I didn’t have a social life during my teenage years. I was extremely self-conscious, shy, and so refrained from any and all major social gatherings during high school. As a result, I graduated with very few friends.
In the 4 years since, I’ve become a lot more confident and comfortable with myself, yet I’ve found every year to be more and more difficult when it comes to branching out and meeting new people and forming new bonds. It just feels like I’m becoming more and more isolated. It doesn’t help that I just started university for STEM, and so I don’t really have a lot of time, but even then I feel like I’m not doing enough to put myself out there.
Does anyone else have a bad habit of constantly looking back at your high school years and becoming paralyzed with regret? Like everything changes. People move away, grow up, start families, start their careers. The simple innocence of those days is so quickly gone and never really recreated and so if you miss out in the moment, you’re kind of screwed. Yeah, a lot of it is probably overrated and over-romanticized, but it’s still such a abrupt life change.