When I was between 8 and 10 years old, those years form some of my fondest memories of my childhood.

I used to be obsessed about extreme sports and practiced them in every form I could.
I was also a very passionate fisherman, walked in the woods a lot charting the nearby territory for my own pleasure.

My friendships were all about these activities and I also remember how certain kind of music permeated our daily life.

Last few years I've been revisiting my 10 year old self in various ways with hobbies and music and I've unlocked a lot of what got lost by the second dose of Testosterone that started my teenage years where all those cool hobbies got wiped from the anxious life of a teenager.

I'm sure that anyone here should take a journey back in time to meet the authentic boy they left behind and invoke his free spirit back into life and - I see a lot of guys here who are struggling having that teenage anxiety still coloring their relationship between themselves and the external world - And particularly women and other social interfaces.

I'd like to hear what YOU loved to do when you were between 7-12 years old, before you got your hormones mess you up with social anxiety and everything that comes with the teenage years.

List hobbies and interests you used to have that you were absolutely crazy about and see whether you can reconnect with that little man who was in a way further along the road of self actualization than you probably currently are.

For me, just going back to the bands I used to listen when I was a kid of that age was a huge thing for me mentally.
Some of us basically sold our souls when it came to doing and enjoying things that you yourself liked vs. whatever we replaced it with if it was "lame" or "uncool" in order to impress others and in order to fall better into a social group.
Many men got completely lost in the pursuit of fitting in and impressing others so that they aren't in touch at all with that 10-year-old who wants to come out. There are a lot of guys in here whose entire basis of seeking for advice is still trying to fit into society and their goals are all about looking better in the eyes of other people. This is self betrayal. MGTOW is about stopping all forms of self betrayal and living life the way YOU need to live it for yourself.