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But HOW and WHY does 'The feeling' stop you of making another friend or having the best convo ever?!
I wanted to share this with ya'll!
You paint a great picture, one that I'm very familiar with as I take the bus to college.
To answer your above question. It all extends back to the times we were living in tribes. There were roughly only 50'000 people living on the planet, and if a guy approached the wrong woman, whether she be involved with someone or in a close social circle with the leader of a tribe, that said man would have his head smashed in and would be killed, JUST because he approached a girl.
This happened so often, that we developed a brain circuit to feel fear when walking up, and talking to someone knew. It evolved to protect us, unfortunately, in this day and age our brain circuit, and our evolution is outdated for the world that we live in, so we still feel this fear when approaching.
Woman have the same evolutionary circuit for having sex, which is why we sometimes have to deal with Last Minute Resistance.