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From: flink@umcp-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: shyness and 'trying'
Message-ID: <4482@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 18-Dec-83 23:47:01 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec 18 23:47:01 1983
Date-Received: Wed, 21-Dec-83 01:12:03 EST
Organization: Univ. of Maryland, Computer Science Dept.
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I agree with farzin (mokhtar@ubc-visi) that whoever said shy men try too
hard probably doesn't understand shyness.  Someone was saying that one
shouldn't have to feel like one is 'trying' at all.  The problem with that
is that a shy person like me (beleive it or not, as feisty as I may seem in
print, in real life I'm shy) has to push himself pretty hard in order to
initiate something.  If I just did what 'comes naturally' and 'feels
comfortable', I might be ("TRULY") single for the rest of my life!

I realize that there's a lot to say for just doing what 'comes naturally'
and such, but I don't feel that that helps the dilemma of the shy person.

				Shy and available,     <-- advertisement
				--Paul Torek, umcp-cs!flink