In my daily devotional reading for today Joyce Meyer discusses how you may feel timid and shy but you can walk boldly through life. This is something that I have really struggled with throughout my life. I am almost always shy round people that I do not know and when in a situation that I do not feel comfortable in I am timid and I present myself this way. For a while I really struggled with the fact that I was this way. I would tell myself that I need to be different. Then one day I started to really think about it. If this is me by nature then I should not necessarily beat myself up for it, I need to embrace who I am. I do think that I am called to be more outgoing than I am and I believe most of my reason for being is shy is fear. I am trying to get over my fear by putting myself outside of my comfort zone and trying slowly to get over the fear in a positive way without beating myself up. We do not have to remain the same, we are able to change but we need to look for positive healthily ways instead of having negative thoughts and getting mad at ourselves for the way that we are.