TLDR; Life is short, don't forget to enjoy yourself while you're here. Smoke that joint. Go share several beers with your friends. Skip a day of work or school and just do whatever the fuck you want instead. Stop taking "self-improvement" so damn seriously!

"...until you reach 9.3% bodyfat, you might as well not even talk to those girls over there..."

"...are you lifting, eating 100% clean and taking the 17 required nutritional supplements for optimal male performance? Well, make sure you lift --otherwise you will be cucked by 30, and dead by 40..."

"...without at least 100K in savings, a minimum of 3 4 investment properties, at least 5 current plates (all must be younger than 25 yrs old), and an 8-inch+ dick --by age 30--, you will have little hope of ever making it into the top 15% of men..."

Now these aren't actual TRP quotes, but I wanted to paraphrase a bit, in order to illustrate the danger (and futility) of taking self-improvement to the unnecessary extreme.

I've seen many posts here so far, especially this year it seems, that outline the '7 Difficult, but Necessary Steps', the convenient 'bullet points' to entering that mystical percentile of men who seem to get laid 7 times a day every day, and will always make more money than everyone else and are generally supreme ALPHA shitlords with an endless, inexhaustible abundance mentality (like /u/GayLubeOil), destined to reign forever over the remnants of the coming collapse of the Western World. Did I mention they are ALPHA, and you're not?

Listen, I'm here to tell you that only a select few of you reading this will actually become that supreme alpha shitlord. To you sirs, I salute you! Sincerely, I do.

The bitter truth is that most of you will not become that supreme alpha shitlord...ever. Some of you will never even come close to that level, no matter how many times you squat twice your bodyweight or get promoted at the office. Instead, you'll probably just end up with a massive ego and a host of conspiracy theories blaming the Frankfurt School and feminism for all of your problems (as some older users here seem to do).

To be clear, I'm not trying to discourage anyone here from self-improvement. To a certain extent, being an unemployed obese in your mom's basement won't get you very far in this life as a man, so you need to fix all of that immediately. But ask yourselves then, is it really so important to let Reddit ruin your week because you weren't accountable in the "Bootcamp" and you touched your dick last night in a moment of weakness?

And I get it. Some people here need that kind of discipline. Still, ask yourselves with honesty...do YOU actually need that? Or, can you now enjoy some of the spoils of war that you've earned since coming to TRP and embarking on your masculine journey here? Because if you can't RELAX, if you can't LET GO, if you can't just STOP TRYING, and just BE in the moment right now, and enjoy this moment, what's the fucking point of it all? Why improve, and improve improve improve improve if you can't just be a human being and be grateful for what you've already been given at the end of the day?

I am very content with my life right now, and I certainly don't fit perfectly into the supreme alpha percentiles mentioned above. However, I have made great strides in my life since coming to this sub and I am thankful for everyone here who contributes quality stuff day in, day out. This post is just as much a reminder to all of you, as it is a reminder to myself...that life is too short, and we don't need to be Mr. Perfect to be happy or fulfilled. Self-improvement is good, but beyond a certain point it's simply masturbation.