While it’s probably good not to have a crippling fear of talking to strangers, it’s not something I really do unless I have a specific reason to. Like, a week ago I met a girl on a bus with a t-shirt that said something about tuk-tuks, which told me she’d probably been to southeast Asia and therefore probably interesting to talk to, so I commented on the shirt and that got the conversation rolling. Or if I’m at a meetup for people with shared interests, that fact is enough for me to want to talk to them and assume they want to talk to me.
While it’s probably good not to have a crippling fear of talking to strangers, it’s not something I really do unless I have a specific reason to. Like, a week ago I met a girl on a bus with a t-shirt that said something about tuk-tuks, which told me she’d probably been to southeast Asia and therefore probably interesting to talk to, so I commented on the shirt and that got the conversation rolling. Or if I’m at a meetup for people with shared interests, that fact is enough for me to want to talk to them and assume they want to talk to me.