Path to Greatness - Journal

[Shannon]

Yeah man I should stop lying. But I never told them I currently have a girlfriend. Just had one or two in the past but not that serious. The problem is I basically am known by having that history. If I tell a new girl the truth she might eventually discover that I instead be lying because my friends will say otherwise.

One reason that I lie is that I seem to get more confident and more IOIs from girls when I tell them that in the past, I have a lot of women in my life. I feel it's preselection. If I continue to present myself as being that guy that has never been loved, women will see me as that - without any preselection from other women.

Once upon a time there was a man who stepped on a thorn, which became embedded deep in his foot. He knew it would be painful to pull out, so he did not. Eventually, it became infected, and the infection caused his foot to swell and become very sensitive and sore. Whenever he touched the thorn to pull it out, it hurt so bad he didn't dare. As the infection got worse, so did the pain. Eventually the infection became life threatening and the pain was absolutely unbearable. He had to have the thorn removed by a doctor, who charged him so much he went bankrupt after having a heart attack and dying. After he died and went bankrupt, his family had to pay his medical bill and his burial costs, which meant they couldn't afford to buy food, and they all died of starvation. When this happened, they couldn't afford to be buried, so their corpses started a horrible plague which infected and killed everyone on earth. And then the earth exploded.

Now, if that man had simply faced the fact that the thorn would hurt coming out, but not as much as it would hurt staying in, he would still be alive, and so would everyone on earth, and the earth wouldn't have exploded.

While I am being a little silly here because I'm tired, the moral here is that doing the wrong thing because it's easier than fixing it, is only going to make fixing it harder, more painful and more costly later on.

So you can keep lying, and stay single forever... or you can be honest, own the truth, and eventually get a girl.

Your choice. But people who don't take my advice invariably live to regret it. I suggest you consider carefully how to proceed.