What would be a more comfortable way for you to approach new things? Serious question - you say you’re too timid to try these things, which I totally understand.
What do you feel would be an easy way to ease you into new experiences? Someone to help you along? An experience in a medium or setting you’re comfortable in?
This is really the big problem of our time. Old sources of meaning have fallen apart (livelihood, family, community) and I see so many people with a similar sense of emptiness.