Hi, I just started reading the game on friends suggestion and have been surprised by my perception of getting girls/women in life.

I will start from the beginning. I have been a shy and introvert person since childhood, couple it with bullying, culture, and my own naive beliefs, I have not been socially good and specially awkward with women. Till some point I minded it but then I kind of accepted it and didn't care to work on anything. I spent my 4 years of college with only my guy friends and watching youtube and anime, staying lazy.

I am from India and 28, decent looking, since then I have lived in US and now in Europe, I have been lucky and smart as well to move out and get a good education and good job.

I always have these phases in my life now where I get too depressed and desperate for dating. I haven't been with a girl in my life. I sometimes feel left out and have no purpose in life seeing others having these experience from college time. It feels I missed something very big in life which westerners have privilege of. I really like the open culture here and wish I grew up here only. I always have these thoughts running through my mind. I am not confident how day game and bar game will result in if I try to improve, there are lot of things I would have to work on and I am 28 already.

Then there is societal pressure to get married and settle, honestly I may find someone to marry from my country, but I will feel very repressed throughout my life as I couldn't explore things and be man enough to attract a women have some relationships etc.

Now the summers are here, seeing beautiful women here keeps my hormones up all the time and I am not able to concentrate on other things in life. I wish I could make a conversation with the strangers I meet but it is very hard to muster up the courage to do so.

I will appreciate thoughts of other members of community on this and if I can do anything to help myself.