“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”

                                                      -Shirley MacLaine

For this weeks blog we were to do something that pushes us outside of your comfort zone. Whether it be academic, or social, and we are to blog about the experience. A lot of people probably won’t thing this is stepping out of your comfort zone, but to me it was.

My aunt tried teaching me this past summer how to play pool. I have always been a terrible pool player and I have no idea why, I just can’t get the hang of it. Not only did my aunt beat me but all her old friends did and they thought it was hilarious. I swore I would never play pool again since I always get continuously beat at by people. So today was time for a change. I went into the pool room without looking back and decided to play a game with some people. Yes, I was completely terrible but I did not care. I had a lot of fun and just tried my hardest. Even though I said I would never play again of course I found myself playing again.
I would define myself as an outgoing person but with only some things. I find that and have been told that I give off a shy personality but don’t be fooled by that. I am a really loud person and not afraid to try things. Pool was just one thing I did not like to do but I tried it again. I pushed outside of my comfort zone considering I’m always embarrassed playing pool since i’m terrible at it. What this week’s blog taught me was that pushing out of your comfort zone is not as bad as it seems. Most people are afraid of embarrassing themselves in front of others but you just have to learn to not care. When people stop caring what other people think then they can really act themselves.