Hi! I’m a 22-year-old girl, and something happened today that made me realize I don’t always know how to act in social situations. I was in a meeting with one of my students, and two girls who are related to my student ( they’re all my age ) joined at the end to say hi. They were extremely nice to me — they complimented my hijab and were just really sweet overall. I thanked them and told them they looked pretty too (because they are!), but after that, I felt kind of thrown off guard. I didn’t really know what else to say, so I just smiled a lot, and then the silence felt kind of awkward. This isn’t the first time this has happened — whenever someone is unexpectedly kind or complimentary, I never know how to respond naturally, and I end up feeling a bit silly afterwards, it also makes me sad because I would like to make friendships with other girls and a lot of the times these girls are very nice, but I’m just too awkward to know how to act and I feel like I’m not cool enough to befriend this type of girls .