Growing up, I would talk to anyone who would listen, rambling on even in the way toddlers do. I would talk to waiters or waitresses at restaurants, cashiers, anyone. My outgoingness obviously worried my parents because they thought I would get kidnapped. They even put a lock up higher on our front door so I would not be able to open the door to a stranger and get stolen. But as I grew up I became more and more shy and introverted. In middle school was when I became less social and turned more toward my studies. I was less talkative, had less friends, and talking to people I did not know frightened me. Middle school was a tough time for me. It’s a time where you drift away from old friends because you are beginning to find yourself; which