SamF, it breaks my heart when people say they are lacking in confidence, or even worse, shy.
I think everyone is too some extent shy underneath the bravado. It's partly a survival instinct. If we ran head first everywhere we'd probably be dead. People just mask it in different ways. I do it by trying to be funny.
No one is given an instruction book about how to live, you just find your own way. There is no right or wrong way.
Just remember you are as good as every other person, and just be yourself, which judging from the things you post on here, is a pretty okay sort of a person.
One of the good things about getting older is shyness usually disappears. You realise lifes too short to worry about what other people think about anything, including yourself.
