I want to say that I have it, too, but this time I am what people call an "immoral salesman".
I signed up for an oral English training institution. Last Saturday, the oral English class organized an activity to let me go to the supermarket to introduce myself in English in front of strangers and get my signature. Control the time within half an hour.
I am a particularly introverted person, and this activity is quite difficult for me. At that time, the activity was arranged at 9 am, when the supermarket had just opened. Customers are usually aunts and grandmothers who buy food. Most of them may not know English, so they are more likely to be rejected than people of other ages. So at first my partner and I decided to try to find a younger one.
We took a middle-aged woman as our first goal, and the result was rejected from the beginning. Before we say "hello, can I leave for a moment?" We are embarrassed to continue to wave no at our convenience. The staff on the side also asked us not to disturb the customers.
After being rejected again and again, another partner took us to several grandmothers and said that they were very nice. As soon as we went, the two grandmothers knew our intention and said, "Come on, little girl, I'll sign it for you." I handed the book up. She wore a pair of reading glasses and signed them one by one, saying, "I'll sign more for you."
I got my autograph without introducing myself, which soothed my newly injured heart. It also gave me courage. I decided to go it alone. Although things didn't go so smoothly, someone accepted my request and came to listen to my introduction.
I was deeply impressed by three "listeners". One is an uncle who may be fifty or sixty years old. Although he didn't speak English, he agreed to my request. After my introduction, he asked me if I studied English. I said no, I studied Chinese. My uncle said, yes, I speak English so well.
One is a young lady in her twenties. After we finished, she also gave us some suggestions on how to express ourselves better.
Another lady said that she had listened to several people before me, but I was the best one.
I was rejected by many people in this activity, but it doesn't matter. I will continue to seek the next goal. Like being knocked down by setbacks, you can still stand up and run forward.
From this matter, I am still thinking about a problem. Do I sometimes become an "indifferent" person because I am too vigilant?
When I was walking on the road, I caught a glimpse of a middle-aged woman coming towards me with a piece of paper in her hand. Seeing that the situation was not good, I quickly waved to her and ran away. But walking and thinking are wrong, because there is an old man and a child next to her, so I went back and asked her what happened just now, only to know that she just wanted to ask the way. Suddenly my heart shook. When did I become so wary of strangers?
When I first entered the university, I was bombarded by waves of "sweeping the building" every night. At first, I felt fresh and fun, but gradually I felt bored and dissatisfied. Later, we didn't even open the dormitory door. On the way to class every day, the entrance of the canteen will be bombarded by a large wave of leaflets, and sometimes even forced to listen to the salesman for half an hour.
Maybe I'm too afraid to accept sales promotion that I don't need. I choose to look forward, stride forward and practice walking on the runway with bjm, which gives people the feeling of being aloof and indifferent. But am I too "cold", so cold that pedestrians who ask for directions refuse, so cold that they have to think twice about borrowing money to save sick kittens.