For one, I commend you gaining the level of self love you have gained. It’s something 92.87% of people in this world never get to experience (I just pulled that stat out of nowhere, don’t trust it )
Now, when part of self love is loving yourself when you fail. Loving your thoughts, no matter how boring they might seem. Loving yourself when you get rejected. That is when you really win the game and gain true wholeness. True self love. It is when you learn to love yourself at your worst.
I think you still can. The fact you’re going out there, approaching people, talking and trying… goes to show that you’ve grown quite a lot. That’s incredible and worth feeling amazing about. Like sure, you got rejected by the cute girl you approached but… you approached a cute girl! Every single time you do that, you gain more courage and resilience to rejection. And in that resilience and courage, your mind will begin to naturally release from nervousness (brain fog) and just become fully in flow and just flow with interesting dialogue!
The biggest thing with beginning to be social is that, it is going to take practice. But as with anything, the more you do it, the better and more natural you become. Look at as an RPG, your social stat is like level 1 right now and the more you socialize, the more it levels up. It’s inevitable.
And dude, I got to tell you, you are doing better than 96.43% (another made up statistic lol) of guys out there that are also feeling lonely but… are doing absolutely nothing about it. So that is certainly something to love and appreciate.
That being said, now let’s get down to business: being an interesting conversationalist. I have some tips here.
But before I do, I must ask… what are some things you enjoy or are into? Passionate about? What kind of things do you like to listen to people talk about? What kind of things would you like to say to people? If you were the best conversationalist in the world, what would you be like, what kind of things would you say and how would you make people feel?