I’d never
heard of the phrase “being backward” until my aunt mentioned it a few years
ago. She told me that she was surprised
to see that I was not a backward as I was as a child. I looked at her with the strangest look. “Backward?” I said. And she said “you know,
backward: shy, quiet. Backward.”
What a
lovely word to describe an introvert!
For most of
my young life I have tried to get away from what the world sees as being
backward. From my experiences, being shy
and being quiet are definitely viewed as negative traits by the world. I’d always hoped that one day I would just
grow out of my shy and quiet ways, and suddenly emerge as a social butterfly. Seeing as how that has not happened in my
past 21 years of life, I’ve decided it may be time to take a different
approach.
Although turning into an
extrovert overnight would make my life easier in many ways, I am trying to
learn to accept and appreciate my quiet self. And that's what my blog is about. So feel free to come and be
backward with meJ
