>>81629123If you are going to try, try now and not later. As another anon said social expectations are much lower for a 19 y.o. than a 29-30+ guy.
You still have the opportunity to make it.
A mentality of outcome independence can help a lot. If you feel like you'll end up like I did just go try before you resign yourself.
A lot of young people get caught up in blackpill/mgtow nonsense. Just because a lot of people failed doesn't mean it's not worth trying.
At least when you are 30 you can say "hey I tried and I got brutally fucked".
Does that sound bad? Sure.
Imagine being 30 and saying "well I never shot my shot, but I'm sure it wouldn't have mattered".
I say this genuinely. I do not regret anything I did, no matter how cringe, embarrassing, humiliating or painful it was. All my regrets are things I didn't do.
Going to college with a gelled back hair and dressed all nicely, arriving at college day 1 at 04:00 so I'm literally the first guy at the gates and then FIRM HANDSHAKING every dude that walked in?
Was it cringe? Yeah. Regret it? No.
I was tolerated for a long time because I brought the initial groups together. Had I arrived late I wouldn't have had the balls to even approach the groups that already form naturally in situations like that.
I do regret saying NO to a lot of things out of fear or shame. Thinking I didn't have the social skills or that it would be awkward that people must have invited me out of pity.
I didn't pursue a lot of hobbies either, same reason, shame and fear.
The issue is that after a lot of rejection it really shaped me as I mentioned before. I became more quite and reserved, don't dare to be authentic. I mask and hide my true thoughts. I disengage a lot.
Normies say the wildest things sometimes and it works for them. Didn't work for me long term. It might for you.
But if it doesn't at least you will be justified. You can always be a loser at 30.