Someone I like and have had a growing friendship with sent me a text message today about my being boorish and unaware of my physical space recently when we were together.
I was wearing a padded backpack, carrying camera equipment, and ha been wearing one the the bodies/with a big heavy lens around my neck. By the end of the day, when we met up, I'm really tired, my knees and feet sore as is my neck from the camera weight.
It’s no excuse, but apparently she’s had to navigate around me drifting around as I walk and keep bumping into her. She’s recently had surgery so this is especially bad on my part.
I really don’t have an excuse.
I’m completely blindsided by this, I don’t doubt that it’s true, she’s not a cruel person, but how could I be so unaware of how I’m moving through space and how it is affecting the people around me?
It was never intentional, and I think she realizes that. I’m mortified, of course that she would need to say anything at all and that I wasn’t aware of this behavior. Hurt feelings aside, I am glad that she spoke up and made me aware of the problem. I will work to be more aware of myself going forward.
Still, I feel just awful.
