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I don't exactly know when I stopped making eye contact with people, but it's an often enough occurrence that every day acquaintances feel the need to say something about it. It's possible that I never did make eye contact with people. I mean, I was partly raised by my grandmother - a woman who was the epitome of feminism long before the ideal ever existed - who, I remember, always told me to look people in the eyes when speaking to them as a sign of respect. But then again, she did tell me recently (I'm a few months shy of thirty years old) that I should work on my confidence. That I should walk like I own the world.
I laughed. "I do."
"Yes, but you're always looking down. Never look down. You're not going that way."
This is something I want to change about myself. I do want to look in people's eyes when they are talking to me so I can respect them and what they have to say. It could be a confidence thing, but regardless of the cause, that's something I want to work on.
