Carmela Jia Ming A.

Wong

Accountancy

Overcoming Shyness

What do we mean by shyness? Shyness is a feeling of discomfort, awkwardness

and uneasy with other people specially in new situations and when dealing with
strangers. It is where you feel unconscious and unpleasant because you are having a
fear of what other people will tell or think about you. Shyness is very common nowadays
specially to teenagers but always misunderstood its meaning. According to different
American Psychological survey, individuals who are suffering shyness are increasing its
number every year so we need to give importance and understand people who are
experiencing like this.

At the very young age, parents can discover different behaviors that their child
could have and one of them is being shy. It starts when you determined that a child is
not giving any energy to the group and always want to be alone at the side of the place
or just want to stay alone in his/her own room. Shyness can be a big issue towards the
growth of a person. It can definitely be a hindrance on how he/she can cooperate to
other people. It can have so many consequences one he/she deals with other people
outside of his/her comfort zones. But for me, based on my experience I only feel
shyness at the beginning where I meet someone at first time. I am a kind of person
where you can be in good terms even for the short period of time. It is normal that you
feel uncomfortable to someone or to some stranger most likely if you don’t have any
common friends. You will doubt and think whether if he/she has a good intention of
talking to you. After knowing the person, I can now be with him/her without any
uncomfortable feeling. I can laugh and start telling stories that some how make interests
on him/her. As I told earlier, I am a kind of person that is easy to be with without uneasy
feeling. I can proudly say that this is one of my strengths as a person. It can help me in
dealing with different set of friends specially on my situation right now. I am a transferee
and I don’t have enough friends but I always put an effort to talk to my classmates in
different subjects for me to be able to catch up with the announcements and
assessments given by my professors. This can help me to bond and be known by other
students. Aside from that, I can also use this when I am working someday. I can easily
cooperate and ask questions to my fellow workers and also to my bosses.

Shyness is a very hard to overcome. You need to have a high self esteem and
always in yourself that you can. Once you doubt yourself, you will start to feel low and
you will question yourself. Be proud and loud. Always remember that you are doing
great. Just do what makes you happy and don’t the fear eat you. You can and always
will.