If so, then shame on you!
There are people in the world that rush other people through when they are talking to them. You know those people. When you are having a conversation with someone and they either say, "Okay...and then!" Or, they do that little hand wave thing to signal to you that you need to skip to the end of your story because they are done talking to you because you are taking too much of their time. And, perhaps, you are that person. Again, I say...Shame On You!
Who do you think you are? I have dealt with that for so long in my life that it has actually changed my confidence in a very bad way. I am not the most confident person to begin with but, I used to be able to carry on a conversation without stumbling all over my words and making an ass out of myself. But, now because I think that no one really wants to hear what I have to say, I rush through my sentences in my stories and usually bumble words. I start to sweat, my face gets red and I feel that warm flush of embarrassment. At times, I wonder if people think I am drunk all the time because of the way that I stumble all over my words when I am in a group. All because some people don't have the time to be talking to me and have managed to undermine what little confidence I had.
So, from now on...when people do that to me, I will simply end the conversation. No more. Not one more word will leave my lips.
Here is my new rule, which you might call an early New Year's Resolution: If you don't have the time to talk to me, you are wasting MY time!
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