You've said it a hundred times. Maybe a thousand. And every time you say it, you train your brain to freeze the next time she walks into the room.
Leagues are a myth invented by guys who are scared of women.
She's a person. She has bad breath in the morning. She picks songs she can't sing in the shower. She overthinks her own texts.
Walk over. Say something. The league dissolves the second you open your mouth.
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.
Ironically, this is the first thing you do when you start on a program called "The Plan" which helps detect hidden food intolerances and foods that don't work with your body chemistry.
Years back, I started taking basal temps about twice a year. I discovered that my thyroid needed more iodine than it was getting. I began yearly potassium iodide loading; my temps returned to normal. Food for thought.
Man that's rough...COVID has the potential to fvck up your body pretty bad, especially the earlier versions.
