5 Things I Learned from Listening

I wasn’t always quiet, but now that I am I can’t imagine going back. The silence set in out of necessity: When I first moved to Canada for college in fall 2018, I had no one to talk to. First of all, this was because I had less than zero interest in being in college, so that already wiped out a large chunk of my social pool. Add on a complete lack of understanding of Western culture and you’ve got a recipe for social isolation.