Thursday 16th of May:
fuck!
got only 2 approaches in today.
so I already had problems leaving the house knowing I'm gonna have to approach.
so I left my home and went to a supermarket 3min away to just get an apple before going to the city. at the self checkout I saw a cute girl and she left just before I reached the checkout. so I thought to myself 'she is really cute and might as well get my first one out of the way as quickly as possible'.
so paid for my apple, went outside, saw her in the distance (same direction I was gonna go). so followed her, ran a few times to catch up to her. and it was perfect. caught up to her in the middle of a big bridge with only a few people passing by either on bicycle or by car. so caught up to her from the side, cupped her elbow, and looked at her.
she looked at me, took of her sunglasses and airpods and I told her 'hey I saw you in the store but didn't want to approach you in there and I'm nervous now but had to catch up with you because I find you really cute'.
her reaction was a mix of not knowing what happens and being a happy about it.
so introduced myself and asked her where she went to. same direction so I said let's just walk together.
interesting thing here again was as soon as we started a normal conversation I was pretty relaxed. I talk to people all day at work and talked to a lot in my life already so that shows me it's the nervousness of not having done too many approaches so far and because after the initial approach I know her reaction already.
so we walked quite a bit, and the talk was really nice. when we reached the traffic lights where she needed to pass to get her tram I told her 'hey it was nice talking to you, we should meet up sometime to continue'.
I can't really put her reaction into words but I said to her 'you are a little overwhelmed right now' and she laughed and agreed and said that this hasn't happened to her before. so echanged numbers and I wished her a great day.
so the first one was done. I walked towards the cbd and saw that I had brown stains on the back of my white button down. that made me self conscious. so my thought was to quickly buy a new shirt but all the stores were not yet open (8:30am).
while I stood with my back to a wall in a less crowded street to check all the stores a beautiful woman walked by me. no approach invitation and she seemed somewhat bitchy/closed, but I was like she's beautiful and no one around. so walked up to her from the back and said hey and she just looked halfway and continued looking forward and walked.
that sting was short but it stinged. but it's okay.
so then my plan was to get back home and change my shirt to go back. so navigated through the cbd in a way nobody could see my back

(idk why this made me so self conscious). reached the tram station and stood there with my back to a pillar. a girl stood a few meters away and moved in my direction. she entered the tram through the same door as me. in the tram I stood with my back to the wall again. only thing in my mind was to get home and change but I still noticed her behavior. she left two stations before me and even went to stand right in front of me before leaving (so she passed the door to wait on the other side where I was).
I didn't follow her, I don't want to put it all on the stains but partly that.
so back home changed and then I didn't have much time left.
long story short I saw two more I really liked, one in the mall I quickly went to before heading to my friend to help him, but didn't approach and one when I was in the hardware store with my friend with an amazing ass and I suppose she even stayed close to us (my friend, his girlfriend, me). so yes even had a girl with us, and at the checkout I even told my friends I'm back in a minute and while they paid I walked back to find her but to be honest not totally with the intention to approach if I saw her. didn't see her.
so for the time helping my friend in his house I had bad mood.
after that went straight to work and after work drove to a different part of town to see what's up there (~9:15pm). walked through a store but and saw a cute girl on the street but didn't approach. after that went home.
so did only two approaches today.
same as the day before after two I have to figure out what it is. maybe willpower or fear.
so I suppose the challenge in the challenge is now to keep approaching after the second one still (and yes even approaching in the first place).
so had a rejection today that was probably the worst so far and an interaction that was probably the best.
today (Friday 17th of May) I don't have much time now left before work, I slept more last night since the last two night were neither good nor enough sleep but also I didn't have the hunger this morning to get up after not getting myself to approach more yesterday.
so I'm going to head out now before work to approach and after work.
let's work on that.