> I always feel awkward when I reach out to people, as though I’m bothering them somehow, so I tend to avoid doing so. Sometime around 30 it hit me like a swin

> I always feel awkward when I reach out to people, as though I’m bothering them somehow, so I tend to avoid doing so. Sometime around 30 it hit me like a swinging log to my introverted face that the reason I felt that way was because that's how I felt when people reached out to me. It really shook my perspective to realize that many people like having someone reaching out to them and they are not annoyed by it.