Post by cork on Aug 29, 2009 19:53:15 GMT -5
Here's the situation:
My parents broke up before I was born. My dad is pretty cool, and he went on to marry a type-A, superorganized, just overall great person. Mom is a helpless romantic, who married the whitest, geekiest, most socially awkward person I know.
Guess which ones I live with?
Living with my mom is a battle. I have to entertain her need for "the perfect family" who only need each other, while at the same time struggling to maintain the social standing I've resultingly only just begun to build since leaving the extremely confining private school four years ago.
This is sometimes ignorable. When I first tapped into the game this summer, I found sarging at the mall was great, because the only time I saw the girls was when we hung out. At least that was the theory, because 9 out of 10 times, I didn't actually succeed (I was brand new, and hadn't even learned half the rules listed in Strauss's THE GAME, which was my first exposure to the communtity). Social proof was easy to create. It was all fun.
Then school started, and I realized something. Just because I was learning how to really game didn't mean I was set. I had just realize that there really isn't a way to make up social proof. Your rep leans heavily on your friends.
I mentioned I came from a private school. Since "going public," as I like to say, I have found I get along well with anyone I want to. But that isn't enough. How do I secure the trust of, well, anyone (guy or girl) in order to get myself into social circles and up my game? How do I overcome a deeply rooted AMOG? (yes, that is a specific problem I'm facing) And when, in a High School setting, can I show that I am the ringleader, the "guy to be with"?
It's great talking to you all. It always is.
My parents broke up before I was born. My dad is pretty cool, and he went on to marry a type-A, superorganized, just overall great person. Mom is a helpless romantic, who married the whitest, geekiest, most socially awkward person I know.
Guess which ones I live with?
Living with my mom is a battle. I have to entertain her need for "the perfect family" who only need each other, while at the same time struggling to maintain the social standing I've resultingly only just begun to build since leaving the extremely confining private school four years ago.
This is sometimes ignorable. When I first tapped into the game this summer, I found sarging at the mall was great, because the only time I saw the girls was when we hung out. At least that was the theory, because 9 out of 10 times, I didn't actually succeed (I was brand new, and hadn't even learned half the rules listed in Strauss's THE GAME, which was my first exposure to the communtity). Social proof was easy to create. It was all fun.
Then school started, and I realized something. Just because I was learning how to really game didn't mean I was set. I had just realize that there really isn't a way to make up social proof. Your rep leans heavily on your friends.
I mentioned I came from a private school. Since "going public," as I like to say, I have found I get along well with anyone I want to. But that isn't enough. How do I secure the trust of, well, anyone (guy or girl) in order to get myself into social circles and up my game? How do I overcome a deeply rooted AMOG? (yes, that is a specific problem I'm facing) And when, in a High School setting, can I show that I am the ringleader, the "guy to be with"?
It's great talking to you all. It always is.