I have a long list of lovely people I know in my contacts list who I would happily chat with right now. Friends, old work colleagues, school and university friends - good people.
I'd love to just send some of them a message to say hi and just find out what's been going on with them. I'm genuinely interested to learn what's happening or to find out what's going with that one thing they mentioned to me when I last spoke with them months ago.
But even though there's nothing stopping me from reaching out, I just can't bring myself to do it unless I feel I have a good enough 'excuse' to do it.
I'm sure they think I'm a perfectly cool guy, but I worry that if they do end up talking to me it's mainly going to be out of politeness, rather than because they really want to. It's really annoying when you have that one person who just doesn't take the hint or pick up that you'd rather be left alone and I think I'm paranoid about being that guy without realising it.
Am I just overthinking things? Are there others out there like me?
I'd love to just send some of them a message to say hi and just find out what's been going on with them. I'm genuinely interested to learn what's happening or to find out what's going with that one thing they mentioned to me when I last spoke with them months ago.
But even though there's nothing stopping me from reaching out, I just can't bring myself to do it unless I feel I have a good enough 'excuse' to do it.
I'm sure they think I'm a perfectly cool guy, but I worry that if they do end up talking to me it's mainly going to be out of politeness, rather than because they really want to. It's really annoying when you have that one person who just doesn't take the hint or pick up that you'd rather be left alone and I think I'm paranoid about being that guy without realising it.
Am I just overthinking things? Are there others out there like me?