interesting how easily people underestimate someone when they’ve only seen one side of them they see your age and assume inexperience. your softness and assume weakness. your willingness to listen and assume you don’t have an opinion of your own but there’s a difference between being quiet and having nothing to say and between being kind and being easy to influence i think there’s something powerful about being a person who’s always observing, always learning, always building a perspective of their own you don’t have to announce every thought, prove every point, or compete with everyone in the room the most interesting thing about a person is how much more there is to them than people initially assumed