If for every 'I thought you were gentle' I've been told, I was given a dollar, I'll definitely be holding an award for people that became a millionaire in their teens. I remember when I was in secondary school, when I started getting comfortable with groups of people outside my family, we would talk about literally everything and anything the whole day and we wouldn't get bored. Guess who was always the initiator of most conversations? The one everybody thought was gentle.
You see, as friends, we always had many areas of interests. As classmates or schoolmates, we had experiences that were usually fun to relive. As agemates, our interests were very similar. And so, it was very easy for us to bond through conversations and topics that mattered to us. The same thing happened in the university.
When I entered, and began to know people closely, I found out that there were always so many things I revolved around, and related to. This, most of the times gave me so many things to talk about and vibe with. I have a chatty personality so, even when I am not the life of the party, I will definitely be the life of the conversations.
According to what I've been told countless times, my first impression is usually that of a very personal person, the only people she allows around her, are herself and herself. I am not a reserved person and I let people know that. When they get close to me, they'll tell me that before we became close friends, they always saw me as a reserved person. How do I explain to them that I too, see myself as a reserved person in my pictures?
You know that saying, don't judge a book by its cover? If the saying was a person, I know it'll be me. The thing is, I find it very hard to be free around people I'm just getting to knowing. I shy a lot when it comes to making first interactions because the fear of embarrassing myself is usually so present. And that makes me very cautious when I'm faced with one. As a result, my responses are usually one or two sentences at most.
In my first year in the university, there was this friend I made and we were alike in so many things. She told me that her first impression of me, was that I was a very calm person and most times, when she sees me, doing alone things, she tries to figure out that it's the same person she knows and befriends, that's that.
I've heard all this and all I can say, is you should believe me when I say I'm reserved. I just have a whole sack of yaps and chattiness hidden successfully under my lips.
This is my entry to the Hive-Ghana prompt for the week
Images are mine
