Introverts Love Mountains
In Virginia Woolf's feminist lecture A Room of One's Own , she articulates what seems to be a common truth for most people, introvert, extrovert and ambivert alike: that people need both the physical and mental space to be undisturbed if they are to generate their best creative work. While critics have pointed out that her treatise on the creative needs of literary women was an elitist argument based on her limited experience which failed to consider women who were not "independently wealthy," as she was, she still broke important ground. Woolf's premise focused on access to a private environment conducive to creating works of fiction, but in this brief musing I will expand upon that idea and ask, what about a seemingly more universal need to access a space which simply affords us peace and quiet? What does that space look like? Usually, when people talk about finding peace and quiet, they bring up a pristine concept of nature in which they can finally connect w...