Thought Catalog Agency

16 Things Only Social Butterflies Understand

  1. You feel most alive when surrounded by your loved ones. For you, life is about connection. You firmly believe that loving others is what we were put on earth to do. So when you need to spend time alone, you feel like part of yourself is missing.
  2. Your social battery is pretty much limitless. You’re always down to do pretty much anything. For the people in your life, you’re their go-to person for everything. Saturday morning errands? You’re already on your way. Organizing their room? You’ve already made the Pinterest inspiration board. People-watching at the bar? Sign you up.
  3. If there’s a chance you miss a text or phone call, your friends think you’re dead because it’s totally unusual for you to not reply pretty much immediately.
  4. You have a tendency to ignore your own needs in favor of others. You’re working on it, though!
  5. You’re constantly compared to a golden retriever. This makes sense, honestly. You’re fiercely loyal and always excited to see your best friends.
  6. A weekend without plans is a weekend from hell. No thanks!
  7. You’re the planner in your group of friends. You always take the lead when it comes to weekend plans, vacations, happy hours, brunch dates, obscure poetry readings, trivia night. Whatever sounds like an opportunity to spend time together, you do your best to make sure it happens.
  8. You’re often teased about your inability to be alone. It’s not that you can’t be alone, though. You are just deeply energized by others and prefer company to solitude. You’re a people person through and through and you don’t think this is a bad thing. You just wish people understood that more!
  9. You adore asking questions. To you, nothing is more interesting than another human being. You love asking questions and learning more about other people as a result.
  10. You’re everyone’s most supportive friend on social media. You’re always liking and commenting on everyone’s posts.
  11. You’ve been told that you’re a lot. Some people think you come on a little strong and think you’re too much. But that’s okay; those aren’t your people anyway.
  12. You feel absolutely crushed by canceled plans.
  13. You adore comfortable silence. You don’t need to be constantly talking to the people you hold close in order to connect. Simply being in their presence is more than enough for you.
  14. Hosting is a love language. You find any excuse to host dinner parties, game nights, birthday parties, etc. Beforehand, you spend hours cleaning, preparing the menu, and making sure everyone has their drink of choice. You don’t find hosting to be burdensome at all either. In fact, it’s one of your favorite ways of showing love.
  15. Your FOMO could probably be considered clinical. Oh well.
  16. You always go out of your way to make sure people are comfortable and having a good time. No matter what situation you find yourself in, you are deeply aware of how others are feeling. If you even sense the slightest inkling of social anxiety from someone else, you do your best to help them through it and feel safe. No one will have a bad time on your watch if you can help it!