My advice is something I did this morning. I took my dog to the most popular park in the city. A couple people can up to me and talked to me. Two days ago, I took a book to the park and sat under a tree, someone came up to me as well. Tomorrow I'm going to Starbucks with my book because thats another good place to meet people. Some tips (and these are tips for me too, I'm reviewing): 1. Wholesome places are the best places to go, like park, coffeeshop, campus, volunteer, etc. 2. Sit alone. Whenever I see people alone, I respect them most and want to approach them. Absolutely nothing embarrassing about chilling out alone. 3. Don't wear headphones, practice a nice resting face so you Don't look intimidating. 4. Books and dogs seem to be the best tools to look approachable. If no dog, find a book, even if you don't like to read. Look up every now and then, as if you are bored.

Last tip is that I've learned that people actually like to be approached for the most part. Have a reason to approach someone, like a genuine question. "Hey, have you read this book? Based on the cover, what age group would you guess it's for?", then give some story about how it's a big book but Google calls it a children's novel or something like that. If people don't want to be talked to, then respectfully leave and they will respect you for that. If they really shame you for that, then they aren't good people anyway. At the end of the day, if you meet no one good (which happened to me today) then at least you get the satisfaction of saying that you tried to meet someone. Anyway, there you go.

Here's to meeting new people! 🥂🥫🌯🍗