Being in the external world

[Sacred Fool]

This inevitably leads to higher levels of introversion, it seems to me.

I'm just stating the obvious here, I suppose, but it's been my experience that these things move in cycles within cycles within cycles.  To move through one area of "study" in one's life, X amount of introversion is called for.  Then, for no apparent reason, one enters a time period where one is called upon to offer more outward service.  In some ways, this just adds to the overall confusion.  About all one can do, in one sense, is accustom oneself to being in the flow of change. 

I find this perturbing, being stodgy by nature, but I try to accept it.