Next Monday you'll feel more confident. After the gym you'll feel more confident. After one more drink you'll feel more confident. After you get a better haircut, a better jacket, a better job.
You've been "getting ready" for two years.
She's standing ten feet away right now. She'll be gone in four minutes. No amount of preparation will manufacture the courage that only comes from moving your feet.
Walk over. Stumble through the first sentence. Let it be clumsy. Let it be imperfect. You will feel more alive in those ten seconds than you have all month.
Your buddy Dave has been single for three years and thinks "hey u up" is a valid strategy. Your other buddy Mike just got dumped and told you to "just be yourself."
You showed them her text. You asked them to decode the emoji. You drafted four responses and sent the screenshot to the group chat for a vote.
She's been waiting forty minutes.
Put the phone down. Stop crowdsourcing your love life. Type something that sounds like you. Hit send. Then go do literally anything else with your evening.
You've replayed it a hundred times. She stood three feet away, scrolling her phone. You had an opening. You composed the perfect line — after she was gone.
For all you know, she's married now. To some guy who said something. Anything.
Openers are cheap. Almost any sentence works when it's delivered within three seconds. The expensive part is the standing there, drafting and deleting, while the window quietly closes.
The "22 Rules" stripped out my hesitation. What to open with, how to keep it alive, and the one habit that costs guys more women than anything else: waiting for perfect.
pipe007 said:Don't listen to the guys above.
If you have never approached a girl in the past, it will SEEM like the hardest and scariest thing to do in the whole world.
the guys who say pfffff you idiot, just go and do it do not get where you are coming from, they have probably 10000s of approaches already, or are just trolls (most likely)
yes I have done more than 500 approaches probably this year, so I know wtf im talking about.... approaching girls will be hard at first, but if you are willing to go through the pain of embarrassment and humiliation that will happen over and over again until you slowly start developing basic social skills to keep a conversation
with time, you will start to develop attractive personality traits, humor, confidence, with time after months and months of approaching girls, you will start to become indifferent, the moment you realize you don't give a damn what a girl things of you, you will start to say funny, outrageous things that will generate attraction
for now.. you care too much! you need lines, you need a positive reaction from them, so you don't get it. you need to get out there and fail too many times
good luck!!!
just say "hey I saw you, and I had to come meet you"
"hey you are cute, I had to come talk to you"
if she is walking towards you get in front of her ( hey I see you, and I have to say Hi to you)
and then just practice being normal... once you become VERY comfortable talking to girls, practice being INDIFERENT to the outcome, INDIFERENT to their reaction towards you... eventually practice being funny, silly, and sexual