Ignoring the politics of the world does not mean its consequences would skip you.
It makes you even more prone to the evils of it because you have no knowledge or ideas on how it can affect your daily life.
Political apathy is more suicidal than a bomb strapped to your chest.
i actually feed on intelligence. i love it when people know a lot about a lot of things, such as music, films, religion, beliefs, and history. i love listening to people's opinions. i want to suck in all these smart things like a sponge.
You should have things you don't do, places you don't go to, substances you don't take, words you don't say
By all means, have Principles and Standards.
I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.
This morning, while interrogating myself, I found that I have never approached any lady with the intention of sleeping with her and then used the guise of a relationship to conceal what it was I truly wanted. That is quite a crude thing to do anyway given that she is not a prostitute.
Not that a relationship was the first thing I approached women for. I mean, who meets a woman for the first time, knows absolutely nothing about her and immediately wants a relationship? The point is that whatever the approach was, it was never rooted in deceit. It was always, let’s see where this leads, with honesty.
And if it happened to be a case of direct sexual interest, especially after getting to know the person and realizing that beyond physical attraction there was very little else drawing me to her, then that too was direct. No disguises. No relationship used as bait. No elaborate performance intended to secure a result that honesty could not.
I have found that many men do not possess this courage. They do not have the courage to state honestly what they want and then accept whatever consequences follow from that admission. Perhaps that is why subterfuge has become so common. Perhaps that is why so many women have come to see men as deceivers. A person repeatedly lied to eventually stops treating deception as an exception and begins treating it as the rule.
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if men were simply honest from the outset. Not brutally honest in the way people often use honesty as an excuse for cruelty, but honest about intention. Honest about desire. Honest about what exactly they are seeking. I suspect we would see far fewer accusations of manipulation and perhaps even a dramatic reduction in what we now call relationship heartbreaks. After all, many heartbreaks are not born from love ending. They are born from discovering that love was never what was being offered in the first place.
CONFIDENCEMAXXING
Be egoistical. You are the priority. Straight posture. Don’t look around unnecessarily. Sculpt your body. Dress well. Focus on your mission. Become a mystery to others. Keep most things to yourself. Enter the room as if everyone were waiting for you. Make yourself comfortable. Speak slowly. Fear nothing. Don’t fake emotions. Make others want to copy your persona.
You can achieve anything you want if you act as you have already got it.
Confident people are not born that way.
It becomes their second nature.
Never been good at playing “dating games.” Real life tends to pull me in and often takes over. I’m not enthusiastic about the prospect of a relationship; I enjoy women.
My interest can be present one moment and gone shortly after. So if an interaction becomes complicated, I tend to withdraw. There’s usually a lot demanding my attention, and I naturally prefer to focus on those things instead.