Imagine this: walking into a yard full of students.

What do you think of first? Those students looking back at you with smiles and welcoming words? Or those students looking back at you with deep, judging looks and them turning their backs?

Congrats! If you choose the first answer, you're a normal, outgoing, open person. And well, if you chose the latter, join me: you are officially a wallflower. Grab a spare piece of paper and a pen to jot some notes.

At a young age, you were labeled as "different."

Instead of interacting with the other kids, you would silently sit at a table in the corner of the room and do your own work by yourself. When a teacher comes over and tells you to move your seat with the other students, you listen but you don't try to speak to them. Much different from an introvert, you refused to believe that somebody would ever listen to you or deem you as important to them.

You just silently filled all of your shapes with colors and refused to color outside the lines because you were too scared of being "different," and you refused to be noticed.

At parties, instead of actually joining people on the dance floor, you were one of those who signed up to clean up after the people or one of those who volunteered to decorate the room. When the events took place, you were the one that poured the refreshments and stood behind the pizza stands. You were the one that didn't have a date to the party or the one that took the pictures because you weren't interested in being the "life of the party."

At the dinner table, you avoid conversation that is directly about you. How's school today? How are your grades coming along? You try to listen to your parents, but you are against their beliefs because you believe that people only have one motive in mind: using others to get what they want and using different techniques such as being manipulative in order to exploit others because nobody really has good intentions in mind.

When making friends, you only hang out with other cynical people. Those people who believe in hard-core memes, those people who are cautious about everyone around them, those people who refuse to bind by the social norms. You believe in inclusion, and those who were excluded are those you got along with more because those who hang in groups and spend their lives gossiping are nothing more than a nuisance.

See, you didn't hate humanity, you merely have to tolerate them for your own sake.

Just a few perks of being a wallflower.