How to be less shy? Practice.

You ever see Lawrence of Arabia? There's a scene where Lawrence puts a match out on his hand, and does not react. Then another man does it, and says that it hurts. Lawrence says of course it hurts, the trick is just not minding that it hurts.

Understand that the worst thing that can happen is you getting rejected. Rejection sucks. But the shitty feeling doesn't last forever. You get rejected, adjust, and move on to the next love interest. Practice this and I guarantee your fears won't end, but they won't be as bad. You'll begin to get more confident because, if she says no, you're exactly where you started. Maybe you could have done something different. Maybe she'll never be interested. Don't freak out about it. Just move on.

And chances are, rejection is going to happen a lot. This is likely to happen many times in your life, it's happened to me more times then I can count. But the times that rejection doesn't happen, well, that's what this is all about isn't it? You say you like one particular girl, but she might not want you. It sucks, but that's just how it is. If you can be friends without being romantic or catching feels, great. If not, move on. If you're really that horrible of a person that no woman will like you (1. I don't think you are and 2. this is incredibly unlikely even if you are), then you might benefit from some introspective meditation, where you consider what you're doing wrong, but it seems you've already narrowed down your problem to your anxiety and shyness. So for now, it seems focusing on improving that is the goal.

tl;dr to counter your problem requires work. Hard work. Shitloads of hard work. It's not going to be easy, but it's going to be worth it.

Want real advice? Treat them like any of other friends, if there is any attraction she will laugh at all your stupid shit, find any excuse to be around you and keep physically touching you. And remember there is no such thing as the friendzone, 1.) It just means she's not attracted to you and 2.) You can always change that with one well timed kiss.

1. That means you're in the friendzone

2. Or you could be charged for sexual assault... being physically forceful isn't the way to go.

...learn to read the situation. You sound like a virgin, "oh I don't kiss girls cause I don't want to be forceful". Within certain situations that arise, emotional flare and going for a kiss can be acceptable, even desired by both people. It's all about timing man.

And besides who in their right mind charges their friends with sexual assault? It's not like your kissing a random stranger, if she is your friend then she will most likely shrug it off or just advoid you worst case scenario.

you sound like a borderline sex offender

nothing wrong with kissing girls, but going in for a kiss without asking permission can be construed as sexual assault



worse case scenario is you get charged with sexual assault, just because someone is your friend doesn't mean they should ignore your unwanted advances. Imagine if you had a male friend who went in for a kiss with you. How would you react?

For my own advice, i suggest Down+B usually works as a counter.

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Has this guy ever kissed someone? Obviously if you go in for a kiss, she can lean back, which will show you she doesn't want to do anything. I'm sure leaning in for a kiss only to be rejected will only get the other person a bit ticked off, but nothing consisting of sexual assault lmao. Unless you literally steal a kiss from her and run away, i'm sure you won't get into too much trouble. Just a little embarrassment when she asks, "what are you doing" or some other shit.

EDIT: I just saw where you put, "Without asking for their permission". Lol because girls think it is attractive for a guy to ask "uhhhh m..m..m..may I kiss you m..m..my q..q..queen" If you cannot read the situation leading to a kiss with someone to know for a fact that they want to kiss, you are too young to be kissing or you should just stay in your little cave to spare us the embarrassment.

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