In 7th grade, I decided I had to get over the shyness and ask a girl to dance. But I felt such fear of rejection. Then it dawned on me that it would be REALLY funny if I, one of the 3 tallest guys there, asked the shortest girl there to dance. Not as a way of being mean, but because it would be less awkward if we could approach it with a kind of irony.
She said yes, and everyone who saw us had a bit of a chuckle. But then others started doing it for real, because if we could do it, why couldn't they?
That summer I moved to a different part of town and I hardly saw any of them again.
In 7th grade, I decided I had to get over the shyness and ask a girl to dance. But I felt such fear of rejection. Then it dawned on me that it would be REALLY funny if I, one of the 3 tallest guys there, asked the shortest girl there to dance. Not as a way of being mean, but because it would be less awkward if we could approach it with a kind of irony.
She said yes, and everyone who saw us had a bit of a chuckle. But then others started doing it for real, because if we could do it, why couldn't they? That summer I moved to a different part of town and I hardly saw any of them again.