聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 聽 Facebook is useful for a few different things, like keeping in touch with people, but it has this annoying aspect as well: people tag you to do different challenges. Usually I ignore most, but I was sent one the other day to share seven things about myself people may not necessarily know.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 I again considered not doing the challenge, but it was a good friend that nominated me. So, before completing my seven things, I texted to see if I could get out of it; but, seeing as she鈥檚 a friend and said she would like me to participate, I gave in.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 It took me awhile to come up with things, but once I got going things flowed. I talked about how if I consider someone a friend I would pretty much do anything for them and about my ability to sound out the Cyrillic alphabet. I wouldn鈥檛 go so far as saying I can read it because they鈥檙e just sounds to me for the most part unless I can figure out what they mean by it sounding like an English word, however, this can be wrong sometimes.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 I mostly stayed away from things about myself that were too personal, because I like to keep to myself. It is possibly very odd then that I have a weekly column of opinions, which I greatly appreciate you all taking the time to read them, even those of you who don鈥檛 agree with me that鈥檚 the beauty of living in Canada. We all have our own opinions and they鈥檙e all respected.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 Anyways, I digress.聽 The one statement I made about myself, which was the only one kind of personal was that I hate the process of making friends. As I wrote it out, I thought about it and almost deleted the comment, but decided to be honest.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 It may sound odd to many of you, but I truly do hate the process of making friends. I like being friendly. I smile at people, hold the door for them if I see them coming, and chat with people if they come up to talk to me. But the actual process of making friends I find very awkward. I dislike talking about myself and usually sit there quietly listening, flying under the radar. Obviously I have things to say or else I wouldn鈥檛 be able to fill this column each week, but when actually conversing with people I鈥檇 rather just sit and listen to them.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 The actual process of getting to know people and finding friends I therefore feel is awkward. It was actually eye-opening to me after I posted my seven things about myself, that others were in agreement. One person even commented, 鈥淚t鈥檚 so awkward. Was much easier being forced into friendship in Kindergarten!鈥�
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 This was someone I always thought was rather outgoing and made friends quite easily. I never really thought she or some others who commented would view making friends in this way, as being awkward.
聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽 It鈥檚 amazing what you can learn from people if you do share with people. But, I still would rather sit and listen to someone else than be the one talking. It might come from my love of learning, whether it be from a book or someone talking about themselves, learning is something I put high importance on because as someone once said 鈥渨hen you鈥檙e finished learning, you鈥檙e finished.鈥�
