When I was young, I had trouble looking people in the eyes, but I made myself do it. After a while, it came naturally. Now I look at everyone straight on from gas station cashiers I meet once to people I work with everyday. I think it's really important to be able to do this. I really notice it when someone can't look at me and it makes me apprehensive about them when they don't.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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