Tuesday, April 12, 2005

Overcoming Shyness

Verbal communication has never been my strong point. I have always done better expressing myself through writing. So it makes sense that I should get involved in blogging.

In my senior level English class in high school, our first paper was to write about something we had to overcome in life. Obviously, for me it was shyness. After the teacher had read our papers, she decided to share one with the class. Being an outgoing person herself, she was enlightened by the paper on shyness. She couldn't believe that someone would plan out conversations ahead of time. She never had any trouble striking up conversations with people. As she continued to share my utmost secrets to the class, I sat there mortified. I stared at the ground and pretended that she wasn't talking about me.

I received the highest grade in the class with the expectation from my teacher that my papers would only get better. I think I may have disappointed her, but hopefully I won't disappoint my readers.

3 comments:

f o r r e s t said...

AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN,
welcome aboard!!!
I hope to read more if you post as much as your husband.

Anonymous said...

Golden,
way cool to "hear" from you! Can't relate to good grades on my English papers....content was always excellent(TEE HEE) but spelling and grammar always brought me down. I like to write, and I've found that spelling can improve, grammar---not as easy for me. Oh well, at least your teacher didn't make YOU read your paper out loud to the class!

f o r r e s t said...

Shyness is nice, and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You'd like to

Shyness is nice, and
Shyness can stop you
From doing all the things in life
You'd like to


So, if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
ASK ME - I WON'T SAY "NO" - HOW COULD I ?


Coyness is nice, and
Coyness can stop you
From saying all the things in
Life you'd like to


So, if there's something you'd like to try
If there's something you'd like to try
ASK ME - I WON'T SAY "NO" - HOW COULD I ?

Spending warm Summer days indoors
Writing frightening verse
To a buck-toothed girl in Luxembourg


ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME
ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME


Because if it's not Love
Then it's the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb
That will bring us together


Nature is a language - can't you read ?
Nature is a language - can't you read ?


SO ... ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME
ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME


Because if it's not Love
Then it's the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb, the Bomb
That will bring us together


If it's not Love
Then it's the Bomb
Then it's the Bomb
That will bring us together


SO ... ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME
ASK ME, ASK ME, ASK ME
Oh, la ...

-the smiths