>>18142527Precisely. It only is easy once you fail, and if you can get up and go back at it again, it'll be easier.
But it's generic advice because movies and media have put in people's mind that there's a secret formula to be popular or get a significant other, but reality is it's as boring as "get out and talk to people".
Most couples meet at school, work, or places where a common interest is celebrated. This applies to friends to, since gf/bf are just best friends you fuck with (and you can tell when it's not easily).
It's "easy", but it's not "simple". I gave you the tips and the advice needed. Knowing is the "easy" part. The hard part is for you to take action instead of romantizicing your loneliness or justifying your own suffering.
I can tell already that you're an anxious person. I get it, I am too, diagnosed by 3 professionals. We tend to sabotage our own happiness by rejecting any and all advice with lame excuses just to hide our fear of the future consequences.
What can you do to overcome this? Easy answer: go to therapy. A couple of sessions with a decent expert is good enough, you don't need to go full years to find it out.
Hard answer: whenever you realize your shy demeanor and inactive personality starts to take over and sabotaging you, just say "FUCK IT" and blindly jump into action.
I made some precious friends by doing that, and at first you'll want to die, but you'll realize eventually that it's just fear of rejection, and the worst thing they can tell you is "no". After that happens, life continues, and many more people will accept who you are, faults and all.
Have a good day anon.
