Small Talk

13
Surviving the Singles Scene
You enter a roomful of people. All of them seem to be
happily engaged in conversation with someone else.
You start to worry that others are going to judge you and
find you lacking. You steel yourself for rejection. You almost
turn and decide it’s not worth it to attend this
event.
You may be suffering from “social anxiety disorder.”
But chances are you’re just attending a singles event and
feeling the natural anxiety of putting yourself out there
and making yourself vulnerable.
Probably the scariest social scene is one in which you
are there specifically to meet other people. You don’t
have the purpose of networking to prop you up. You are