Skydiving, eating a food foreign to your taste buds or doing something completely out of your comfort zone. It’s what adds excitement and memories to your life that you’ll cherish in the future. Trying new things may not always be a scary experience but it certainly is different from your normal daily routine.

It helps you gain satisfaction from being courageous enough to try a new food that you’re not used to or some extreme sport. Living every day with the old and monotonous routine is something that life shouldn’t be. You have the choice between monotony and excitement. Life is meant to be something fun and unexpected. It’s supposed to be something that keeps you trying to guess what’s next and give you many choices of what you can do. Being open to trying new things helps broaden our horizons when it comes to cuisine, entertainment or could help you meet people that you know you’ll be friends with for life. We believe high school is the time to come out of your shell, expand your horizons and add to your experience of life early on. It gives you the chance to meet people you never thought you would, take on more tasks than you usually would, and just have all of the fun that’s part of our high school experience.

So this year, start out new. Talk to the shy kid who sits next to you in math. You could have a thing or two in common. Try asking out that girl you don’t think you stand a chance with. You might end up being her entire world. It may seem easy to break out of your shell but for some people it can be tough.

You could feel socially awkward and not worth talking to when in reality you could meet someone else like you. You can meet someone who feels the same way about trying new things. You could meet someone that avoids trying new things like the plague. Both of you would have that in common.

Being shy isn’t always a bad thing. You can meet other shy people much like yourself and in the end break out of your shell with people who are just as shy as you are. Being shy is sometimes thought of as a way to potentially avoid the pain of losing someone in the future but it doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. You’re not the only shy kid in the universe. There are many more people who have so many things in common with the territory that comes with being shy. If you’re going to be lonely, why not be lonely with someone else who feels the same way you do? Never feel that you’ll always be alone.

Trying new things could be a great way to remove the feelings of loneliness from your thoughts. Don’t be afraid of the unexpected. Don’t be afraid to break out of your shell that you’ve been in all of high school. With every day that goes by, more and more things are possible. Try something new. You never know what path it will take you on in the future.