- Joined
- Jul 23, 2017
- Messages
- 790
Struggled with severe approach anxiety today.
Found myself literally paralyzed to approach even one girl.
Although I did lay a girl not even two weeks ago.
That said, I threw myself in the water and started hitting on girls at the mall despite almost succumbing to a panic attack, especially before the first approach.
Well, turns out, girls aren't that scary after all (who would have thought?)
More importantly, as I walked back home with a satisfied smile and 3 phone numbers out of 4 approaches, this simple truth occured once again:
No action = 0% chance of anything happening.
Approach one girl or heck, just even smiling at one = A non-zero chance at something magical happening.
When all else fails in the face of approach anxiety, at least knowing that doing something, anything, still puts you at a non-zero probability.
There's something incredibly soothing at the idea of this irrefutable fact. It lays the possiblity in its rawest form.
Non-zero is infinitely larger than zero.
That's gotta count for something.
Found myself literally paralyzed to approach even one girl.
Although I did lay a girl not even two weeks ago.
That said, I threw myself in the water and started hitting on girls at the mall despite almost succumbing to a panic attack, especially before the first approach.
Well, turns out, girls aren't that scary after all (who would have thought?)
More importantly, as I walked back home with a satisfied smile and 3 phone numbers out of 4 approaches, this simple truth occured once again:
No action = 0% chance of anything happening.
Approach one girl or heck, just even smiling at one = A non-zero chance at something magical happening.
When all else fails in the face of approach anxiety, at least knowing that doing something, anything, still puts you at a non-zero probability.
There's something incredibly soothing at the idea of this irrefutable fact. It lays the possiblity in its rawest form.
Non-zero is infinitely larger than zero.
That's gotta count for something.
Last edited:
