All, doing a 5 minute freewrite. Thank you for reading.
Mary is always afraid of talking to and interacting with people in a big crowd and had been single all her life. She lack confidence and tells herself that she does not appeal to them. However with her close friends, Mary is a totally different person. She feels super relaxed and always ready to chit chat and share her day with her friends.
And her group of friends told her to just be herself when in bigger groups or places that she is not familiar with. She is not out there to try to impress. It is more to let her inner self be discovered rather than forcing something out and becoming awkward.
And her friends told her, no pressure and the key is really to just be comfortable and everything will flow.