About Me — Samiksha Shrivastava

I Don’t Know Who I Am, and That’s Okay.

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So, I’ve been on Medium for quite a few months now — reading, writing, observing… and today I thought, why not introduce myself?

Hi, I’m Samiksha Shrivastava.
And no, I’m not going to tell you about my education, strengths, or weaknesses — because this isn’t a CV, this is my story, this platform isn’t LinkedIn, and also none of you are here to offer me a job.

So let’s skip the formalities.

I’m an introvert, but not the Pinterest-aesthetic kind who sits by the window sipping coffee and journaling.

I’m the kind who overthinks a “Hi” for three hours and mentally replays every conversation from 2014.

I’m the one who makes excuses to skip plans—even the ones I made when I was in a little extrovert mode.

I'm the one who wonders, “Why is someone calling me when they could just text?”
(In reality, I’m going to ignore the text, too.)

I love silence, not because I have nothing to say, but because I realized my thoughts are already too loud.

I wasn’t always like this.
As a kid, I talked a lot. I mean — a LOT. I’d talk to strangers in grocery stores, to animals, to the moon, to trees……