<human>: Today I realized something. I was talking with a friend about how I feel as though the rest of the people I'm going to meet at college are going to be a bunch of assholes.

Recently I have felt as though everyone around me has been silently and secretly judging me. Thoughts always cross my mind that I have to do with what other people think about me. I guess it's just that time to time you do meet that jerk who makes you feel like everyone else must hate you too, if this one person does, or says or does something that makes you feel like it.

But after some reflection I realized something.
It's really me who has been judging everyone. I pick and choose my friends and if there's someone I don't perceive as "cool", then I'll deliberate not extend the hand of friendship to them, and yet I think a person is a snob if they're not friendly with me. It's dawned on me what a hypocrite I am, for committing the same crimes I criticize others for, when I have no proof that they do it. The truth is that while you can't be friends with everyone, that doesn't necessarily mean that everyone is your enemy. 

I look at all the new friends I have made and realize that the person I was before, who wasn't confident or charismatic, wouldn't be friends with these people, because I never would be the person who could take the initiative to strike up a friendly conversation. Sometimes that results in a real friendship, sometimes it doesn't, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't take a chance if you're afraid of the outcome.

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<bot>: I learned to stop assuming people judge me and that I should stop judging others, and shouldn't be afraid to be friendly