Yes - it's super easy to approach someone and ask him or her out for a date.
No - it takes a lot to ask one out for a date.
It takes too much thought in first mastering the guts of asking someone out, then it takes lots of planning just to find a convenient place, then a dose of courage of being out with lots of people looking at you in the company of your date. The hard bit basically just needs one to be confident of themselves, self conscious and daring. For if the urge to get to know someone out-ways your insecurities, you better go for it this is because the world is already ever judging so why should it out you down.