Thursday, March 6, 2008

Bathroom and Human Behaviour

I have spent nearly ten years of my life, staying in hostel as I had to leave my home after my matriculation. In those days I have observed one thing, which I think is an interesting fact about human behaviour.

In Hostels Bathroom Bottleneck is a common problem, where each and every room does not have an attached bathroom. One have to wait for taking a bathe as there is a wide gap between the number of members and the number of bathrooms. So in this type of situations, while waiting for my turn for bathroom entry, I have got ample oppertunity to do some research work on the role of our great(because of there scarcity) bathrooms in showing the behaviour of a person.

I observed while waiting, some persons are spending more time than others. After observing people for this, I started to think the reason for this. As I was taking less amount of time than some of those annoying mortals, this was giving me an etch to find the reason for their love towards a place not very nice place to spend. Then I made a list of those persons in my mind and tried to find the answer by analyzing their behaviour.
Then I found that those, who are taking much time are mostly the kind of persons, not very open in their behaviour. They are somewhat reclusive in nature and while the matter of communication comes they are very reticent. Exactly the opposite was found in case of the other group of persons.
So the conclusion I reached is that : "The persons who are Extroverts by nature, they tend to spend less time in bathroom than their Introvert counterparts."
After analyzing this for some more time, I got some answer which I think is logical to some extent.
As Introverts avoid public attention and prefer solitude, what can be a better solitary environment than a Bathroom. The chance is more increased if a person is not staying alone in his room. As he needs some time alone for him, the next best place he finds is Bathroom and that is why he spends more time there.
Even some of those people give a vent to their suppressed emotion there by either crying, shouting or by making strange gestures or by speaking vulgar words. I have heard some sobbing sounds and sometimes some expletive words from the doors of bathrooms. Even some people have found talking with themselves there. It is not any psychological disorder, but a way to destress the mind.
But Extroverts feel suffocated when they are alone. They always want somebody's company or attention. So they try to avoid all places of solitude, be it Bathroom or any such places.
So friends, if you want to judge a person's behaviour, you can do it by watching his toilet behaviour.

Thank You.
DreamerBoy

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