become more outgoing, less shy

I remember when I was in elementary and middle school, I would hardly talk to anyone. I even had kids come up to me and ask me why I never talked to anyone! However, I guess somewhere between then and growing up, I started to come out of my shell. I’m not afraid of stating my opinion for the most part and I don’t find it extremely difficult to strike up conversations. However, I do sometimes get quite nervous in uncomfortable situations and I even have a stuttering problem sometimes (which is quite embarrassing :() I don’t know if other people have this problem, but when I am among others who know each other and they are all talking, I find it incredibly hard to enter their conversation, because I don’t know what to talk about! I don’t know if my problem has more to do with being too shy or just not having anything to say, but sometimes it is a bit hard to interact with people and I need to put a stop to that and get out of my little shell.

if only it were that easy

i’ve always been so shy. i remember once when i was little at church (a small church…like 70 people was packing it), i walked up to my mom and asked her for something. the guy she was talking to was like…man…i don’t want to be rude or anything, but i didn’t know she could speak. i thought there was something wrong with her but i just didn’t want to ask!

i’m not really sure why i’m this way…but i think it’s time for me to put myself out there. i need to stop being so intimidated by situations and just be confident in who i am as a person. what’s the worst that could happen?

I really want to get over this because i am sick of being in the background and not having any life. I hate being afraid of talking to or dealing with people and im so over always worrying about what they think of me. I want to be more cinfident in myself and be happy with the person i am. No idea how im going to do this but you have to start somewhere.

I’m still unable to strike up a conversation about anything apart from the odd hobby of mine, I thought I have come a long way but in fact I haven’t. I would like another fresh start somewhere and start off outgoing and try keep it up.

I just got out of a 5 month relationship. Where nothing really happend, him and i were probably two of the shyest people you could ever meet. All we ever heard was “aww you guys are so cute.” But now that we broke up, for some reason i just feel like im out of my shell. All of a sudden i feel like i can start a new beggining. A new beginning where my life isn’t based on what other people think. My new life is based on what i think of myself. And what my bestfriends think of me. Now a days i couldn’t care less what other think. I’m going to try and be a much more outgoing person.

It been a while since I looked at this… apparently, snce for the last oh six months or so my band has been touring and playing shows all over the west. Being outgoing became part of my life and I’ll never trade that in!!!! Singing in front of 100 to 600 people every night was hard at first but by my last show in December, I was doing it without issue!!!!!

ive nearly completed this task, today i had an argumentative discussion / debate with someone and i wouldn’t have had courage to state my full opinion if i was still as shy as i was.
i really liked saying what i felt at the time that i felt it, because i usually think something but am too shy to say what i feel, which i always regret! right now i do not regret not saying something, i said all that i needed to say and feel really posititive :-)

im a shy person and feel uncomfortable when im centre of attention so i like to be inconspicuous and hidden, BUT that is different from being ignored and uncknowledged. the people who know me, know how i am naturally but i suppose i shouldn’t care what anyone thinks of me because if they like me then they like me for who i am. The thing i hate most (other shy people will know this to be true) is when a total stranger or a new person i know TELLs me to be more energetic and less shy- well that just makes me feel worse and i go further into my shell(i so hate that) i think i’ll need some advice about this one!
x

My friends are very outgoing and very much enjoy embarrasing me in public… its really helped. My guy friends, yeah they love to freak me out by getting other people to come up and say that I’m hot!!! its a huge self esteem booster and it really does help in becoming more outgoing