As I was growing up I remember always being the quiet, shy person. When I was in elementary my teachers would say, “Why are you so quiet and shy.” I don’t know why, but I wouldn’t respond to them because I was probably too scared and of course shy around people. Whenever I received my report card from my teachers I would always look in the comment section. On that space it was written “Participate more in class, stop being shy, and speak up.” I would see this on every single report card that I get. My parents also noticed that and they would always try and lecture me about it. Especially my dad, he would tell me to try my best, stop being shy, and speak up. If you don’t then you are not going to get what you want in life because no one would know if you need help or not. I took that into consideration because if I’m too quiet and shy, no one would know if I need any help.
Everyone that knew me would also say the same thing. They would say that I’m too quiet and shy. I was getting tired of hearing the same thing over and over again from different people. I probably heard that more then a million time or so now. Even though I hear that a lot and want to stop being that way, but I just can’t because I was born with that trait of being quiet and shy. The friends that I knew and went to school with back in elementary was kind of like me, but I notice that now, they are very different from before and changed a lot.
Throughout elementary and middle school, I continued being shy and quiet, I don’t know why. People would recognize me as the girl that’s quiet and shy. They labeled me as that. I didn’t really care because that’s the way that I am. I can’t just wake up one morning and say, “ Oh I am going to stop being shy and quite.” it takes time and I can’t do anything about it. Its in my genes. I just let them recognize me as that person because that’s who I am.
Whenever I am around my cousins, aunts, and uncles they would say the same thing. I remember always hearing that I am like my daddy from my aunts. They said that I got my personality from my dad because he is also the type that’s quiet and sometimes shy. Unlike my mom, who always has something to say on everything that happens and who is very loud. She likes to yell and raise her voice. It seems like that or she was just the type that has a loud voice. They would say that they like who I am and the way I am because I ’m not all wild or acting crazy. My aunt would give me a lecture when I see her about being too shy or quiet and not responding to someone when they’re talking to you. I do respond, but I have a low soft voice, that’s what I think, but people seem to say that I am ignoring them. My aunt would say, “ People don’t like it when you don’t respond and they going to think that you’re all that, can’t even speak to them.” Although I am quiet and shy I have a soft low voice and people just don’t hear me when I speak to them, but I’m not ignoring anyone. I want to say something back to her but I know that if I do then she is going to understand me, but still get upset about it. She seem to think that I don’t like her and always trying to ignore her.
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