Maybe I was wrong. Maybe I am actually a likeable person.

Good day to you guys. 28M here. Lots of life stuff happening that I could graduate with a mid degree last April. I have severe anxiety in many dimensions. Financial, romance, and of course, social.

Almost all my life, I rarely was an initiator and opted to stay silent to keep the conversation going, even if it meant without me contributing and just being like air.

Anyway, at work, everyone made me think that maybe I am actually liked, or at least, not hated enough as people still showed their regret when they heard that I was going to switch job.

People called me to sit with them.

People walked up to me to talk, not about work, but about me.

People kept asking me when it was going to be my last day.

Lots of people came to ask for a picture, or a hug.

Some outright said they wish they could see me one more time before I quit (our work has shift, so some have days off on my last day).

One person, who is my best friend at work, still text me and I him. (We are close enough to go on a 3-day trip together last month).

and so on.

It made me realized that maybe, just maybe, I could have been too anxious about everything.

Let's hope my current place will become as good as my previous place.

Posted Aug 12, 2026, 3:17 AM UTC

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