It was a usual day in my 4th semester in my hostel with my hostel mates. It was around 6 to 6:30 PM, and as I was scrolling Instagram, I saw a psychology-based ad: “Find your personality.” I only remember clicking it, and I’m not out of it yet. Yeah, that’s where the MBTI journey started.
I simply took the test on website. It was cool, and finally I got the result: INTJ. Actually, the description and explanation were good, so I asked one of my roommate friends to take it. He got ENFJ.
Then 7:30, it’s dinner time. After returning to the room, I made another roommate take it. He’s ENFP.
Next day, as usual, college. I had given the test link to my closest female friends to take the test. Some even took it. Two got ESFP, one got INFP. Likewise, I don’t know why I was obsessed with that.
That week, when I gave it to all my hostel roommates (8 people), the one thing I noticed is: everyone who got ENFP asked me a question – “Which type is best?” I was like, why only ENFP asked it? Anyway, life was going.
By April 24, I was deep into MBTI. I was learning about other types in detail.
Usually I wake up faster than my roommates, like 5 to 6 AM. Usually I would be scrolling my mobile, but since MBTI, I would go out to the ground for a walk and I would be learning about MBTI, Google searching and YouTube video referrals.
But some of my friends told me this is not necessary, that I should understand a person by talking to them. But that person didn’t know how effective this tool was, because this only boosted my confidence in the future.
I even took the test for like 4 people in my class, and it boosted my confidence.
So I was more obsessed with MBTI. I wanted to access the premium content on mbti. I needed to pay in USD, but my card was a domestic one, so I stopped there.
It was like May month then. Daily I was doing things, college busy.
June came: studies and problems.
But on June 27, when I was watching a video about INTJ, a girl commented, “I’m an INTJ female and I’m proud of it.”
The one great thing is the girl’s display picture in the comment was a picture of space, galaxies. The same pic was my wallpaper during that time. So I was crazy because same type, same liking, same pics – that’s cool.
July month I got the semester holidays. Just 10 days holiday, so I was doing a data science course and I even took MBTI as my sample dashboards. After that 10 days:
August 1, 2022 – some of my roommates vacated, so we were only 5 in the room. It was free, so during that time only I was learning about the cognitive functions.
August 10, 2022 – it was during my lab session. The next person to me was a girl, so I was talking about MBTI and told her to take the test after going home. She’s introverted, and by just talking about basic F vs T, P vs J, I simply told her, “You are an ISTP.”
The following day night, 7:50 PM, she texted me: “Here u go. U were right.”
So after having dinner, I was near the polytechnic hostel building, and I was screaming in joy. A few boys saw me like I’d gone mad.
That girl also told that she is also interested in personality things.
October month, I was searching for friends apps. I found apps like Boo and urMyType, and I was hoping I’d make a friend who is like-minded like me, but it never happened. Nobody replied.
So I even tried Omegle and found people who talk about MBTI, but no one continued it.
That month we had a college trip to Karnataka. After returning from my trip, the next day my grandmother passed away. She had cancer though. After the funerals were over, I even talked about MBTI to my cousins and family. A few encouraged me, a few told me, “Don’t waste your future,”.
Then that month end, one of my female friends told me she’s in love with a person. I told her, “I see, then carry on,” but inside my mind it was hard, because if she goes with that person, I’ll lose her. I don’t love her, I’m her friend only, so I wanted a change.
During that month I was in a course with the ENFJ friend I mentioned earlier, but others were different, so I took the test for all of them. One girl called me are you astrologer?.
Then I texted a person from my high school. She too texted back and she even took the test. She’s INFJ though. She was giving me the small change I expected, so I felt I got a new friend.
Actually, that is the first person who told me the website’s name. I’ll keep this only.
This is the end of 2022.