I don't think you're weird, for truth. :) I've been told that introspection is rare, but I don't know how true that is. But in my own experience, my introspections have not really prepared me for reality. Either I'm very poor at imagining situations and extrapolating based on them, or reality just trumps thought exercises. *chortle*

I admit I was very irritated as a youth when people would tell me, "You won't get it until you go through it." And then I was irritated again as a young adult to discover in every case I can remember, it was true. And now, to my my resigned amusement, I find myself saying it myself: "You won't really understand until you do it." :)

I guess I'm just a big fan of experience...! Comes from living a very sheltered childhood and discovering that the things I hadn't experienced couldn't be prepared-for by reading, researching or thinking...!