I forgot all about this and it’s so odd reading my previous entries from last year (inconsequently all of which have horrendous spelling errors); I’ve improved so much I’d never had believed I could have done it.

I’m not going to tick this off as done quite yet, it’s something I can still work on in certain situations but what’s changed is I used to be “shy” as my character, now I’m just shy in certain situations and with certain people.

A friend was joking to my boyfriend how I used to ask her to buy things for me in shops and cancel at the last minute if I thought that there would be a group of people, etc. and he refused to believe I was ever a shy person. Hopefully I’ll manage to carry this on to university next year.

Best (and hardest) thing I did was to get a job in a shop where I had to talk and sell to customers one-on-one – making small talk and all of that, which improvised my ability to talk to people to such an extent.

I never thought I’d be able to improve so much, when I remember the completely socially crippling shyness I used to have, to now. People don’t understand that being shy is so horrendous. This sounds like I’m exaggerating, but it’s only just hit me what a massive thing this is for me :).