Have you ever met a new friend, someone that you aren’t really familiar with, but in the first instance both of you met each other, you two instantly clicked and became fast friends?

Well, I would say that I’m the total opposite of such.

I am the type of person where I’m afraid of strangers. No matter how familiar I am with you on the internet, when it come to real life, I will be scared to see you and will be really uneasy when we met for the first time… Let alone those who I have just met for the first time in real life. Unless you emits an aura that eliminate my fear (through whatever means), I would just kept quiet throughout the whole meeting up. People who don’t know me would probably think that I’m too proud to be friendly and to talk to them. For this reason alone, I have relatively less net friend compared to others. Insecurity is the reasoning behind my social phobia.

This social phobia that I carries with me since birth, of course, poses a big problem to me, especially when meeting up new friends when the new semester commences. I currently have 150++ classmates, where 30++ was from the same intake with me during Year 1… the remaining 120 persons are mostly strangers to me. As if things aren’t bad enough, I’m also terrible at remembering faces and names. ==”

But things seems to be changing. I’m slowly (but steadily) picking up names and faces of my classmates. Last Friday's company law presentation also helps in terms of knowing who is who in our class. I’d also gather enough courage to actually speak to some of my classmates recently, and the responds are generally positive.

Hopefully things will be better soon and I’ll finally be able to know everyone from my class =)

p.s: this post looks like a primary school essay. FML.