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When I was 18, I moved away to go to University.
On the very first day, I was sat in the student union bar, and thought "look at all these people chatting and having fun, I wish I could join in, but nobody knows me".
I then realised that almost everyone there that day was a new student and knew nobody else.
I had always been shy, and lacking in social awareness, but I realised it was time to jump in and re-invent myself, as nobody here knew it was a false persona, so I walked up to a group that looked like a smallish mix of guys and girls, and introduced myself. I turned my fear ("I'm new here and have no contacts") into an ice breaker ("do you feel like that too?").
Turns out EVERYONE feels like that...
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Overhead, the Albatross hangs motionless upon the air,
And deep beneath the rolling waves,
In labyrinths of Coral Caves,
The Echo of a distant time
Comes willowing across the sand;
And everthing is Green and Submarine
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