Am I picking up a stranger in some bar every Saturday night and getting laid? No, but I've been reading up and looking at YouTube videos that proclaim the lack of willingness a lot of men have when it comes to approaching women for social reasons. I'm not exactly burning up the charts with my level of activity of that nature, but for a sixty year old guy that likes a certain level of peace in his social life, I've been pretty actively approaching women for social reasons this past year. One of the more promising ones I approached this past year had to be no younger than, say, fifty-three years old, too, so anyone who accuses me of only approaching much younger women can go piss up a rope. Okay?
Does anyone remember Sister Wendy? She was the nun who had a show that looked at art mainly from Western Civilization. She had a heavy emphasis on Renaissance art. One painting I remember her talking about had a lot of phantasmagoric, strange, grotesque imagery that reminded me of Hieronymus Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights." Sister Wendy's very unique interpretation of this Northern Renaissance painting proclaimed that the painting tried to depict the state of a world where men and women did not get along. I would say that such an interpretation speaks to our current times, and a big reason why that guy got elected President again.
I would very much like to have some material success in my relationship with women, so I could possibly help show a lot of men the way. The advantage I have over a lot of other people in that line of work has to do with how self-conscious I am. I can lay out, step by step, how a man who feels lost out there in the dating world can find a way to negotiate his way through it. Then again, maybe my techniques, and approaches, and, this is big, mindsets I've taught myself and learned through others such as Dr, David Burns in his books will ONLY work for me. I'm curious about that.