On the outside looking in.

[Extreme586]

The thing that has been frustrating me the most and gives me constant anxiety and stress is the fact that I isolated myself from everybody acting weird towards people I want to be around but couldn't because of my low self esteem.

I was never really great friends with the popular people at my school but I could at least talk to them every now and again. But now I am so awkward and unsociable that all I can do is stand on the outside and look in at all of them.

This boy I like is also really good friends with the group of people I'm talking about and I just feel so...empty. There is nothing I can do to fix the mess I created and it's over. Everyone will go on after this senior year of high school and leave me in the dust, dreaming about what could have been. I don't even know what I want to be after high school. Everything is just so hopeless.

[Derryck]

Think about it this way. How is your self esteem supposed to improve if you don't put yourself out there?

[The-Chosen-Hero]

Or look at it this way. Go out there and express yourself. Stop living your life in a hole and stop caring what people think of yourself. You are not a failed attempt of being what they like. You are YOU and nothing else. So go out there and get them. Be who you really are dude