How you treat seniors says a lot about you. Always respect your elders by not patronizing them or underestimating them. Remember, senior citizens have led full and interesting lives and deserve to be treated just like anyone else.
To someone who is shy, being greeted with a sea of unfamiliar faces in a social situation causes immediate stress, and sometimes anxiety. It can include the heart beating faster, hands becoming sweaty and an uncomfortable feeling where escape seems the best solution. Though every one has likely felt shy or unconfident in a certain situation, it can become an embarrassing and debilitating quality-preventing friendships and general communication with others. By befriending a shy person, you could be doing much more for that person than giving them a new friend; you could be giving them comfort, allowing them to open…