I am Jane Lee, a fairly low-key person. I don’t enjoy gossip or thrive on drama. I’m not a wallflower by any means, but I don’t need to be the center of attention to have fun and feel “good.” I’m difficult to anger and consistently happy and grateful for what I have. I'm a pretty private person and it takes a while for people to actually get to know me. Overall, I'm just a regular girl content with life.To be honest with you, I actually had some difficulty with answering the question of what it is that I do. This is because my parents started putting me and my brother in various and countless after-school activities since the ripe age of five, attempting to get a head start on plumping up our college resumes (psh... Asian parents). Because of this, I never truly fell in love with any of them--I spread myself so thin, I never truly became invested in any of them. So I’m not going to tell you about a favorite hobby or activity, but I will say one particular thing that I’ve always loved doing and do my best to explain why.So what is it that I do? I’m a listener. I’ve always loved listening to other people talk about their day, their perception of life, their problems, their hobbies, their feelings, their lives in general… anything and everything. I put myself in their shoes, try to imagine life from their perspective, empathize with them, give advice… but mostly, as I said, I just listen. Because that seems to help them the most. It calms and comforts them while simultaneously feeding my own selfish pleasure. What I mean by that is that people are interesting to me; the more people I talk to, the more I learn, and the happier I am. I listen because I can’t help myself from it; it is intriguing and interesting, and it expands and develops my acuity of life. It lets me appreciate things more, makes me curious about how and why each individual’s minds work the way they do, and it makes me more accepting of other people and their viewpoints. I listen because it lets me feel like I experience life ten different times a day in ten different ways. Maybe this is why I don't need constant attention to be happy (as stated before)—because I’d rather learn more about other people any day.
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