"Find something you like to do that is not done alone.  Golf, tennis, bowling, acting, anything that 'forces' you into a group."

"Cam games are good if you can separate reality from the fantasy of it.  For the LARP be the character.  Play a Malcavion, they are crazy anyway you wish to play it.  Which means you can't mis-step with the interactions…"

"I have a friend who was the shy guy in High School.  His first few years of college where Shy.  When he found out the girl he was interested in for a few years was also interested in him but he was too shy to ask he got mad enough at…"

"Sorry for taking so long to reply, school got in the way and then I forgot replying for a while. I still am not getting email notifications for replies yet I have a post on the forum about that but no one has helped me with it yet.I checked out the…"

"The first real vacation I remember taking was a scuba trip to Cozumel.  In order to do this, I had to first learn scuba, so it was quite an involved undertaking. it was a fantastic adventure and, as I booked it through a dive shop, I…"

"For the vast majority of humanity, normal is hardship.  Normal lacks comfort.  Normal is not suburbia and helicopter parents.  Normal requires a certain amount of pain; physical, psychological, emotional. Remember The Emperor…"

"Hey, I seen a really good TV show last week I think might be helpful and relevant to your situation. It was on British TV(I'm Scottish), and I'm guessing your american, but if you search on youtube " Derren brown: fear and faith…"

"Not only has the OP grown up in a cave.  He grew up in a warm padded cave with ambient lighting.  Didn't even receive the benefits of a hard, cold floor; flickering firelight; nor iron shackles to hint at reality.  I don't…"

"She's suggesting a trip.  Out of the country.   By going somewhere totally different than you're used to, your experiences will be broadened, and you'll see new things.  That's a given.  But what that does for…"

"Are you making fun of my vocabulary? And I don't exactly see the point of your "shadows" comparison in relation to my statements."

"Enigmatic much?"

"We are more "normal" than him.  We have a life experience he doesn't.   So those older and more experienced are therefore more "normal" than we? I don't buy that. Normal is relative. And doing a side-by-side…"

"Unwrap yourself from the cotton wool, before someone else does it for you. Sorry to be blunt, but nobody got anywhere in life without experiencing a lot of hard truths. Take a look at anyone who made it big, or even just made it. No fairytales…"

"You don't "find yourself," you create yourself. At least in part. Fortune often plays a part as well, bitch that she is. The best way to get past first base is to stop calling it "first base." Are you 12?  I…"

"How to find yourself? You mean character building. Do something that literally scares the hell out of you and make sure it has a hard physical element to it. It has to drive you almost to the end of your tether. Yes, it will suck. Yes, you will hate…"

"That's really helpful.  Thanks for pointing that out. "