"From the last three lines of your post, I'm assuming you are applying the "better safe than sorry" mentality to life-rights over all of time. This addresses points 3) and 5) of my post on Wed 5/15, but does not address points 1),…"
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Learning to be honest with my friends and myself
Here is a short description of who I was not very long ago:
I was a shy guy who would sit alone in class if I had the choice to do so. I never spoke to my friends unless they asked me something and I would hide my thoughts and feelings because it was the easy way (not) to deal with them.
Now I can say that I'm different. I make friends. I can look at people's faces when I talk to them and I can do a bunch of other normal stuff.
The truth is that even when I was the shy guy, I still made friends and they always told me I needed to change and they tried to help me do so. The problem here is that when I changed, I had just left high school. This meant that I couldn't tell them "thank you" and lately I started to think about it and decided to find them and say just that.
Here is the funny part (or sad), today I called one of my "friends" to tell her I was sorry for not showing how much she and everyone else meant to me. It was easy to say this, but I was truly shocked when the answer was "Why are you telling me this? We never talked much."
Now THAT I was not expecting. Now I really want to start talking to everyone again and show them that I changed.
I don't know if there is any lesson to take from this but if there was it would be something along the lines of: Tell your friends how much you love them.
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