[spaceman_2020]

What would be a more comfortable way for you to approach new things? Serious question - you say you’re too timid to try these things, which I totally understand.

What do you feel would be an easy way to ease you into new experiences? Someone to help you along? An experience in a medium or setting you’re comfortable in?

This is really the big problem of our time. Old sources of meaning have fallen apart (livelihood, family, community) and I see so many people with a similar sense of emptiness.

[solumunus]

> Serious question - you say you’re too timid to try these things, which I totally understand.

They didn't say that at all. They're saying they have no desire to do those things. Even if you injected them with all the confidence in the world they would never walk in that direction. You're completely misunderstanding them.

[cinntaile]

> I'm too timid to try these things

They did say that.

[annyeonghada]

>It's not like [...] and I'm too timid to try these things

No, the commenter said s/he was not too timid to try, it was the lack of desire to try new things that was the obstacle.

[cinntaile]

Right, I misread.