Reluctant Introvert

Always the quiet one.

Floundering when the small talk starts (I'm trying, please bear with me)

Swallowed up in a room full of people (especially if I don't know you all that well)

Slow to contribute (although I desperately want to)

Seemingly disinterested (but I'm listening to and thinking about every word)

Never anything worthwhile to say (although my thoughts are THUNDERING in my head)

Just about to speak (but then someone's said pretty much what I was going to say anyway, so I'll leave it)

The one with little confidence (- sometimes that's true)

Apparently awkward and perhaps boring (but you don't know me)

Go home deflated that I failed again (because quiet is bad, isn't it?)