This post has not been vetted or endorsed by BuzzFeed's editorial staff. BuzzFeed Community is a place where anyone can create a post or quiz. Try making your own!Buzz·Posted on Sep 16, 201430 Daily Phenomena All Socially Awkward People Must BattleOh hey, life. Why are you so scary?by ShanrahCommunity ContributorLinkFacebookPinterestTwitterMail 1. Deciding whether it’s too early to break eye contact, because it’s literally killing you to maintain it. 2. Bracing yourself for the worst 10 seconds of your life when you have to be alone with a stranger in an elevator. 3. Or at a pedestrian crossing. Please little man, turn green?! Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 4. Deep breathing through hairdresser visits. Seriously, who even has three hours worth of small-talk topics? 5. Calculating whether an incoming phone call can be combatted with a text or, better still, an email. 6. Because if you do answer the phone, you will generally screw up the timing of the goodbye/hang-up procedure. 7. Baby anxiety attacks over whether it’s going to be a handshake, a hug, a fist pound, or (PLEASE LORD NO) cheek kisses. 8. Because we all know the risk of cheek kisses becoming ear nibbles. 9. Seriously wondering if Beyonce’s ability to look so sexy is the result of some kind of CIA science magic. 10. Verbal-vomiting your life story onto a stranger, because awkward silence is death. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 11. Or, filling that awkward silence with fake coughs. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 12. Having zero grasp of how to appropriately navigate a “stop and chat” with an acquaintance in the street. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 13. Therefore, conducting a very important search through your handbag to avoid acknowledging that you’ve seen them. 14. Conniptions when you enter a bar and realize it has a dance floor. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 15. Pretending you need to stretch because standing still in a conversation is so awkward it hurts. 16. Then pretending that this very moment is when you need to re-apply lip-balm. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 17. Bracing yourself with disaster movie theme music just to walk past other humans whilst balancing a cup of coffee. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 18. Brainstorming 267 genius ways to forfeit a first date. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 19. Panicking that your seat buddy on the train might have interpreted that knee-bump as sexual tension. 20. Panicking that anybody might interpret anything as sexual tension. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 21. Panicking, fake-stretching and re-applying lip-balm when there's REAL sexual tension. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 22. The real life struggle when people want a sip from your straw (with their mouth). Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 23. Pretending not to mind or even notice when somebody pilfers your favorite pen, just to avoid talking about it. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 24. Pretending not to mind about anything if it means you can avoid talking about it. 25. Dying inside when you wave hello to somebody and they don’t notice. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 26. Complete vocabulary amnesia when forced to converse with someone you’ve thought about having sex with. 27. Acute awareness of exactly what your hands, feet, mouth, eyes and tummy fat are doing during this conversation. 28. Battling your conviction that they can literally see your thoughts on your face. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF 29. Battling your conviction that you have snot on your face. 30. Dropping things. You know, like sandwiches. Your keys. The ball of life, generally. Tap to play GIF Tap to play GIF