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“I enter most social situations with the calmness of a hunted gazelle” is the realest thing I’ve ever read.
Speaking as a professional leporine, I find the analogy highly relatable.
PAINFULLY REAL
I’m seriously starting to suspect that you actually base Scout on my life.
Wow! yup! So definitely been telling myself “you just gotta be cool, calm and confident” a lot lately, and then reacting to that like Scout does! What is confidence anyway?
This was very good. Thank you!
Last week I thought, for a moment, that I had seen my ex pass me by on a bike. I was mistaken.
Still, derailed for an entire day.
YUP