But in the seemingly endless morass of motivational pep talk books without any genuine value, I ended up with these 3 gems of wisdom. So much for “I was a born introvert”.Īs a reader, It was at this stage that I chanced upon self-help books. I’m a very social person and being around people just drives my juices like nothing else. It was an inflection point for me and I’ve never looked back. Many years later, in the final years of high school, I finally seemed to open up and have some meaningful friendships. I always ended up embarrassing myself (or so I thought) and nobody seemed to like me. That’s what I told my mother who would continually pester me to go out and mingle with everyone.ĭeep down, I always yearned to have a group of friends, to talk to, have fun with!īut I never seemed to make it work. As an innocuous shy kid going through school, I never had many friends.
