Day 4 rest
Having some insights: I realize I have some trauma from a girl at a party who I asked if she wanted to hook up back in university. She freaked out and called me a creep etc. and I think I called her a [mod edit: forbidden word] etc. (we were drunk, it was a party etc.
). I think that event traumatized me and scared me from trying to hookup/attract girls I was interested in (and there were a ton of hot girls at this school).
But I realize it wasn’t her fault, it was my fault for allowing the event to stop me from trying again. I was a good-looking, smart, charming kid and I would bet $10,000 that I would’ve/could’ve gotten at LEAST a make-out if I had approached 10 other girls that same week and did the same thing.
Anyway, it had me reflecting on “creepy” and what that means. If this were to happen now, I would be thinking “fine, I’ll just find a girl who says yes then”. And by the way, if I were to find a girl who said yes, and we hooked up and enjoyed each other, would it still be creepy?
Calling someone a creep for approaching a girl and being mature/honest/asking a question like that is shaming them. I could’ve asked her if she had a boyfriend and if so, I could’ve said “wow, you’re having sex out of wedlock, what would your parents think you [mod edit: forbidden word]?” But yeah I’m not going around shaming people like that, so part of me resented her for that, but also I realize it was still MY fault for allowing it to affect me like that.
But yeah she was sort of part of this big friend group we had (though honestly I never cared much for most of them
), and that just set a sh*tty tone for me early on in college. Like I was still friends with all of them, and it might’ve been slightly awkward, but yeah it mostly just affected me internally I believe, or more accurately, I allowed it to.
Anyway, I’m not saying I didn’t hook up with girls in college, but I think I could’ve done much better if I hadn’t been traumatized by that event, and I’m wondering if that event has affected me till today subconsciously.