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How do I into not being a hermit?
I'm a busy, active guy, decent looking. I'm out of the house and see people all the time, but I feel like just another face in the crowd. Every time I look up at someone's eyes I always look away despite mentally telling myself "make eye contact and smile" over and over. The only people I really know in the town I live in are work friends and my roommate. I went to compliment a girl's shoes at the coffee bar who kept looking at me for 10 minutes, but I darted away when our eyes met every time.
I'm at my wit's end with myself. I don't want to spend my life doing things alone, all I do is grind and my life is a series of alternating periods of hardship and stoic solitude. I want to be sociable, make friends, meet a nice girl, enjoy a little tenderness and cameraderie once in a while.
Can anyone relate? How do I put an end to this squirrely mentality and make myself vulnerable to people?
