Green Oasis

“I think being shy basically means being self-absorbed to the point that it makes it difficult to be around other people. For instance, if I’m hanging out with you, I can’t even tell whether I like you or not because I’m too worried about whether you like me.”—David Foster Wallace

This has been rattling around in my brain, a subject of subconscious meditation, bobbing to the surface of consciousness from time to time. Shyness as a kind of self-absorption.