En estos días de redes sociales y en un mundo de exposición, ser tímido es un acto de contracultura.
Enlace: Shyness (The Boston Globe)
Darwin also had a feel for the mystery of shyness. Blushes in particular were wonderful to him: “Why,” he mused in “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,” “should the thought that others are thinking about us affect our capillary circulation?” Why indeed. The last time I blushed I felt as if my head were about to burst into flames. What was the cause? I can’t remember. But it must have been something important. Shyness is a tribute paid to the gravity of human interaction, a proper dread at the fact of other people: their closeness, the weight of their existence, their power to hurt, and our power to hurt them. We are delicate creatures, mask it how we will, and we live in a medium of feeling: No chance of forgetting this if you’re of the tribe of the shy.
Enlace: Shyness (The Boston Globe)