I made a new friend. I mean we’ve been chatting a little hear and there when we have the time since it’s work

But I’m taken aback when they start to ask me about my life and how I feel about things. And they genuinely listen! I don’t feel rushed or like they’re doing it to just be polite! Or like I’m
About to be interrupted, their full attention is on me, they want to hear what I have to say.

I’m used to making friends and them taking my unwillingness to share things about myself as an assumption that I don’t want to share anything. And then just talk about themselves constantly and I just listen.


If I don’t feel like I’ll be genuinely heard, I’m not going to waste my breath. I hate talking and being cut off, or seeing people lose interest. It sucks.