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What they don't tell you about being awkward
You’re going to get nervous
talking in front of a group of people.
You’re going to dread talking to new people
and stutter and feel lost when you do.
You’ll wonder,
“Why am I like this”
You’ll overthink the way you walk
and stress over the smallest things.
You’ll stress over even breathing too loud sometimes.
You’ll have so much to say,
but you won’t say what you want.
Why?
You’ll be scared of people rejecting you.
It will take you a long time to feel
like you can be yourself around someone.
You’ll hate yourself after every small mistake,
and not want to talk afterwards.
They’ll tell you that you’re going to grow out of it,
but you’ll know that happen anytime soon.
The words,
“We’re going to go around the class and introduce ourselves,”
will be the most dreaded words in school.
But don’t worry:
Your presentation won’t last forever,
not everyone is going to judge you,
and when the day is over,
it is so much more interesting
to be strange and awkward
than it is to simply not.
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This poem is just about being in your own head too much. It's kind of narcisstic really because people tend to focus so much on what they are messing up on, and I always think that everyone is judging me.