Ok I figured I'd post this in here to get feed back from older guys who've been where I've been.
I was first introduced to all this stuff about 4 or 5 years ago. After heavily reading, this secret world started to make sense. Why girls do what they do, and why guys have to do what they do to stay on top. We are spoon fed bull**** right from birth about just being ourselves, nice guys finish last, etc. We were all scared to leave the path because we didn't know what was out there. Finally after getting sick of it, we did... and we started our new lives from scratch. We quickly learned that the days of movie love are over. Thats Hollywood's gimmick to sell movies. Real love/dating/relationships (whatever you want to call it) is a battlefield where only the strongest survive. If you are not totally aware of your surroundings and your strengths/weakness, you are vulnerable. Sites like this taught me how to shed my weaknesses and improve my strengths. Because in the past I was running into enemy fire blindfolded with a bulls-eye on my chest. With little results to show for, insult to injury.
Over the years I've changed as well outside of the dating aspect. Maturity, or a new light thanks to living outside the box? Probably both. Change in clothes, music, new hobby's, politics, you name it. I have to say my life has been good to me so far. I have a union job, good friends, supporting family, never struggled, and I've kept out of trouble. But all of a sudden now I feel that this life is full of side effects. For starters, I get upset to fast and usually end up taking things to personal. Mainly with "fake" people. Why do they bother me? They shouldn't. Is society to blame with it's constant bombardment of cars, jewelry, anorexic beauty, and financial fantasy fiction? Sometimes I feel like the guy on the Matrix who wanted out because he missed the idea of eating steak. Every where I look, I see people desperately trying to fit in with the next over night fad. I know this will never change, but I rarely meet people who feel the way I do. Maybe it's because I'm only 23 and ahead of my time or something? Hell I already avoid college hangouts and head to places with an older crowd, mainly because I can't stand the bull****.
Last year I tried an experiment on MySpace. I took some pictures and thugged out my profile. I had a steady stream of friend requests of girls from 18-25. I took the same pictures and made a clean looking profile with some humor (in a different city of course) and I only had a few requests here and there. Now I know MySpace isn't a great scale to measure intelligent life, but it helps me make my point. It makes me think I'm in the wrong generation. Old enough to know that the younger crowd isn't my cup of tea, young enough not to be taken seriously with the older crowd. I guess this is just another hurdle of life.
Can anyone relate?
I was first introduced to all this stuff about 4 or 5 years ago. After heavily reading, this secret world started to make sense. Why girls do what they do, and why guys have to do what they do to stay on top. We are spoon fed bull**** right from birth about just being ourselves, nice guys finish last, etc. We were all scared to leave the path because we didn't know what was out there. Finally after getting sick of it, we did... and we started our new lives from scratch. We quickly learned that the days of movie love are over. Thats Hollywood's gimmick to sell movies. Real love/dating/relationships (whatever you want to call it) is a battlefield where only the strongest survive. If you are not totally aware of your surroundings and your strengths/weakness, you are vulnerable. Sites like this taught me how to shed my weaknesses and improve my strengths. Because in the past I was running into enemy fire blindfolded with a bulls-eye on my chest. With little results to show for, insult to injury.
Over the years I've changed as well outside of the dating aspect. Maturity, or a new light thanks to living outside the box? Probably both. Change in clothes, music, new hobby's, politics, you name it. I have to say my life has been good to me so far. I have a union job, good friends, supporting family, never struggled, and I've kept out of trouble. But all of a sudden now I feel that this life is full of side effects. For starters, I get upset to fast and usually end up taking things to personal. Mainly with "fake" people. Why do they bother me? They shouldn't. Is society to blame with it's constant bombardment of cars, jewelry, anorexic beauty, and financial fantasy fiction? Sometimes I feel like the guy on the Matrix who wanted out because he missed the idea of eating steak. Every where I look, I see people desperately trying to fit in with the next over night fad. I know this will never change, but I rarely meet people who feel the way I do. Maybe it's because I'm only 23 and ahead of my time or something? Hell I already avoid college hangouts and head to places with an older crowd, mainly because I can't stand the bull****.
Last year I tried an experiment on MySpace. I took some pictures and thugged out my profile. I had a steady stream of friend requests of girls from 18-25. I took the same pictures and made a clean looking profile with some humor (in a different city of course) and I only had a few requests here and there. Now I know MySpace isn't a great scale to measure intelligent life, but it helps me make my point. It makes me think I'm in the wrong generation. Old enough to know that the younger crowd isn't my cup of tea, young enough not to be taken seriously with the older crowd. I guess this is just another hurdle of life.
Can anyone relate?