Quote: (10-19-2014 10:22 PM)Courage Reborn Wrote:
This post hit a nerve for me.
Ever since getting into the game 10 years ago, I've slowly gone from cool, to nearly ice cold. Deficient? I don't know. I do know that I will never open up emotionally unless she's exceptional. And most women don't act right anymore.
Am I expecting too much? 10 years ago my standards would have been pretty normal. But thanks to the red pill, I keep getting success, so fuck settling. I can afford to keep gunning for top quality a little longer.
Sustained success in the game comes at a cost, as Nomad said. I'm addicted to novelty, sure. But for the right girl, I would quit cold turkey. No doubt in my mind.
"The right girl"...the final sliver of blue-pill hope I'm still grasping at when I make an approach. I refuse to let go. A life without hope is not worth living.
In 'Mans Search for Meaning', we learned that the struggle itself defines us. In suffering, we find purpose. From 'Way of the Superior Man', it is not the result of our work which makes us fulfilled, but in doing the work itself.
The price is a bitch. But the red pill has made me a better man. It's heightened my bar for quality. It's made me less tolerant of bad behavior, and better equipped to correct it. I can understand my woman better than she understands herself.
Yes, swallowing the red pill comes at a cost. But I will choose it over the helplessness & fear of the unknown I had 10 years ago. I stared into the abyss, and explored that dark side of human nature. Yes, now I know the devil. And learned to go toe to toe with the motherfucker.
I understand what you are saying, but while my experience has been similar, it's felt nothing but positive to go down that path.
First, I live in a world of self-honest now. I am honest about each woman's true value and I treat her accordingly, rather than mentally inflating her worth because I desperately want her to be the one.
Second, by realize how little women offer in terms of real friendship, I've learned to value and make an effort to achieve strong male friendships (no homo).
Sure, it may be disappointing to accept that a woman can never complete you, but they were never meant to and no previous societies ever thought that they could. Only because of the more modern influence of Hollywood type films and media, do we ever consider this a possibility.
Therefore, at the most, I can be disappointed that the lie isn't true.
In the end, however, I've discovered something that is much better than the lie ever was. There's no greater satisfaction than being in a community with other men who do not believe the lie.
That's the real life.