I always thought of myself as a social person.
That is, until I started college & was forced out of my comfortable PCS/MHS bubble to make new friends & put myself in social situations I'm not familiar with.
Somewhere along the line, I kicked my extroverted self out the door & kicked up the "shy" notch a few levels. I'm not sure why this happened, or when exactly it happened; but it happened.
And this (somewhat new) introverted self has a really hard time coming to Nashville & meeting all of the new people in my family's life -- all of whom know me, even though I don't know them.
Tonight we had a group of my family's friends come over for dinner.
(an activity that at first made me want to curl up in my introverted ball)
But, after meeting over appetizers & spending an evening finding out that these new friends in my family's life can, in fact, be my new friends as well; I loosened up and regained that extroverted Meghan I really only know in groups of people I'm close to.
(maybe I'm already making more progress in this new year than I expected....)
That is, until I started college & was forced out of my comfortable PCS/MHS bubble to make new friends & put myself in social situations I'm not familiar with.
Somewhere along the line, I kicked my extroverted self out the door & kicked up the "shy" notch a few levels. I'm not sure why this happened, or when exactly it happened; but it happened.
And this (somewhat new) introverted self has a really hard time coming to Nashville & meeting all of the new people in my family's life -- all of whom know me, even though I don't know them.
Tonight we had a group of my family's friends come over for dinner.
(an activity that at first made me want to curl up in my introverted ball)
But, after meeting over appetizers & spending an evening finding out that these new friends in my family's life can, in fact, be my new friends as well; I loosened up and regained that extroverted Meghan I really only know in groups of people I'm close to.
(maybe I'm already making more progress in this new year than I expected....)
2 comments:
I've known all these people longer than your parents. Wonder why WE weren't invited?
I guess it's all about Hunter. Hunter this, Hunter that. I'm sick of it.
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