By Yadira Briseno
We often judge someone by their looks and their appearance. Well, that’s the case for me; people get so many assumptions when they first look at me and not the type of assumptions that someone would like.
They say that I often look intimidating or scary. They think that I don’t like them because I don’t talk to them, which is not the case. The reality is that I am really shy.
For me, if I don’t know you, I am not going to talk to you. I do this because I am afraid I am going to say the wrong thing and they’re not going to like me.
Every year for me is a struggle, a struggle of being afraid that I am not going to have classes with my friends, which means that I have to start over and make new friends, which is something that I don’t enjoy.
The few people that had the chance to meet me say that I am actually a really good person. They say that I am the funny one, the one that can make people laugh when they're feeling down.
I try not to focus on what people have to say about me, but this perspective of how people see me has definitely stuck with me over the years. I am the kind of person that if you say something bad about me, it gets stuck in my head for a long time.
One time I remembered a person said that I looked kinda chunky with leggings, so I stopped using them. So now I wear jeans because I feel like they make my figure look better.
I don’t think that person meant it in a bad way, but it’s just my mentality and low self-esteem that makes me overthink things, even things that are not that important.
But every year I try not to overthink it because at the end of the day people's opinion don’t define who I am as a human being.
We often judge someone by their looks and their appearance. Well, that’s the case for me; people get so many assumptions when they first look at me and not the type of assumptions that someone would like.
They say that I often look intimidating or scary. They think that I don’t like them because I don’t talk to them, which is not the case. The reality is that I am really shy.
For me, if I don’t know you, I am not going to talk to you. I do this because I am afraid I am going to say the wrong thing and they’re not going to like me.
Every year for me is a struggle, a struggle of being afraid that I am not going to have classes with my friends, which means that I have to start over and make new friends, which is something that I don’t enjoy.
The few people that had the chance to meet me say that I am actually a really good person. They say that I am the funny one, the one that can make people laugh when they're feeling down.
I try not to focus on what people have to say about me, but this perspective of how people see me has definitely stuck with me over the years. I am the kind of person that if you say something bad about me, it gets stuck in my head for a long time.
One time I remembered a person said that I looked kinda chunky with leggings, so I stopped using them. So now I wear jeans because I feel like they make my figure look better.
I don’t think that person meant it in a bad way, but it’s just my mentality and low self-esteem that makes me overthink things, even things that are not that important.
But every year I try not to overthink it because at the end of the day people's opinion don’t define who I am as a human being.