All growing up, my parents were almost always the last people to leave a party or an event. As many children experience, I often heard the “we’re leaving in five minutes” only to see the parents stand around talking for another hour.
Not sure if it’s a personality thing or because I was raised like this, but I have become the same thing. I very rarely leave an event until there are only a few people left. That is, depending on who it is or what event I’m at. If I don’t know the people as well I might take an earlier departure. Otherwise, how can I miss any of the fun?
I think it’s a similar mindset to what allows me to obsess and work on projects for hours on end. Once I start working on a project and really get into it, it’s extremely hard for me to stop working on it. I’ll stay up all night if necessary to get it done.
In a similar fashion, when I work on these projects, I have to get them done quickly. It can’t take multiple days to complete. I obsess over it initially, but if I don’t get everything done within a short amount of time, or have to sleep in between, I will almost certainly have lost interest by the time I get to it again.
Similarly, while I’m at events and parties I can’t help but continue being there. I have as many conversations as possible and enjoy my time immensely. However, once I’m back home, a lot of that interest is gone and I like just staying at home.
It’s a comfortability in wherever I am at the time. When I’m with people at the party, I want to be there, when I’m at home working on something, I want to be there.
It’s interesting to correlate personality traits both socially and in the working world. How might one thing play into the other? There’s always more to learn about how we act and react around others.