To the introverted

I was thinking about what an introverted person need to do in order to get out into the world and reap the fruits of their social environment (although this could also apply to the extroverted as well.) It seems that the best approach in these matters would be a seed-planting method. To place small seeds in the community and see if it blooms into something. For example, talking to some random person in class, help a person out in the streets, make a joke to your waitress. The point is that you never know what the consequences will be. For all you know, this person can be your next best friend, your new lover or your mentor. Not only that, but it could be one of their acquaintances that is the person that you are looking for. Plants seeds and see how they fare, make sure you water them every now and then. Be sure to do this as often as you can, for when you plant seeds, you don't plant one and wait, you plant many so as to be sure to get at least one.

It might also be that you are someone that one of your seeds (or acquaintance of) is looking for. Don't wait until they come to you, plant the seeds of Good and Friendship and something will surely grow eventually. It's all in the way you look at things and less the way things (or, you know, people) look at you.

So go out and plant those seeds, see how it goes. What do you have to lose?