Go outside and you’ll have an amazing life by accident

Let me tell you a story. I was going out to sort of tackle my social anxiety by going to busy places where I usually feel the most anxious. So I get ready, go into the street and here I encounter the first problem. I have to get a taxi. Here where I live you have to flag down a taxi by holding your hand out. And I was so socially anxious that that was a problem for me, I felt awkward standing in one place waiting for a taxi so I’d walk around like a retard which made not realize that there were empty taxis I could have flagged down, and even if i did notice them I may have been too scared to hold my hand out.

Eventually I find a taxi and I get to the place I wanted to go. It’s a big park besides the river that's probably a few kilometers long. I walk this path and there are so many people I feel like everyone's looking at me thinking “who’s this dumbass walking around”. I walk and I walk and I walk. And then I go to leave. And as I’m leaving someone calls out for me and says “hey bro I seen you walking around here all alone”. I’m now curious to who this fella is so I exit the gate and meet him outside. Turns out this guy had also come here all alone like me. We start talking and have nice conversations, we hang out a little bit then I go home. How fucking sick is that. I just left my house and now I made a new friend without even trying. All I did was just leave my fucking home. If you just go outside random ass interesting shit always happens.

Or I did something similar to that where I went to this busy café to do the same thing of confronting my social anxiety. I was sitting there thinking everyone was just looking at me and shit burying my face into my phone. I ordered once, out of order. I ordered something else, out of order. I order a third thing, and it takes 30 mins to come out. And at this point I’m a little bit pissed, I’m sat here like a weirdo all alone and it looks like I haven’t ordered anything and when I do get the courage to order it’s out of order. Randomly as I’m sitting there one of my friends randomly show up and asks me “where are the others”. “The other’s? Motherfucker I didn’t even know you were gonna show up let alone ‘others’ ”. “Oh yea bro we all planned to meet up here and shit” and I was like ok well I’m here let’s have fun. You planned to meet up here, I’ll continue with you guys then.

I didn’t plan to meet these guys, I didn’t know they were going to show up, I didn’t have any of that shit in mind. But it just happened to happen. Shit happens when you go outside, and by the way this happened twice, not once, but twice.

The other day I went biking and I did my first ever cold approach randomly. Now, to be fair it was one of those lazy cold approaches where you start by asking a question, but who gives a fuck. And it was so random too like I was literally just biking got lost trying to find my way and then I just cold approached a girl and that shit was not in the plan. I didn’t think that I was gonna cold approach that day but it just happened cause I left my house and let the universe happen to me!

All this to say, if you want to have an interesting life, all you have to do is just go outside. It’s that simple! Go bike to the nearest park, go to some restaurant nearby and buy something. And if you don’t happen to stumble upon people like I did that’s ok too. You can have social fun by just randomly talking to people.

The same day I did the cold approach there was this little kid on his bike and he was clearly spooked by the stray dogs all over the street. So I asked if he was spooked by those dogs earlier and we had a funny conversation about his cousin getting bitten randomly by stray dogs.

Or another day I saw some big guy walking around. And I was so anxious to go up to him and ask if he went to the gym or not. Eventually I walked to him with my legs opened my mouth and asked him if he did go to the gym. Turns out this guy was ex military, and a gymnastics and swimming coach at 3 different sports facilities. I also cracked some funny ass jokes with him. How cool is that, I just decided to practice my social skills randomly and now I got to know some badass dude whose waiting for sports 2 to get released 😂.

I can give you so much more random examples of me just randomly striking up a conversation with someone and having a good time.

Moral of the story. GO OUTSIDE. AND TOUCH SOME GRASS. There should be NO reason for you not to do this especially if you’re in a western country or you’re in a big city. I’m living in a third world country in a small “city” which is honestly an exaggeration. It’s more like a sad little town with 3 things you can do. If you live somewhere like Toronto, London, New York, Cairo, Istanbul, those cities are so big there are an infinite amount of things to do. If you just look on google maps there’s a thousand spots you can go, a million parks, museums, events, displays, restaurants. Just go and interesting things will happen to you and you’ll have a very interesting life and many stories to tell.

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