Wanting to prove my detractors wrong

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Hi Marknis, what exactly do you want to prove these people wrong about (as per your OP), and how do you intend to do this? Or are you looking for advice on how to do it? I'm a bit unclear on exactly what you mean, but I'm hopeful that it sounds like you intend to do some positive things with your life.

Now, I didn't make it in time in the other thread, since you locked it.

But you said marknis, that the problem was that women in your culture don't make the first move.. Let me tell you something, there is no culture on planet earth where it is the norm that women initiate. So even if all your other criticiques of your own culture are valid, this one is definitely not.
If you want to increase the small chance of women ever initiating, I can tell you from personal experience, you have to be in shape and dress well. Women are not going to initiate contact with a fat guy, that's just a fact. The increase in attention I got, from when I was 15, slightly overweight, wearing band t-shirts, and 19, in shape and sharply dressed was massive. You could get in shape in 6 months or so, buy some black jeans and a denim jacket, and you might just have a chance of women actually making a move on you. If you do nothing your chances are probably close to 0%, regardless of whether you live in america, spain, scandinavia, japan, lebanon or south africa.
Btw, I'm not telling you to do anything, it's your choice, I'm just giving you the facts.

One thing I don't understand though, if you really want to prove your "detractors" wrong, why do dismiss advice given to you by a succesful guy like alex? He's a guy who has many of the things you claim to want. You can ignore the rest of us, but I think you're digging your own grave when you refuse to listen to a guy who is way ahead of you, and actually trying to help you.

The scowling thing is usually due to self importance and sensitivity.

Very sensitive people take things personally and go into an ocd downward spiral, I’ve been on medication for that for 20 years.

The reality is, there is probably a small % chance they’re scowling and even less of a chance they’re scowling about you.

It’s worse for people with childhood and youth trauma as we a programmed that people hate us.

We are are the center of the world to us, but we are pretty irrelevant to most others.

It may not be the most comforting thought, but unless your opinions are extremely controversial or you have anger problems, people here won’t hate you. If they do, they’re not worth knowing anyway. They don’t know you, they don’t matter.

The best revenge, Markins, is not giving a damn. These people are nothing. You matter, they don’t.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1IOdPqPZRFUHhx83WSjI8nPhwxejrrWfA/view?usp=sharing
This is a link to download Mark Manson The subtle art of not giving a f#ck

There is a chapter in this book, "You are always choosing", that you should read and read and read until you fully comprehend it.

Have you heard about William James?
He decided to conduct a little experiment. In his diary, he wrote that he would spend one year believing that he was 100 percent responsible for everything that occurred in his life, no matter what. During this period, he would do everything in his power to change his circumstances, no matter the likelihood of failure. If nothing improved in that year, then it would be apparent that he was truly powerless to the circumstances around him, and then he would take his own life.
The punch line? William James went on to become the father of American psychology. His work has been translated into a bazillion languages, and he’s regarded as one of the most influential intellectuals/philosophers/psychologists of his generation.

HE says We don’t always control what happens to us. But we always control how we interpret what happens to us, as well as how we respond. Whether we like it or not, we are always taking an active role in what’s occurring to and within us. We are always interpreting the meaning of every moment and every occurrence. We are always choosing the values by which we live and the metrics by which we measure everything that happens to us. Often the same event can be good or bad, depending on the metric we choose to use. The point is, we are always choosing, whether we recognize it or not. Always.
The more we choose to accept responsibility in our lives, the more power we will exercise over our lives. Accepting responsibility for our problems is thus the first step to solving them.
I (Mark Manson) once knew a man who was convinced that the reason no woman would date him was because he was too short. He was educated, interesting, and good-looking—a good catch, in principle—but he was absolutely convinced that women found him too short to date.
And because he felt that he was too short, he didn’t often go out and try to meet women. The few times he did, he would home in on the smallest behaviors from any woman he talked with that could possibly indicate he wasn’t attractive enough for her and then convince himself that she didn’t like him, even if she really did. As you can imagine, his dating life sucked.
What he didn’t realize was that he had chosen the value that was hurting him: height. Women, he assumed, are attracted only to height. He was screwed, no matter what he did.

There’s a difference between blaming someone else for your situation and that person’s actually being responsible for your situation. Nobody else is ever responsible for your situation but you. Many people may be to blame for your unhappiness, but nobody is ever responsible for your unhappiness but you. This is because you always get to choose how you see things, how you react to things, how you value things. You always get to choose the metric by which to measure your experiences.

Just some paragraphs from the book. I know this is going to be ignored too but YOU are responsible for your situation. It's not your fault maybe but how you respond, how you interpret things is YOUR responsibility.
You can accept this or not, your life is at stake.

If there was a vote for post of the day ^ this would get my vote