Being Shy

Have you ever been known as the shy one or the quiet one? Because same.

I was the girl in school that never raised her hand, class presentations were the end of the world and group work was scary.

Of course if you were my friend at the time, you may see the opposite side to me. I like to talk and have a laugh but in class, I wouldn't dare talk or draw attention to myself. The only exception was PE (Physical Education). Which may come as a surprise as I'm fully aware a lot of people hated PE in school. For me though, my confidence grew and I didn't care who noticed, I was like a fireball and always took part. Even when I forgot my PE kit. For two years I had this amazing PE teacher who was honestly the best. I was in the bottom set of PE (as I wasn't very active) and yet I didn't let that hold me back. Some of my best memories of school were in PE. I was just a hyperactive teenager that couldn't be stopped and had a lot of confidence. Whether it was netball, hockey, gymnastics, bench ball and one time I swear we even did dance. I only know this because there was a little incident where I was the first one in the sports hall with my friends and thought spinning around in circles was a good idea until I hit the wall and fell. My teacher thought I had a concussion but I was fine and could not stop laughing. Yeah, I'm sure many thought something was wrong with me in those lessons.

Even so that was the only subject in school I had a bit of confidence to be myself. Yet throughout the rest of my time in school, I was the shy one and didn't want to draw attention to myself.

Being shy though isn't a bad thing. What most people don't realise is that shy people are thinkers. We are probably the biggest overthinking because we're thinking all kinds of scenarios. For me, those scenarios were things going wrong. Like I was worried a teacher would ask me to answer a question and I was afraid of getting the wrong answer then looking stupid so I'd make sure to find the answer so that I wouldn't look stupid. A lot of the time when I'm quiet on the outside, it's an opposite story on the inside as my brain will not shut up.

So yeah, just because someone is shy. Doesn't mean they have a voice. They just might not be comfortable but honestly when you really get to know them and they let you hear their voice, they are really great people.

I'm not entirely sure where I'm going with this post but I just wanted to share my experience of being the shy one. I feel like I have grown in confidence through university and working in customer service which has definitely helped me to find my voice. I think that's why I like blogging too because I'm hiding behind a screen but my words are being heard through this blog. This is my own little space where I can be myself and just talk about things. So yeah don't expect me to start a YouTube channel because I definitely don't have the confidence to do it but I definitely feel confident in blogging my thoughts.

Thank you for reading my post. I would love to hear your thoughts of being shy and if you want to chat, feel free to drop me a comment or email. I would gladly respond.

I'll be back again soon with another post.

See you then.

Megan x 

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