It's ok if you are shy

Among the differences in people I see every day, even more universal than all physical characteristics (skin color color, age, hair, style of clothes, etc), is this continuum of people who are overly talkative vs people who don't say much vocally (not to say they don't speak in a more unique form...non-verbally, in writing, an art form...or they process info longer and way way way more deeply by a gift of nature in how they were made in this world).

Shy people I reckon think a lot when they are not speaking. They are fully engaged. They are there for you when you are and they are sad when people mistaken them for not being fully engaged, because they are many a times the utmost engaged of all the bunch!!! They just don't think as much out loud...so what?

In their heads they write novels, they have thoughts that can pour out in visual depictions, all sorts of colors, and they are recording everything you say, they are listening, they are observing, they even draw into themselves a whole array of personal connections tangent on what is said and if only others knew this they would be torn between having a ton to say back! Or just seeing a whole new ray of light in that shy friend who is always there.

if you could take a wire and decrypt everything that is stored in their longterm memory, it would be more information and depth than can be said in spoken words.

Despite this, even a well intentioned but poor attempt to complete a shy person's thoughts bottled up inside, can make that shy person smile...it is because this person just because shy by nature, doesn't mean disinterest in the least! And because we are so used to the feedback we get about ourselves from the rest of the world? If you try to be different and reach out to that shy individual just an inch beyond the norm, that could just mean the world to that shy person.

How do we make the world more conscious of that some people are shyer than others? Sometimes we should write, sing, paint, or just share time with said person being your whole self. Or just have shy people tag along with the rest of the non-shy people and make them an equal in every way. Being shy is ok....in fact it is one of the most mysterious and loved human traits on earth.