I never noticed (oh, a little shyness maybe, but nothing major). Does that mean you weren't as bad as you thought, or that I was an insensitive clod?
It took me a long time to realize that the reason I'm not scared to do temp work (new situations and people all the time), meet new and famous people, or sing in public -- is because just saying Hello, even to people I know, is such a scary risk, that further degrees of it barely even register. Being confident is probably the most common magical operation in the world: pretend to be confident, and you soon find you are (well, more so).
(But none of this keeps me from saying totally idiotic things to people I want to impress. Like kajiracad says, we all have our Yikes zones.)
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Date: 2005-10-13 07:07 pm (UTC)It took me a long time to realize that the reason I'm not scared to do temp work (new situations and people all the time), meet new and famous people, or sing in public -- is because just saying Hello, even to people I know, is such a scary risk, that further degrees of it barely even register. Being confident is probably the most common magical operation in the world: pretend to be confident, and you soon find you are (well, more so).
(But none of this keeps me from saying totally idiotic things to people I want to impress. Like kajiracad says, we all have our Yikes zones.)