So I wrote about how I'm 37 and due to my face, height, weight and age, I'll probably end up dying alone and was looking for purpose in my life outside of relationships and future children. The comments (on another subreddit), were very nice and people were very kind for the most part and it's great to see so many people reach out but... well...
Except for a few comments that really annoyed me. The topic centered around confidence, self-love, etc.
"Confidence comes from within?" I'm sorry, what?
"You should love yourself even when others don't!" ... What does that even mean?
But the one that sent me over the edge... "Confidence will make you more attractive [to women] I actually had to check if I was having a stroke because that may have been the single stupidest thing I've read in a long time (and I've read the new Dan Brown book).
I need someone, anyone, to explain the following things to me because I am genuinely concerned that people are living in a fantasy world and are actually delusional and/or I'm inside a simulation because there is no way people actually believe this.
Now here is my problem(s). 1. How can a person have self-confidence if they have no past evidence of success to be confident in? Or how can I be confident in my basketball skills if I have never won a basketball game? 2. How can a person think they can play in the NBA if they are 150cm? If your goal is to be a professional basketball player, how is confidence going to overcome the fact that you are 5 feet tall? 3. How can a person love themselves if they induce negative reactions from the people who are them? How can you love the parts of yourself that are actively holding you back from doing what you want? 4. How is it "negative self-talk" if you are simply stating facts? Also, facts that have been verified by other people? 5. And this is the big one. Explain to be please how "confidence" can make a person more attractive without changing how they look physically. How can you look at a picture of a person and assume what is in their head? How does that "confidence" replace physical sexual character traits? You're going to say with a start face that a fat, gross loser like me is going to steal a handsome man's wife? How?
I'm not here to argue; I'm here to understand, because I'm physically sick to my stomach, even typing this out. How does this make any sense? I genuinely want to understand human behaviour and what people find attractive, but every time I state a simple fact like confidence doesn't change your physical sexual appeal, I get bombarded with people telling me I'm crazy, that I need therapy, and I should work on myself. I feel like I'm losing my mind here.
I want to get better, but I can't until I fully get to grips with this insanity people are trying to tell me.
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