One of my best friends and I met at a piano recital rehearsal when we were about 13. We happened to be sitting by each other during the rehearsal and neither of us said a word to the other, hindered by our shyness. I thus thought she was stuck up and snobby. She thought the same of me. All because of our silence. Truth was, neither of us was stuck up. We were just shy.  My friend and I didn’t start… Read more »