At first you may be thinking, "Hey, I love meeting new people. People are great, and I'm a people person, and I can't wait to meet some new friends!" Shortly after, you realize that you're actually perfectly content with not being in a highly extroverted environment (because who said this was actually fun?) where you have to meet new people and check off the list of things such as "where are you from" and "what's your major." Here are the 10 stages you might have encountered when meeting someone new:
1. The awkward approaching and deciding whether you're going to shake hands, hug, or just smile at each other.
2. Next things next: after you've acknowledged the fact that you now have to get to know each other, here comes the questioning.
3. Now you're somewhat invested in this person and you've reached that awkward midpoint in conversation where you start to run out of things to ask or say.
4. So now you just start awkwardly laughing at random things to try and lighten the mood.
5. Hopefully by this point you've both started drinking so you can take some of the pressure off of yourself.
6. Somehow it has resulted in something strange taking place, like some sort of game or activity to try and occupy your time with each other.
7. All the while you're still trying to convince them that you're a cool person...
8. You're just not very good at first impressions.
9. Nevertheless, you are in fact a cool person, and you convince yourself that they just don't understand.
10. You assure yourself that you're done meeting new people because no one gets you.
