OK guys, I’m sorry about the delay in posting. I’m a procrastinator, through and through. I also have a lot of stuff going on. Bullshit, I know, because there is ALWAYS ENOUGH TIME. Well, I do have a little excuse. I work on computers for most of the day, and get terrible headaches due to my chronic longsightedness – I was designed to be a hunter. So when I come home in the evening I don’t want to touch a computer. Anyway, I have not been following the rules of the game much recently, I got stuck in the mud at Day Nine, wherein one must approach a group of girls PLUS guys. I found this extremely difficult. That is to say my emotions told me it was difficult, when it is ridculously easy in reality, but we all do what our emotions say.
Yet I have become a thousand times more social than I was even a month ago. The cause? It’s so simple – SAYING HI TO EVERYONE. Every single person I see when I walk down the street I say hi too, especially the girls. This was the advice of Carlos Zuma, and briefly mentioned in the Game, a less outlandish take on ‘Rasputin’s’ sage opinion in the same (walk around wearing a dildo on your head, or something along those lines) Not only does it make you happier inside, but it decimates your approach anxiety. That is the right word – decimate. When you make it your mission to say hi to everyone you see during the day you quickly lose your fear of failure and embarrassment (a useful emotion at times) runs away. This is because 95% of people will NOT RESPOND. This can hurt your emotions at first, but the more you do it the more immune to rejection you become. They probably consider you crazy, but who cares?
Victories to savour: giving a girl I just met a piggy back ride to the bus stop, approaching a seated 4-set and getting told to go away, deeper relationships with co-workers. Soon, my young apprentice, you shall grow a great shell against that demon called social failure. Things that would otherwise embarrass you stop having any effect. You are socially invincible, everything is possible. That is the promise of game. You become unplugged from the matrix.
there is such a thing as strength of will which is able to haul up so exceedingly close to the wind that it saves a man’s reason, even though he remains a little queer
Kierkegaard
Saturday, July 12, 2008
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I understand screen fatigue and how it can make one reluctant to write. But I also wanted to encourage you to continue anyway. I've added you to my RSS reader, and look forward to your next installment.
That sounds pretty damn annoying. Socially awkward people trying to be less socially awkward by being even more socially awkward.
Social awkwardness is actually a construct of people who think they arn't awkward. The person doesn't understand you or the situation so you look down upon them. This story is inspiring about a human being trying to grow as a person and challenge social norms which frankly I find to be a lazy and low quality of human interaction anyways. So kudos to the author and boo to the critic.
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