About Me — Swarnali Paul

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Introducing myself has always felt like staring into a mirror I can’t quite see myself in. It’s strange how the simplest question can feel like the hardest to answer.

Everything true to me or about me is something that compels me to write about after staring long at a black screen. I am more than capable of writing about my certain experiences, movies or nature. I am not huge but definitely a cinephile and love to explore and live a zero-waste sustainable lifestyle. But do these make me who I am? Also, it is weird for me to talk about myself because About Me — is kind of an autobiography, isn’t it? Which, I am not good at, for sure.

Since a young age I know ‘Tell us something about yourself’ is asked in every single interview.

Yet, I never made myself fully prepared for it. To date, after working with 2+ years of experience in corporate and having appeared in 4 interviews, As far as I remember, every time I have fumbled at this moment. Never been easy.

Then, what is it? Why am I scared to simply introduce myself to the world?

I always had problems speaking my feelings to the opposite person. Making eye contact and telling them…