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Originally Posted by riotgrrrl
Don't underestimate body language. We speak loud and clear without words.. A friend of mine who is intelligent, witty, successful, and very nice, far better a person than I, told me years later that she hated that I made friends easily when we were younger. She said that people would come up to me and want to be my friend. She didn't think back at how she was tho - she would be sitting in a corner of the pub, body language showed she was closed and wary. She is a great friend, but she was more suspicious than I and it took her longer than I to trust people. I was always friendly, open and always smiling in my youth. This is attractive to others, always was, always will be, and nothing about me being a better person.
Envy, being wary, lack of confidence, shyness - all these things we show in our body language.
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i do come out in the open, it's just that there are so many cliques in high school, you know? or at least that's how i perceive it, because one time when i first relocated to this city--i don't even want to talk about it--I joined this huge group of strangers and only a few of them were genuinely friendly. the others just turned on me, like they were asking me to leave and that i didn't belong there. they were asking all sorts of questions, which wasn't always easy to reply to. Like you didn't expect this. So I just made several attempts to stay in the group, but then i left, because they all were so unwelcoming. They're honestly really messed up. I guess they haven't been in my shoes before.