1 Day 1: Realization
As all stories start, we start with the main character at his lowest point in life.
His room was as dark as the abyss, complete darkness in the middle of the day. Kareem as usual was staring at the only light source in his room at this moment like he usually does all day long. His computer screen was flashing a complete blue in his eyes.
Every once in a while a *ding* would sound from his computer and his static emotionless face will light up again. His hands work faster than his eyes as he types like it is his second nature. The human body is truly miraculous, it shapes itself to its surroundings and maximizes the output of your body to its limits depending on your activities. This can be seen in bodybuilders, and boxers and also neet's who all develop their body by the choices they make.
Kareem at the moment was talking to the childhood sweetheart that he had known since he was 10 years old. They were both 18 this year. He had always had feelings for her but never had the courage to tell her anything about their feelings, every time he wanted to something would stop him from doing so. Thoughts that never were present would flood his mind as fast as a tsunami and he would talk himself out of it.
Every interaction and text he had with her was one of the main things that kept him going in this life, his main source of happiness came from mainly 3 things: 1. Her, 2. Video games, 3. Masturbation.
Pathetic, isn't it? Even though this may look pathetic from the outside it's very apparent that most people who are in this situation don't think so themselves. Like Kareem, they say to themselves 'life is good' but ever the less a voice comes from their deeper selves and there comes the occasional thought 'man I'm so miserable, I should change myself.' These thoughts will motivate the person a little bit and get themselves up in the morning and do 10 pushups before they land themselves back into their old miserable life.
This is the reality of Kareem and many young men in the world. They live miserably and delude themselves into thinking they were self-righteous in their everyday endeavours. They satisfy themselves with the thought 'man I did 10 pushups today, I'm so tired', as they go to sleep after masturbating.
Kareem was texting his childhood crush every time he received a message he would reply instantly not wasting any time to make sure his crush doesn't go somewhere else. The desperation was clear in his messages. His childhood crush at this moment was in her room looking at his texts reading the paragraph he wrote to her that exuded awkwardness.
She replied to them with an "ok lmaoo", "yeh", "thanks". Kareem as usual was just happy that his childhood crush was texting him not noticing the clear ever-present disinterest present in her texts. He wondered what he could say to her now when she was barely responding to her.
He knew there was a very small chance he and his crush could get together since he was a loser freak that never went outside or had friends and she was about to enroll in a university on the other side of the country. If there was any chance for him to land something it had to be done by the end of September. He looked at the bottom of his computer screen where the date and time were present. *7/01/2020*. He had exactly 2 months to do something about the situation between him and his crush. He looked around himself and for the first time in many months, his eyes gained a hint of a blazing fire. His determination was the highest it was ever been in his life.
Being 18 and still not having any experience with a female Kareem went searching for videos on how to talk to girls. Further he went the more lost he became but by the end of the day he came up with a few conclusions. 1. 'How to get girls' on the internet was 95% complete bullshit, 2. he developed a basic guide on how to get good with women with the small gems he could find on the internet.
1. Look presentable, a lot of advice on the internet can be used to go from a complete 3 out of 10 in looks to an 8/10 with just grooming, a cut and some drip.
2. Be confident, being able to do things without giving a fuck and being able to do things with or without fear is paramount to being able to get to that point.
3. Do not overthink girls or life, less is more and that is how talking to a female should be. When talking come in with a frame of getting to know the other person instead of being there to get into the pants of the other human being you are talking to.
Kareem unlike others instead of delving into 'self-help' for weeks on end looking for a way to cure his awkwardness magically, instead wrote these 3 rules down and went on with his life with the most determination he has ever found in his entire life.
The first thing he had to do was to change his look. Kareem was an 18 year old, at the prime of his life, he was a 190 lb kid with messy hair that smelled like grease. His clothes were sticking to his skin because of the sweat he produced from talking to his crush over text. This seems unbelievable as you might think 'haha how do you sweat when texting' and in fact it is unbelievable, a lot of young men in this world are this down the social ladder but that does not mean they cannot come back and live a fulfilling life.
The first thing he did was leave his crush on 'seen' who was draining his vibrations and then left his room to go get a haircut from his nearby salon. He rarely came here due to the low-life lifestyle he had been thoroughly practising the last 2 years. Right before he entered the salon he remembered to be 'confident. He straightened his back, lower his shoulders, put strength into his hairline, relaxed the area between his eyes and hair destroying the wrinkles that were created a second ago and brought his hands out of his pockets. With a deep breath, he entered the saloon for the third time in his life and with this visit he had started his journey on the road as a man.
