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That is naive at the least and arrogant at the most. Do you think everyone other than yourself has an easy time improving their lives? That somehow the amount of work you need to do is so much more than others?
Yeah sorry, i wrote this while having a very bad day and when things got to me i tend to speak stupid stuff without caring.

The thing is, sometimes i feel really weak that some easy task seemed hard for me to do and when i look at other people, they seemed to do it easily and sometimes they tried to bring me down. This depressed me for a very long time but right now i'm hanging on.
 
Maybe she's worth my time?
My heart stutters when I think of this girl. I hate when it happens because it ****ing hurts. Physically not mentally.




That is naive at the least and arrogant at the most. Do you think everyone other than yourself has an easy time improving their lives? That somehow the amount of work you need to do is so much more than others?

That's how life works. Some have it easy, some don't. Some work hard, others not as much, or not at all.

Some slave their ass off to get just a slice of satisfaction, others barely move a muscle and have instant gratification.
 
Some slave their ass off to get just a slice of satisfaction, others barely move a muscle and have instant gratification.
And anyone living in a first world country, where you're utterly unlikely to encounter starvation, homelessness, epidemics, civil wars and what not, is so much closer to the latter than the former.

We all want more, that's human nature. Thing is, if you're able to sit down after a bad day and go onto your favourite forum on the internet to vent, you're probably better of than the majority of people. That's not to say that you should always be content with what you have or never aspire to more; just... Don't forget that you're one of those who have it easy. Could be better, could be worse. Could be a lot worse.

As they say, always look on the bright side.
 
True, i always try looking at the bright side. The thing is, there are some days where you just kinda flip off no matter how patient you are.
 
Interesting.

I ran into her at the SF zoo. I guess she was working on her Bio project like I was. (Didn't finish it, so I have to go again tomorrow.)

She avoided me. It's frustrating, but I guess it's no big deal.

I don't know why some people avoid confrontation from those who like them. This will make class excruciating, especially since I sit next to her.

Time to think.

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As if a five hour walk on a beach wasn't enough time to think. I can kind of take rejection, but avoidance leaves too many unanswered questions.

Like a book that's missing the last few pages.
 
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Being avoided just makes me rage. I just want to know what the hell I did to cause someone to avoid me.

If it's a guy, I couldn't give two :censored:s but if it's a girl, and it's in a small campus, and we both have more or less the same schedules...

Pisses me off to no end..
 
Being avoided just makes me rage. I just want to know what the hell I did to cause someone to avoid me.

If it's a guy, I couldn't give two :censored:s but if it's a girl, and it's in a small campus, and we both have more or less the same schedules...

Pisses me off to no end..

Well sometimes even if it's a girl, i wouldn't give a crap about it if i'm pissed enough about being avoided for no reason. Except if that girl is someone very important to me.
 
Hey GTP. I need help. I haven't spent too much time with my partner lately, too much **** going on all the time for the past 6 months. I feel like I'm getting disconnected and like I'm losing it and the relationship lately.

I brought it up and talked about it and we seem to gotten to a point where we agree to make a lot more time for each other but I know this won't happen in one night. And I'm really hoping this summer is a lot better. Also we are both in university.

What are some things I could do to maybe freshen things up a bit. Besides going on more dates and stuff. Also to those of you who maybe can give me tips to make a relationship work in university, I'd really appreciate it. We study at different universities but they are just 5 minutes apart in car. But that hasn't been an issue. The issue is the amount of things usually we both have to do and I can never get it to sync the **** up for once. Has anyone here gone through this and beat the little demon that sometimes university can be?

Also I've been with this person for 1 year and 8 months. I've honestly loved every second and you'll have to pardon me for being all cheesy and too lovey dovey haha but I really want a marriage to come out of this since we both kinda want to get married. But this can't happen if we are too busy to see each other all the time.
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Thanks for taking your time to read this. Any comment will be appreciated!
 
One thing I've learned in my 40 plus years on this planet is that you're always better off when it's you that makes the decisions. If you feel you're being avoided and don't know why, don't wait around to find out. Don't leave something up to someone else. Either get an explanation or decide to move on. Once you make a decision either way you can act on it. If you sit around waiting for the decision to be made for you, you don't go anywhere.
 
One thing I've learned in my 40 plus years on this planet is that you're always better off when it's you that makes the decisions. If you feel you're being avoided and don't know why, don't wait around to find out. Don't leave something up to someone else. Either get an explanation or decide to move on. Once you make a decision either way you can act on it. If you sit around waiting for the decision to be made for you, you don't go anywhere.

Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I do agree with that sentiment really.

Maybe I should make clear that my partner does pay a lot of attention to me whenever it's possible to do so. And lately my lover has been really pulling all the stops. Cutting class, not going to activities just to be with me. I know there is a lot of mutual care, I really know that the love between us is well, a lot.

And believe me when I say that neither of us want to leave this. This is why in August when our classes start again and stuff we are going cut on activities so we can spend time together a lot more often. So I actually did a few days ago what you said of getting an explanation instead of waiting. Something really good of us that I have to admit is that we don't stay quiet about anything. If something bothers either one of us we talk about it asap.

I guess I just want to know if there should be a certain way I should try to run things with my partner from now on. And if you got any tips in how to juggle life's responsibilities and the relationship.

I guess that what I want to say is that I want to work to live. Not live to work. I rather have less money and stuff if it means more time for the relationship. I don't care about the money or "status". I care about my our happiness in this. You know what I mean?
 
There is not much I can tell you, really. Life can be a bitch.

Only way to go about it is to cut spare time activities the two of you are not doing together. Might help a lot already. Both of you being serious about the relationship, have you considered moving in together? That naturally means spending more time with each other.

Also, I don't know about going on more dates. Using what little time you have for some quality time in privat is what I'm doing. Situation with my girl isn't that much different, to be honest. Biggest question is how much the two of you want it to work.

Oh, one more thing: there will be times in your life when it feels like you live to work, not the other way around. I'm dealing with a six-day week at the moment. Not exactly nice, but it's an investment I'm willing to make and it'll pass.

Best of luck to you both, in any case 👍
 
Today I was on the train and three girls come and sit next to me and randomly start flirting with me for no reason ? I didn't know them at all and have never seen them before. When they talked to me they talked more with slang word street stuff and very suggestive with body language. I didn't say much at all and it didn't get anywhere because I got off at my station and I think they are to young for me I'm 24 they look 18. I didn't like their behaviour at all or the way they talked to me very strange day.

I'm looking for a nicer women who is more quite and has a smile on her face and likes to listen and has good manners.
 
I'm looking for a nicer women who is more quite and has a smile on her face and likes to listen and has good manners.
Good luck.

I've found a girl like that, but I'm not sure if I can even make things work out with her.

Tomorrow is the last day of class before our final, so I'm just going to ask her for her number and see if she wants to study together. If she says yes, I'll probably drop a few nickels and dimes on food for her. ($$$$)

She straight up avoided me when I ran into her in public, but now that I've thought about it, I can't be too sure on what her motives were. May as well try and see what happens. Can't get mad at her if she says no.. I have nothing on some of these guys walking around so I can't be surprised if the outcome is something that I didn't expect.
 
It has been a crazy long time since I posted on GTP at all! Junior year has been insane! I focused less on getting a relationship, and focused more on being myself. Everything just kind of came to me. It's weird like that.

Ex. #1 started hating me through the middle of the year for some reason. I had never talked to her much really. She was pretty abusive, and I was an idiot for sticking by it. She tried to get all our mutual friends to stop hanging out with me, essentially giving an ultimatum that they stay with me, or stay with her. That went about as well as you think it did. I have no idea why she thought it would be a good idea.

Ex. #2 is dating one of my good friends. In fact I pushed for it. They truly are perfect together! In a way it made me more happy about myself. It felt like I grew up a bit, and that is always nice.

All that was left was single Crispy, and I like single Crispy. Parts of me definitely yearn for a counterpart while seeing other couples, but that dies away when I start having fun again. You get to chase a lot of girls. Sophomores seem particularly enamoured with us Juniors, which makes all my friends laugh. Being single in High School is really fun for me!

But now it's summer time. Like some '80s coming of age movie a girl has showed up right before summer time, with a particular interest in me. It all happened when one of my sophomore friends needed a ride to a job interview, and her friend would need to be there. The first time I saw her my heart skipped a beat, she was very pretty. I thought that about a lot of girls though, dismissing most of them as "out of my league". I gave them a ride, impressing the ladies and the neighbors with my "track day bro" brake pads singing at every stop sign.

I went to go pick them up only this time I brought an adequate car for three people. I definitely noticed that she changed into a crop top, and definitely noticed that our mutual friend made it a point for her to sit in the front next to me. I gave it no other thought because I'm a guy and guys are oblivious. :lol:

Later I get a text from my friend saying that "[Other girl] thinks you're hot". This definitely took me by surprise. Honestly it put a pretty big smile on my face. I really don't get that, like ever. It's very rare for the girl to make a first move, but surprises are everywhere. The next day our mutual friend sent her number my way. I texted her a bit and she is a pretty cool person from the brief conversation we had.

So now I find myself at a crossroads. I don't know if her feelings have dissipated over the two days, although my friend made it a big point to tell me that the girl really seems to like me. Who knows! Maybe things will continue being the same as they have been. Living up life as a single guy. Maybe girlfriend experience number 3 is just over the hill. It's just one big surprise, which honestly makes life so fun for me. Everyday has it's surprises, no matter how big or small.

Damn this is like cheesy post number 5 that I've created in this thread. Sorry to flood pages here and there with this kind of stuff!
 
It has been a crazy long time since I posted on GTP at all! Junior year has been insane!
Well, the answer is always Miata, right?

Dude, just enjoy the time that you have in high-school. One thing I wish I would've done during high-school was focus on myself, but if you find someone wanting in on your awesomeness, let them in.

One thing I will advise in the relationship is to treat her like a really close friend. (You should know what I mean.) When things get serious in high-school, it usually falls apart after a few months, but if you focus on maintaining the relationship and friendship, you'll have a potential partner and friend for a REALLY long time. Sway away from cheesy conflicts, and you should be 100%.

If you're coming back home from college to a relationship that has potential to work intimately, you probably did something right.
 
Talked to her some more, learned she likes karting. I guess one day I'll take her to the real 90mph shifter karts over here! :lol:

We may be hanging out tomorrow. We shall see how things go!
 
So... a thing happened to me yesterday.

I was waiting for my tram to arrive as I was coming back home from university. People around and stuff, crowded city, boo-hoo, you know the story. And I see this one girl, gorgeous as all hell. You're not understanding. One of those girls you wouldn't call 'hot' but 'beautiful' instead, because she deserves it. Our eyes met a few times and my tram has just arrived. As an (pre)alpha male, my head naturally was turning in her direction as my tram was leaving its stop.

She flipped me off for that.
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I was so shocked that I actually felt a quick (but admittedly strong) shiver all over my torso.

"Ohhh he looked at me, I should give him the finger because I don't have the courage to do it in the face of a 6'3 dude."

And no, I am not making this up. Why the hell did I receive the blessing/greeting of the middle finger for basically complimenting her looks? :D I didn't even smile or look at her with the "Ohhhh I'd tap that!"-face:odd:
 
Just a general observation, not directed to anyone in particular, but a lot of you guys are in your head too much. You have too much time on your hands and do too much thinking about yourselves and your situations. A long time ago an old boss of mine who became a good friend, used to say to me all the time after I would share things with him much like you guys do here, "get out of your head". What he meant of course was, "stop thinking so much and start doing". Be active, get out in the community and do things, be so busy that you just drop at the end of every day. Volunteer at a food bank or at a church, take up running, go to the gym, take a night class, knock on a your single mom neighbours' door and offer to cut her grass or plant some flowers. Sit and talk to a homeless man, go to the nearest old folks home and take a senior for a walk or play cards with them or shuffleboard, offer to take your Grandmother to lunch, play backgammon with your Grandpa. There are literally thousands of things you could do where you can get out and meet people and have a busy and fulfulling life.

If you want to relate it all back to relationships, women who are confident and attractive and have their stuff together, generally aren't interested in angst filled, over-thinkers with too much time on their hands. They are generally attracted to men that are happy, busy, active, positive, cheerful etc. You guys think and worry way too much about what women think, what they want, whether they like you or not etc. Forget that stuff, there's nothing you can do about it and worrying about it won't help. You should envision yourself as a friggin' tornado, sweeping up everything in your path. Women will want to be with you if you are busy being busy, busy being happy, busy doing good things, busy with your friends. They want you to be busy because they like that excitement of being with someone who is busy, so long as you have some quality time with them every week. They are even more attracted to busy guys than guys with all the time in the world to focus on them because they have lives too, at least the ones you want to be with do. They have friends, they have family, they have work, they have school.

Be busy, be active, volunteer your time, get a second job. The more you are out there, the more people you meet, the more active you are, the more successful you will be in relationships. Focus on building yourself, giving back to others less fortunate, work on your physique, your mental toughness, your skillset. Always be growing and developing. Because it works!
 
Just a general observation, not directed to anyone in particular, but a lot of you guys are in your head too much.
Good stuff, and it's also true.

As much as we want to dwell and sit down, we just have to get up and do more, and that ties back with some of us (including me) getting caught up on particular women too much. If given too much time to think, we just start to tear ourselves apart thinking up unrealistic situations and things with impossible odds.

I guess it'd be a good time to speak on what happened to me a couple of days ago. I decided to just ask the classmate I've been crushing on for a good while for her number, and we just went to study and get some food afterwards. Turns out she's married to a guy who's actually doing something with himself, and she's currently doing much more than any other girl around my age group is doing.

You know, I used to tell myself and others that overthinking is the worst thing to do in a relationship, but there I was, overthinking and thinking of things that would have impossible odds. I didn't take into consideration that she was married or had a boyfriend. Just a waste of energy on my part. All of the energy that I spent on that whole situation could have been put towards something else. There have been only a few moments where I've been so focused on a woman, but this time was something different. What you've said penso, is what I've taken away from this.

People, especially women, want to be around/with someone who is actually doing something with their time. If many of the girls we have liked were to see the things that we've been posting on here, they'd probably laugh inside. (either that, or they'd probably swoon? I doubt the last) I feel like a 🤬 fool looking back at some of the stuff I've said.

At-least it's safe to say that many women at my college weren't as perfect as her, as I will have a tough time getting into another situation like this one.

I guess all I can do is move on and learn from this. What an experience. (There is a little more that I'd like to say about what happened, but I think that's enough for a while, just enough.)

👍
 
I've found that the more that you focus on improving yourself, the more people will gravitate towards you. People especially like charismatic people.

I've felt like s:censored:t the past couple of days. Some of you might've seen my latest post about going on a date. That didn't work out because of severe weather. That gave me some time to think though. It wasn't until a day later when I was hit hard by anxiety. Part of it is I just don't want to date. I have one more summer, and one more year of school. That's it. I want to experience that without the added weight of a relationship, after all the most fun I've had was the second semester of Sophomore year and of course this year.

So the whole idea of being in a relationship again freaked me out so I shoved those feelings deep. Maybe it's just temporary, maybe it's nothing. This is the battle I was having in my mind up until a few hours ago. There's a girl in my ASL class that I have been crushing on a bit this semester, but wouldn't admit it even to myself. We both make fun of each other and stuff, and my friend often takes her phone. He did it again today except today something was really wrong and she was very upset about it. All I could think about was how I had a part in hurting her feelings and it made me feel like a massive 🤬 . For the entire class period that is all I could think about, nothing else. It lead me to realize that I do have feelings for her and have for quite a long time. This only made me feel worse because the only result is that someone is going to get hurt, and it won't be me.

I don't know, it seems a lot like I'm overthinking it, but I've really never been put in a position where I would hurt someone else. I can't just start a relationship where I have feelings for another person, that is just completely unfair. It seems no matter what I'll end up hurting this girl, which makes me feel terrible.

Like I said I wouldn't date the girl I have feelings for anyway. I don't want to date, I know that now. It's just really bothering me because I have no idea how to go about it, and I know it will hurt someone else.

So, yay for high school dating drama? :lol:
 
So I need some help....this girl I've been dating for a while all of a sudden stopped texting me, and I don't know what I did wrong, what should I do? :scared: We just hung out last week and everything was fine...
 

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