Cat’s Whiskers

I have always been socially awkward, I don’t know how to make small talk, I honestly envy people that do but small talk is not for me, I am not one to talk about other people, I do not care for that. So I have always suffered from social anxiety, I used to be afraid of talking to people I had known my whole life but had never been close to, so I would never greet my neighbours whenever I would pass them by on the street. At school I would walk by my school mates and pretend to ignore them, not talk, not say hello, nothing. I was regarded as rude, arrogant, too important to speak to others 😟. NOT TRUE!

I got a job at a retail business where I had to overcome that anxiety and talk o customers and that’s how I overcame my social anxiety, when you are in a customer facing job there is no room for social anxiety and introverted personality so you have to assume this extroverted persona. But still nowadays I am still an introvert fighting social anxiety everyday. And I will be an introvert for life and i am okay with that, that is my superpower, small talk is for small minds.