"If you find yourself to be one of the people for whom the melancholic emerges from behind their wall of silence, you’ve been gifted with something rare: don’t throw it away. Because of this silence, the melancholic isn’t the most expressive: they might feel something, incredibly deeply, but the likelihood of them bringing it up and expressing it out loud is slim to none. For them, it’s simply enough to feel it. Similarly with creating things, the melancholic has a rich inner world and, if creative, probably creates a lot, but they rarely feel the need to share it. This is different from being too shy to share it, or insecure and lacking confidence: for them, it’s simply enough to be making it in the first place. All of these are examples of how the melancholic person can look relatively uninteresting on the surface, but usually underneath they have a rich world, intense feelings and often hidden interests and talents that you’d only find out after years of knowing them. This is the type of person who wins an Oscar and never mentions it to anyone. It’s not humility, it’s that it’d never occur to them to brag about things like that, and their self-worth isn’t determined by their achievements. Similarly, you can’t compliment a melancholic very often as they’ll start to get suspicious: since it’d never occur to them to determine their self-worth based on these things, too many compliments just ring false."
https://wonderbotanica.com/library/on-e
https://wonderbotanica.com/library/on-e
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