be more social
bongy 2 years ago

i want to learn the social language… all this years i’ve gotten through (barely) by talking to people on a very essential level, the level where you can somehow get a job, or buy the groceries, and stuff… but on the social level it always has been for me as folks are speaking a whole different language, more than a “you say potatoe and i say potato” issue, is more like a warmness and relaxation that language achieves when it comes to ourselves, i suppose that’s what keeps me abay, i cannot seem to warm up and relax enough…
i believe to know what the problem is that i’ve got, but after all this time living on the ‘edge’ (not as in danger, but as in on the bounds of society), i really have no much motivation to spare where it comes to act and change attitudes that i’m currently comfortable with, except that i do want to change them… uggg, i don’t get it myself…
meanwhile, my friends take me out (they are such pushovers, i love them) and they don’t expect spatz from me, yet everytime i go i spend the night worrying about talking way too much or way too little (the latter is the forerunner), or wheter i did this or that wrong, or… well, i just worry…
even now, i don’t know how to stop, so i’ll just



Comments:

Hey, it’s good that you’re making the effort to be more sociable. It might help you to focus your attention on what’s going on around you, even little things like what’s unique about what someone is wearing (that could help you feel comfortable striking up a conversation in itself) or just what the weather is like outside or anything but focussing all your attention on how nervous you feel. Perhaps you could notice what people around you do when they’re not talking and mimic their attitude for a while. Remember you’re not solely responsible for the conversation, treat it more casually, and whenever you feel yourself worrying about how you’re coming across just re-focus on something external until it passes. Hope that helps a little. Good luck!


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