Sarah "Awkward" Boucher

I realized that I stink...I mean really stink at interacting with people. Not in situations where I run into them in places that I normally would and not in normal everyday conversations but when I see people randomly in RANDOM places. I am just awkward. I never know what to say and suddenly I get shy. It's like my whole world gets shifted off its axis if somebody happens to be somewhere when I am not expecting it. And it's not just like when I see people I don't want to, For example: The other day I went into Rumbi to grab some dinner and I ran into a kid from my ward. My first thought was to hide, wouldn't you say that is weird considering he is a friend and someone I have known my whole life. I said a quick "hi, how are you?" and went to order. I realized how incredibly awkward I was and how I probably either came across as "cold" or in a hurry (neither of which applied to the situation). I thought afterwards of all the things I could of said instead of walking away quickly. Or today when one of my sisters friends from high school ended up being at a wedding dinner that I was serving at the Lion House. I just said hi awkwardly and tried to think of what to say. I could have asked her a million things but for some reason at the time my mind was so incredibly blank. Hahaha, What can I say....I am just an awkward human! I guess I will just need practice with this...in the mean time I will just have to embrace that awkwardness is just a part of who I am!