Sounds similar to me. Not many friends due to my work life and similar personality.

That is a college campus though, a whole different environment to anywhere else. Anyone can talk to girls there with a bit of courage, those girls are easy going and mostly don't have anything to lose, nor the stresses of the working world. And, people are not talking to each other as much as you say, because they don't necessarily have the need to anymore, they have their TV and porn and...[More]

What made you go back to cold approaching exactly? A break-up?

People are tired, and they are stressed. They don't want to have conversations on the bus or train, they want to get to work and get home and relax.

Those are the negative aspects of it sure. It is a hell of a lot more complicated than that though. And i am not stuck on a fantasy, in fact i just came out of a relationship.

Everyone in the history of mankind is afraid of growing old and dying alone. Unless you are a sociopath or something. Stop spouting dogma at me. It is fine to have mastery and inner game and all that shit when you are young, but when you start getting older and your health and energy and philosophy changes, so will you.