Stephen Fry has a quote that he shared on a Derren Brown show "Magic: Revenge of the Nerd"
Magic helped me, especially in high school. I was new in town and joined a new high school a month late. In high school, everyone had their little groups and i was alone in the library, it was hard and sometimes i was not even trying to make new friends. I was introduced to magic a year prior to that but was feeling very very shy to go and perform for a live audience for the first time at school. I made a new friend a month later, and while we were playing cards he decided to do a card trick but messed up. I then took the deck from him and NEVER knew that this moment was about to change the rest of my high school years ... I performed few effects for him with hands shaking uncontrollably, then couple days later... for few peoples, then for groups of people and finally ended up performing for a whole class. My reputation in school grew rapidly, they were all like "Oh he's the guy that did that". It got to a point where students were skipping classes to see me ... I performed for teacher and needless to say i got to make many many friends. That was a few years back, magic helped me because it forced me to talk when i was shy. It helped me annihilate the shyness within me, i can now talk to total strangers as if they were friends, be totally open in public areas and my friends always remind me that they were there being the specs. when it ALL started.
Highschool is about to end, there's tons of videos\photos of me performing but DAAAAAAMMMMMMMNNNNN, i'm soooo gonna miss these times ....
