I wouldn’t say shyness is a good trait but it’s not a bad one either. I’m just saying from experience, us shy people notice a lot we are able to observe and take judgement. Don't try to be what you're not. If you're nervous, be nervous. If you're shy, be shy. It's cute. As an adolescent, I am painfully shy, withdrawn. I don't really have the nerve to share my poems to other kids, and nobody else is doing them. I decide to do them in secretly so that I don't have to actually go through the humiliation of going in front of someone and being myself. I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate teens. I've done everything I can to avoid them. I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world. At my very core, I'm pretty shy. Success is blocked by concentrating on it and planning for it. Success is shyness - it won't come out while you're watching. I'm very private in person. I'm very sensitive and shy, with people. I have difficulty meeting people's eye, difficulty with public speaking, the normal afflictions of the shy, but not to a paralysing degree. I try my best to interact with other people but my anxiety seems to fail me. I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television. But when I'm talking, maybe there's this other channel or this other side or this other way of working in my mind, and I convert and become a very open and carefree. Like I have nothing else in the world to worry about but that all changes when They start talking back and then I start to stutter and stare blankly at them admiring them as they speak with so much passion over the things they care most about. And soon enough I become a nervous wreck because I didn’t hear a single word they said after “Well I…” and then I’m lost. I get super shy when it comes to introducing people and I am the only person to stand up in my area. Or when I get my name called up and I have to stay standing up until they get all the people they need to stand up. I get so uncomfortable when I have to stand next to other people because I get weirded out by people being so close to me. I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grow very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, inhibited, aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image. But what I portray to them versus what I really am behind close doors amazes me that i can have multiple personas and no ones knows. In general, questions are fine; you can always seize upon the parts of them that interest you and concentrate on answering those. And one has to remember when answering questions that asking questions isn't easy either, and for someone who's quite shy to stand up in an audience to speak takes some courage. I'm naturally shy, so the social media thing is new to me. I haven't really figured out how my words affect people on social media, you know? I don't want to tweet everyday just for the sake of tweeting. I want to make sure whatever I do there is honest. Social media can very quickly get fake, and I don't want to be that person. I'm very shy and awkward. I think the best thing is to embrace it. It's about accepting who you are and what you want to become and knowing all that you've got to work with, whether it's good or bad. My words is the only place I can be me for the longest time. With me I get shy when talking to my crush or meeting someone new. With other people it might be talking to people in general or even use it as a weapon to talk down on other people to make themselves feel better. Shyness is a mechanism used to examine, observe, and approve of people you see in your life. I am a shy, weird, closed-off, open-minded, artistic person that has high hopes in my future whether I’m a poet making millions or working at a small cafe barely making it on minimum wage, I am still going to be a shy, awkward, weird, closed-off, open-minded, artistic person. And I hope that one day I will get to watch someone just like me go through the change I did from elementary to high school. People who ask confidently get more than those who are hesitant and uncertain. When you've figured out what you want to ask for, do it with certainty, boldness and confidence. Don't be shy or feel intimidated by the experience. You may face some unexpected criticism, but be prepared for it with confidence.
