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as a shy person in recovery...
i think one of the problems is that your math is heavily weighted to give you the result you're looking for. Rejection isn't the only cost involved. Not knowing if you had a chance is one too...because i know the times i didn't get up the courage to say something...even if it might have been a shoot down...those are the times i regret the most.
i don't think you have to be anybody but you...but one thing to consider is that there is an automatic level of respect that you need to grant yourself just to get through the day. in denny's, you're a patron. that gives you status. in that comic book shop, the same... walking down the street, hell, you're a human being and a citizen of this nation. that gives you right to be there. i guess my point is that thinking of yourself as not having status compounds some of these situations.
respect is a 24/7 kind of deal....
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For God so loved creation, that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believed should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16
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