I too like dyed hair

Meh, her hair is lovely, but that is hardly enough to simply decide if I wish to even talk to her much less maintain such conversations.

Do it.

Allow me to translate the previous message:

"She is quite lovely, yes, but I am the unpopular kid at school who has extreme issues dealing with emotions, so they either appear in a fashion of self-hatred which gets directed at said person or just a false image of not caring although I care greatly. I know not how to properly converse with people I do not care for much less people I do. My only experience with such situations tend to be completely out of the norm or through speaking of obscure facts and ideas on how to kill people."

I’ve been the same Spidey. I ended up with the motto “screw it and do it” What do you have to lose?

My fragile ego that is figuratively the size of a mountain yet cracks under a feather. Plus I probably won't even like the girl - I've never even seen nor heard her talk. She kinda just sits there wearing ear buds all day, so she likely has some kind of mental illness that allows the school to allow her to wear headphones like I do.

It just occurred to me that the chances of her using this site are way too high for my liking.

Spidey' I’ve been there. Trust me when I say, you just have to. Stop thinking of what may go wrong. Don’t think of how scared you are. Do it. It sounds hard, it is. But it’s also easy.

Once you do it it gets easier. Fake courage.

...You don't fake courage. You fake bravery. Bravery is an action while courage is an emotion.

You can fake emotions

Emotions can be faked. I used to do it a lot.

You can fake the actions it makes you take, but the emotions you feel cannot be. You can pretend to be happy, but that doesn't make you happy.

Still do a little.

Acting. I’ve done theatre and I can fake emotions to the point where nobody can tell if I am actually feeling it. Sell it in my eyes, my voice, my being. Emotions are just actions based on thoughts.

Emotions influence thoughts and are uncontrollable in the short term. You cannot actively force yourself to feel something on a whim.

Yes I can. I can break down crying, scream in unbridled anger, and in a literal blink, be cheery me again. Point aside, talk to her. You have nothing to lose. You’ve said she seems a little like you. Make a friend.

Being a good liar also helps with faking emotions

there go my secrets.

Right now, I have my short, curly brown hair dyed with purple streaks, and it looks kickass IMO. Especially in a school filled with other girls with the same exact haircut: straight and blonde, middle-back length.

Well, that's rather... cold of you.