Quote: (04-18-2017 03:09 PM)subterfuge Wrote:
Yep, that's it. I put it down to luck. But at the same time, it's kind of mindboggling!
It does feel somewhat 'unearned', but screw it! She was literally exactly the sort of girl i've been dreaming about for about a decade. Ever since I felt too old for the sort of girls that I failed to get in my youth. An angelic looking teenage girl. I see them from time to time and wish that I was younger and get angry at being so lame when I was their age and actually had a shot! It's consumed my thoughts for years, and now I finally snagged one!
I know the "unearned" feeling. With one girl it feels like I am wading through liquid concrete and I get nowhere, but with the next girl it's like a knife through butter, doing the exact same thing. Like you I have asked myself questions about what I was doing differently when I had successes vs the failures, and I can't really find any definitive answers. I think success in game is a mixture of playing the numbers to find a girl who is at least receptive to you, then not fucking it up (pulling to your place, escalating smoothly). In the middle there might be some "maybe" girls that you can with a lot of effort and skill push into "yes" territory, but those are often not worth the effort. It depends on how much extra work you have to put in for those girls and whether you think it's worth it. Because as you've experienced you can get super hot girls just by playing the numbers and escalating smoothly.
I think you just hit a "yes" girl and escalated well. I know the feeling of it being unearned but I disagree that it is actually unearned. You were the one who pushed yourself to do all those approaches and went through the pain of what seemed like endless rejections and dead ends. Without those you would have never have found the two girls you banged. For that you deserve great credit. You made it happen, no one else. Take full credit for it, it will help your confidence during the tough times that follow. You have first hand evidence that you can pull hot girls from cold approach. That is priceless going forward. You said yourself you have fantasized about getting this kind of girl for years and years up to a decade! You did it.
I know the feeling of being pissed off at myself for being so lame when I was younger as well. In high school and college, I was totally BP and scared to escalate, so even when I had opportunities with hot college girls where they did everything to give me a chance to escalate, I blew it. Now that I'm older, I don't have the access I had in college so I have to create it from cold approach, which is much harder. The upside is I am at least aware of game and how to close properly. I just wish I had known all this when I was younger. Things were also a lot different back then with genuinely nice college girls, no smartphones. There's nothing we can do about it now though and you are an example of someone making the absolute best of it. You couldn't bang girls like you just banged when you were younger but now that you know game you went ahead and did everything you could and got the result. It's easy to beat ourselves up but you've done everything you could. When I was in college I still believed in what my family told me I should do, romantic movies and all that shit, mainstream media etc. I try to tell myself that there was nothing I could do at that time to change my mind. I had to discover that for myself when I noticed a consistent pattern and realized "something is not quite right". The map I've been given doesn't match the territory. From then I discovered game.
If you're raised in an environment that shapes how you think and behave, it can take a long time to recognize the bullshit because it's so deeply embedded within us. It's normal to be pissed off that you hadn't known game sooner, but the time you discovered game is the time you discovered it, and that's that. You can't expect yourself to be RP and game aware when you're just a kid. We're all clueless growing up.
As men we're lucky that we can at least change our destiny past 30, while women decline whatever they do. It may be a bit later than you would have ideally wished for, but you can still get the hot college girls at your age and as your game gets better even improve in your quality and quantity.