There are a couple of things people always ask me and maybe it's about time I stopped brushing them off and started thinking them through.
1. Everyone wants to feel needed, to feel wanted. Everyone wants to be the one that people talk to first — not the one who has to start the conversation. So I will be that one. I want to be the one that makes other people feel good about themselves — feel important, feel wanted.
2. I too, am human and want the above for myself, but that doesn't mean I'm going to stop doing the same for others — because that would make me just as shallow and unapproachable as the rest of us.
3. Sometimes, people tell me secrets and stories and things they don't want the walls to hear. A lot of the time, people only talk about themselves and blatantly hold up plaque cards that have their stories — written in bold italic underline. Otherwise, they don't actually listen to people speak — they may not be speaking themselves but they aren't listening to you either and if you look close enough, you can see the lack of concern and boredom that begins to show on their once humble expressions. Maybe people tell me things because I want to listen — not because I'm willing to lend them a listening ear per se, but because I offer it before they ask, I prompt when something is amiss, and well that makes people feel loved and cared for. Or at least, that's what makes me feel loved and cared for.
4. I say hi to strangers first and that's how I make new friends. It's not because I particularly enjoy the awkward smiles that return (and in some instances, the ones that don't) but you know what? Why not? Why not take the chance to meet someone new, why not reach out to people instead of wait for everyone to reach out for you? Maybe people wait around too long for things to happen and nothing ever does — I'm tired of that.
5. We should stop asking ourselves "why?" and ask more "why not?"(s)
6. Treating others the way you want to be treated is a very dear friend of mine.
7. I don't usually write posts like this because it sounds cocky and egoistic and I really hate sounding like that.
8. I hate myself already