break out of my shell

I’m about to enter my senior year in highschool and I want to come back as a changed person.the last couple of years have been very tough for me because my dad passed away and coping with reality can be tough at times.it is easy for me to talk with people once I get to know the,but I want to be open from the get go.

i feel that my quiet nature is going to limit my success as an artist. i need to learn to trust myself, and my creative talents. when i graduated high school i felt like i had achieved this. i won a national photography competition, and felt on top of the world and very confident. when i got to college, i wasn’t the best of the best anymore.

i’ve since decided photography is not what i want to do with my life, but i am an artist. i want to be an interior designer, or work in merchandise marketing. i feel i really need to become more confident to be successful in either of those fields.

I’ve been told by many people that I’m reserved and quiet, but once they get to know me, I break out of my shell. I’d like to start doing that from the get-go instead of having people “wait” to get to know me.
It’s not that I care too much of what others think, it’s just that it takes effort for me to reveal myself, so I just don’t do it. I’d like to be more open and express my opinions more often about everything.

it’s very worth doing it-I just said stuff this, this is my life, too short to waste on not doing what I want to do, or wasting it on people that are not worth my time or that I’m not worth theirs-I’m particularly proud of a moment when a girl whom I didn’t want to keep in contact with from school (actually, didn’t want to keep in touch with anyone from school because of the bad memories, but especially she) Facebooked me three times! I refused, thinking she’d get the point, but finally I blocked her, and soon she found out (as we have mutual friends and I probably wrote a wall post or something she could see), and wrote a really angry email to me asking why. I just said I wasn’t interested in being friends with her, and she had written that why wouldn’t you be? we were friends at school! And I said nup-we really never were, and that was the fact of the situation-and there it was. Now I know she told all our mutual friends, but still one continues to keep in touch with me (and we weren’t even particularly close either so it wasn’t as if she had any real reason to keep in touch!) and we had lunch for the first time in two years (we’re at uni and never see each other) just this semester! I was very gratified for that one friend’s friendship, especially as I really didn’t care anymore—let everyone make their judgement of me, if they are willing to be friends, fine, and if not, then never mind. And THAT’S the kind of thinking I would never have imagined myself thinking while at school, let alone carrying out for myself!

So just put yourself out there, do your own thing, and just trust in yourself. I’ve done that since coming to uni (I don’t deny I had to for a lot of things at uni) and nothing bad’s come of it—if anything, I feel a lot better at the end of every day!

I’m tired of being in a cage, and being afraid of what others think of me. In my night class I’ve been taking, I finally spoke up when they were having discussion. I didn’t want to at first, because there’s this guy I kinda have a crush on, and I was afraid of saying the wrong thing. But last week, I just said F*ck it, and I spoke up. Life is too short to be closed off and afraid of what others think.
All I can do is be myself, and I trust myself enough to put myself out there.

I just, basically, told someone how I’ve felt about them for a long time. It wasn’t the most graceful. In fact, it was pretty terrible and way too late, but it’s off my chest. I feel like, now that that’s done with, I can start to loosen up some more. This shell is wearing thin!

be more outgoing

I want to break out of my shell, I don’t want to be so quiet, I want to be loud. I don’t want to be so shy. I want to be able to talk to anyone without being nervous

I want to show people the real me.

this is no longer a priority for me. I’m rather introverted and contemplative, and this suits me. I’ve got nothing to prove, so I’m going to continue to practice the course and let social situations happen as they will.

Breaking out and going to your real persanality is really really worth it.
Sure you might not be popular at school or work (or you might be popular.) any more but you make friends who like you for who you are. I know.