Hey. I'm a fifteen year old male, decent shape, acne, with many current (and past) family problems. My biggest problem is shyness.
I seem to be shy for no reason. I don't have any friends. There are several people I talk to at school. But no one ever calls me to do stuff, or talk much to me school and I don't really call them either because I'm shy. Well, talk isn't the right word. Here is a typical conversation between me and someone.
Them: Did you see South Park last night?
Me: Yea
Them: Man that episode was awesome dude, I love the part with cartmen farts!
Me: (Laughing) Yea
And that's it. Whenever I talk to someone I'm either laughing at a joke they say or I just continue to say stuff like "Yeah", "Oh yeah, I know", "Yup", "Pretty Sure".
I want to fix this. I went to one friends house for easter weekend (more like a brother, we're that good of friends, but he lives five hours from my house). And we went to some of his friends house. Wow! He does more things with this friends this past weekend then I have done in the past couple months. This has really motivated me to be more like him. Though I hardly talked there, I still had a ton of fun.
I want to be one of the popular people, the one's who go to people's houses with lots of other kids. The one who people want to call to see if they're free. The one who's cell rings with their friends calling. But I don't see why I cannot - it drives me mad!
Please help!
Brendan
