I've honestly debated with myself if I should rant online or not. But I really feel like I have to. I don't have people I could express this to but I'm legit not having the best time.

I tried doing cold approaching about two years and a half ago for about 6 months. At the time I still suffered from massive approach anxiety. I would spend like 4+ hours a day and approach maybe 1 or 2 women. I was a broke uni student so I couldn't even take them to dates and would eject ahahaha. Then life happened and I didn't really approach. I just used few online dating apps rarely getting laid.

Now I have a better job money and stuff so I've been trying to get back into approaching, but I'm honestly starting to hate my life. I've promised myself I want to learn how to approach alone (basically I can approach fairly easily if I'm with other guys, alone it's super hard). I donno what I'm doing with my life anymore to be honest.

I'm 28 in au, and like... I was born in Iran and grew up in Italy and Bengali by heritage. I consider myself a fairly decent dude, well rounded with a mixed background. but fuck why is this has to be so hard? Every time I hear people be like "yo just be yourself and live your life girls will come to you" I want to actually strangle them. Like... unless you're lucky to be in activities or a lifestyle surrounded by chicks that shit doesn't apply. Maybe if I was back in uni.

I also get fairly negative thoughts like "oh you're brown so she probably won't like you". I get super anxious and I'm trying my best to cold approach but it's so difficult. I feel like I'm hitting rock bottom mentally and emotionally.

Sorry for ranting is just that I'm honestly feeling low. I'm getting therapy and all that to be better at life in general but I'm really loosing it. This shit sucks specially when I've had plenty of hot girls tell me that they think I'm "daddy" and other shit but I've just been to dumb to capitalize on it. I just feel really and I don't know what to do. I thought about just getting better pictures for tinder done professionally and just keep using online dating, even that is not guaranteed cause I'm brown and online dating can be fucked for minorities. Although I have an Asian friend who kills it on tinder.

I don't know, I just feel kinda lost because I'm seeing people around me doing well with women while I can't for the life of me get ahead in this, I just have poor social skills when it comes to women.