Sam Alexandra Rose

Tag: quiet

  • the socially awkward cycle

    I think I feel self-conscious because I’m quiet. It’s not that I’m quiet because I’m anxious – my quietness is making me anxious. I am socially awkward because I am socially awkward. My very nature is doing this to me. What a riveting cycle.

    I worry that when I’m quiet people will think I am boring and won’t want to hang around with me anymore. I don’t have any past experience to base this on except for one thing someone said about me and a friend parroted back to me when we were about seventeen. Yet it still makes me paranoid. So, that’s my personal discovery for the day, what was yours? Hopefully something a bit nicer.

  • weight

    why
    is silence made so heavy?
    something
    so quiet should be
                   weightless
    and
    not a burden
                   frowned upon by the
    masses.
    there
    is a constant
                                   pressure
    to
    change. 

    I
    just can’t.
                                   and I’m not
    sorry.

    You could tell me being quiet isn’t a bad thing, but years and years and a whole childhood of being told otherwise means I’d never believe you.

  • My article on Quiet Revolution

    I had an article published on Quiet Revolution! It is:

    An open letter to everyone who has ever made me feel like there is something wrong with me—unintentionally or otherwise.

    Read it here:

    http://www.quietrev.com/portraits/sam-rose/

    Hope it is relatable – I’ve had some really nice comments on it already, which is awesome!

  • Straightening out 10 assumptions* people make about me because I’m quiet, none of which are true

    I’m not shy

    I don’t have low confidence

    I don’t prefer quiet environments

    I am usually quite happy and cheerful

    I don’t dislike you (probably)

    I’m not bored (probably)

    I’m not mysterious or thinking deep thoughts

    I don’t need you to speak up for me or talk to other people for me

    I don’t need you to help me to be louder or to invite me to talk

    Calling me quiet like it’s a bad thing (or doing any of these) does make me want to hit you

    *emphasis on the ASS

    Add your own to this list in the comments!

  • Silence

    Every silence is diagnosed,
    assessed for awkwardness.
    Why can’t quiet be peace?