Social Anxiety Blogs

I've had social anxiety for a long time now. Some days I spend several minutes just pacing back and forth sometimes I even do it the whole day and I realize now it's because I yearn to spend all the time with friends or talking on the phone during that time wasted. I guess you could say that it takes so much out of me every week because I'm that kinda person who looks to go out on the town you know have a few drinks meet new people go to concerts, movies, shows with other people but all that extreme shyness that I face just keeps me away from the social scene and I have no idea what to do about it anymore. I've become a very optimistic person but I'm also the person who likes to meet up with friends during the weekend and it just kills me that I don't have such opportunities. And so I wallow around during the weekdays not being able to focus on anything. Believe it or not it has affected my life in so many ways. I would like to become outgoing or the life of the party someday but looks like I have a long road ahead of me. I'm only 24 years old and I feel like this social anxiety/shyness is causing me to miss out on a lot. I'm always on facebook spending hours sometimes shuffling through others photos taken at bars and at clubs with good friends and I guess I do this because I want what they have so badly but I just can't have it due to all this anxiety that I face when I'm on the social scene.