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.
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.
It's how you hold yourself. If you look and dress good and are relatively successful in life, you'll do fine. If you doubt yourself or put a female on a pedestal, they will smell and sense desperation. Remember, a female's DNA can sense this (weakness and desperation). One needs to always place themselves first and keep their lady in check at all times. She cannot feel too safe either. There always has to be that possibility that you will drop her if she gets too out of line.
Where you focus your attention, your energy flows.
