One of the first things people usually notice about me is how quiet I am. They wonder how anyone can be as non-talkitive as I am. I think they find something rather uncanny about my reserve and become curious as to why I am this way. I know this because I've been asked why am I so quiet a countless number of times. When asked this question I always felt embarrassed and dumb for some reason and I also felt this was a silly question. I mean how do you answer a question like that? do i reply with an answer like I witnessed my parents being eaten alive by a pack of wolves and I've been mum ever since. I realize, though, that it's a natural question to ask so I'll attempt to answer it.

I have always been of a quiet nature ever since I was a toddler, for the most part anyway. At the beginning of elementary I began to identify myself myself as quiet. I saw this as my little niche in the order of nature I had begun to observe. So at first I didn't have a problem with being quiet because I accepted it as what I was. As I got older, however, I began to realize that it wasn't very healty for me to be this way. At this point I developed a slpit personality. I'm only kidding, but this helps to explain how my mind began to function. I had created an image of myself with ideal characteristics that I felt I truly possessed, but just didn't show much. i believed that this was the real me and that I was trapped inside this other person. I felt like Charlie from Flowers for Algernon. the quiet me was like Charlie before and the real me would be a little like Charlie after the operation. I use to think that my life was a big dream and one day the real me would wake up. I grew frustrated because I came to view the quiet me as sort of like a prison that the real me was trapped inside of and I wanted very much to get out. Now my persons have learned to co-exist and seem, for the most part, to compliment each other.