introvert or shyness

In Cambridge Advance Learners Dictionary some words are described as approving some as disapproving.

The word i want to talk about is 'Introvert'. Dictionary meaning of introvert is some one who is shy, quiet and unable to make friend easily.

Firstly, is being introvert is a virtue(approving) or something to be ashamed of(disapproving). A introvert person should consider this as short coming since he is already shy. So a real shy person would never be able to accept his short coming in public on his own.

Can a person saying i am an introvert be really a introvert. If a shy person is not shy of his shyness what else could he be shy of. So saying that i am introvert or shy is a paradoxical statement.

Either these self proclaimed introverts means that they sometimes do enjoy there time alone(which everybody does) or they do take some time to make friends(but that doesn't makes you an introvert at least you are making friends may be not easily) or they just use it as an excuse to hide there inability to understand and justify there own actions(believe me no one always knows what they are doing).

Stop trying to identifying and typecasting yourself. Dream again and again chase them again and again. Lose yourself again find yourself again.