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I have no trouble with eye contact but smiling at strangers is harder unless they make me feel at ease straight away. I don't make lots of hand gestures I don't think. I'm pretty quiet, which makes it so that often I have to repeat myself because my speech volume can be low if I'm in an unknown situation. I think I'm pleasant company and I warm to people easily. Once I'm comfortable I can talk a lot and am also a good listener. I usually try to remember that other people are in the same situation as me and many times I end up being the one making others feel more comfortable, making silly wisecracks or complimenting people. I'm quiet but friendly.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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