Embrace Your Awkwardness

It’s what brings us together.

Photo by Sarah Cervantes on Unsplash

I’ve been human-ing for 25 years now and have yet to master the subtle art of saying hello and goodbye. You’d think it would be ingrained by now, but no. Every time a greeting situation is on the horizon, my mind goes through an anxious rigmarole of “when can I break into the conversation to say I’m leaving?” “At what distance should I make eye contact?” “How do I begin?”…