So I started my journey here about 4 years ago as I was getting into High School.

I'm a nerd at heart, and I latched onto the linear processes taught by the likes of Style and Mystery like no other.

And for a while, it worked! I got myself a few girlfriends over the next couple years and rekindled a new relationship with my first love. The only side effect was that I was also a major jackass at the time, so that lasted all of 6 months.

Then, around the next year, I got done being sad about my jackassery, saw how to fix it, all that good stuff. I felt like I moved from that 'Fake it til you make it' stage into genuine confidence.

I now naturally walk tall, slowly, taking up more space. I try to breathe in more relaxed, slower breaths to be able to speak in my lower register (team baritone whoo!).

I've since graduated HS, taught myself a foreign language, started going to the gym more often, went vegan, I'm enjoying life! Honestly, I think I look good though I've a long way to go on my workout goals. I'm proud of my language learning and I'm looking for my next language now. I cook a lot, and all of my non-vegan friends love my food. I'm headed down the road I want to be on.

But (post title), any time I want to go approach. For some reason, any time I see a girl I want to go talk to, all of that goes out of the window.

Suddenly I feel off. I feel a little bit weaker than normal, a little bit uglier than normal, and pretty much everything falls juuuust below the bar of me being personally comfortable. Then I don't do jack sheeeit.

Seddit, what's goin' on, and how do I fix it?