Fears When I was a teen I was very shy. I had problems to hold a conversation even with my best friend, and some day she told me that we should prepare a paper with some topics to talk about when we were toguether. It was embarasing, it's difficult to be next to a person and don't have the courage to talk to them. I'm not sure when the things changed, I think it started 10 years ago when I worked as a seller, at the beggining it was very hard to talk to a client and even worst to try to convice them to buy something, but with the practice the fear started decreasing. I'm still an average seller (and I don't care, I don't work as a seller anymore), but now I can hold a conversation with my friends, my family and even with people in the bus or the street, and that's enought for me. I guess sometimes the stress and the pressure are good because we are compelled to face our fears and when we do that, good things happen.