Hi world,
Saying “hi” or greeting someone is one of the easiest things in the world. I think starting from when we were all little kids we learn from our parents to say “hello” and wave when we meet someone new, and to say “bye” and wave to people when we leave or when you left somewhere.
But somewhere along the way, things got complicated. Somewhere along the way things like hugs were introduced. And I don’t mean just like hugs like hugging your grandparents. But like people who you hardly know. AND THEN when you thought things couldn’t get anymore complicated…
The kiss on the cheek.
I mean, I think for all the normal people who are reading this. Yeah all of these things sound like nothing to you. But to me anything past a wave seems soo awkward. I was brought up on the wave. I like the wave. Waves are simple. Waves are easy. People don’t expect things from the wave.
The thing is. At what point in a relationship between friends do you evolve from a wave to a hug? or even to a kiss on the cheek?
I’ve got an example. There is a girl. For comedic sake, I’m going to call her Chi Chi. So Chi Chi and I have been in maybe three or four classes together our whole university lives. I feel like I hardly know her and thus my logic leads me to believe that we are ‘waving’ friends. But somehow, to her, without my knowledge or any kind of mutual agreement, we are instantly ‘kiss on the cheek’ friends.
And this is where the awkward part comes in.
Whenever we bump into each other at university. I will do something like smile and wave. And saying Hello isn’t the hard. She smiles and waves back and sometimes we have a conversation. However, it is after we finish our conversation, where instead of receiving a smile and a wave back, Chi Chi has to approach me with a hug. So then I’m stuck in this situation where I’ve just raising my arm for a wave and she is coming in for a hug, or even worse a kiss on the cheek… Obviously at this point we are in some weird situation where one of my arms are down beside me while the other is awkwardly around her while she is hugging me with my arm tucked inside and things are all over the place and just messed up.
Sigh… I don’t know what’s wrong with me.
Maybe its because there is some part in the brain that is in charge of knowing what to do in these situations and my brain is missing that part?
Maybe its because of my weird long arms?
Maybe its because I’m afraid of girls?
Life would just be twenty times easier if everyone just waved.
- wave goodbye timothy
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