn’t stick to one, then singles out the ones that actually work because it’s too scared that the other possibilities will kill them; ultimately dies from something else eventually killing them

Someone: *expresses an opinion that is ignorant and illogical*

INTP: Oh ffs here we go.

Ti: That person is being ignorant and illogical. We have to correct them.

Ne: Yeah they're so narrow-minded. We have to make them see things from a different perspective.

Si: Yeah and they're just factually WRONG about this one thing as this handy Wikipedia article proves.

Fe: BUT WE'RE GOING TO LOOK LIKE A DICK IF WE ARGUE WITH THEM ESPECIALLY SINCE EVERYONE LIKES THIS PERSON AND ESPECIALLY SINCE LIKE OUR OPINION ON THIS PARTICULAR SUBJECT ISN'T EXACTLY NORMAL LOL

Ti: But

Ne: They're

Si: Wrong?

Fe: DO YOU GUYS WANT US TO LOOK LIKE A DICK

Ti + Ne + Si: ...no?

Someone: Sorry you looked like you were going to say something, INTP?

I was originally just going to post separate posts about how I see the functions. But I got lazy and thought it would take too long. So I’m going to do a summary of the functions in two posts instead. Clearly, I’m starting with the functions I am more aware of: Ti, Ne, Si, and Fe. I’m going to get the gist of them, at least. So here goes.

(Oh, and as a side note: I do not feel like stereotyping Si into a function about memory and tradition. I think that’s ludicrous. If you believe I’m wrong, you can always correct me.)

Ti: We as individuals are the proof that the world is almost inconceivable and unreliable. We can only perceive and not judge. So we might as well come up with the solutions ourselves. I won’t force you to do anything, but I expect nothing but the best from you. It’s okay to be wrong, though, as facts can get pretty twisted. So not every single fact matters; only the ones that are important to you. But remember, I have my logic and you have yours. Don’t you dare tell me my logic is somehow wrong. Prove your inner logic and why your logic makes sense, and I won’t have to fight you.

Ne: The many different ideas and patterns out there are proof that the world is a very weird place. Anything can happen. Every idea counts and matters. I won’t turn your perspective down because who knows? You could be right. Hey, if we put our heads together, it might develop into something completely new and undiscovered. I don’t care how weird the idea might get; it doesn’t matter. What matters is that it could happen. I would break down if you prove my ideas won’t work or that they make no sense. But if you can’t prove it and you still try to tell me that it won’t work or make sense, I just might punch you out. *shrugs* Anything could happen.

Si: We as individuals are the proof that the world’s details don’t matter. We are merely perceivers. What matters is what you find important and how you can apply it to make sense of the world. Believing every detail matters makes you lose sight of what’s important. If a dog peed on my leg, should I care that it smells like ammonia? Or should I try to remember how to get pee scent out of my pants? I overlook certain details in exchange for anything that I consider important. What’s important to you isn’t important to me, and I’m cool with that. Unless you want to cross me by forcing me to care about nonsense? Prove why you think you’re practical and you might just find a friend in me.

INTP finds a button in the middle of nowhere.

INTP: Hmm, I wonder what this button does? Why is it even here?

INTP: *looks around to see if anyone else is watching her but they don’t care* Hmm, I feel like touching it, but what if something bad happens? Well, they always say, “Don’t ever be afraid to make mistakes...”

INTP: *reluctantly touches button, nothing happens*

INTP: *presses the button four more times, still nothing* What the actual freak, man? Why is there a random button in the middle of nowhere that’s fricking defunct? *leaves, annoyed*

*later that day, INTP watches the news*

News reporter: Earlier today, there seems to have been five random bombings across the world and no one can find what caused them.

INTP: *rapidly thinks out loud* God, I hope that wasn’t the button. Why did I press it? Do I have to go to their funerals? Ew, that’s, like, millions of people. But I have to pay my respects. It’d be rude if I don’t. Wait, what am I saying? I KILLED THEIR FAMILIES! I can’t just pop up and say, “Hey, sorry for your loss but I killed your husband.” But, wait, they don’t know I killed them, so should I go and just not confess? I don’t wanna be a liar. Oh, God, but there’s still too many people!! And too many funerals on too many dates! Should I even go? Why should I? That’s it, I need a nap! No stress, no mess. I’m out.

We all know Ni users try to predict the future. A lot of the time they’re right. They’re like gods when it comes to this. But what about the Ne users like me? Ni users may be fortune tellers but… I’ve been calling myself a jinx since I was in elementary. (Maybe it’s just me, though, and I’m really weird.) Things just pop in my head and I end up seeing this stuff outside my head at some point in the near future.

Sometimes it’s the very near future: my family and I were watching Titanic one Saturday night. I asked my mother, rather bluntly, if Gloria Stuart was dead yet. I asked this question on the night of September 25, 2010. Gloria Stuart died the Sunday afternoon of September 26, 2010. So she died in less than 24 hours after I asked that question. I felt bad about it but laughed at the same time (please, I’m not evil; I couldn’t help it, I still gave her my respect).

And sometimes it takes a couple days to a couple weeks: back in (probably, again) 10th grade, I had no idea what the heck serendipity meant. But this word repeated back and forth over the course of two weeks. Then I looked up the word and it had something to do with luck. I’m looking up the word again and it says, “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way”. And boy, was I happy and lucky when I opened up the TV guide and found the movie Serendipity on one of the movie channels that day (probably on HBO or Showtime). Never watched or even heard of the movie (still haven’t watched it). And I barely watched the movie channels to know it was even on the guide.

I had an upcoming post about Si and how I can’t see Ne as being the sole reason for imagination. (I had written it a while ago.) I believe that Ne aids imagination, but Ne shouldn’t be even slightly close to detailing every bit of the world inside your head. I had thought Ne was for gathering ideas and making out patterns, not solely for building imagination. And if Si is used to imagine memories, then why not an imaginary world?

I hate how the functions are treated in such a way that it allows for very little creativity in describing them. If it goes against the status quo, it’s automatically wrong. Yes, people are stereotyped in MBTI, but the functions are stereotyped even more so because people act like these functions have to have the exact same definition for everyone.

I’ve asked a couple blogs about Si and imagination, but I don’t think they’ll get back at me. Which is why I’m not going to post my interpretation on Si until I’m absolutely sure about it. I think I may be wrong about it, though, and that it actually is extroverted intuition. Ne and Ni are future-oriented. But my imagination is something that has nothing to do with the future or “what ifs”; it’s about a world inside my head that I cannot express outwardly unless it was directed in a movie. It’s my main reason for being an aspiring writer.