Thread:Silver-Haired Seireitou/@comment-5651818-20160128182750/@comment-2089817-20160129195453

AbysmalShadows wrote: Brave, and yes even you Sei, I'm going to impart some life-changing advice a friend once told me. Don't put pussy on a pedastal. Yeah, I said it. Its blunt but if what either of you are telling me is on point, I believe this is the root cause of all your problems.

My circumstances are a little different than Brave's. I have no issues with talking to girls, regardless of their beauty, and I can hold conversation quite well from my perspective. I don't know how it is for Brave, but in terms of an average person too nervous to talk to girls, I'm not like that. I don't stutter, I maintain a basic flow of content in said conversation, I fit in appropriate sarcasm from time to time, which does sometimes trigger a laugh, and so on. Friendship is easy to develop and sustain with the opposite sex for me. My problem is the realm that lies beyond that, and by that, I mean romantic relationships. My past experiences coupled with my self-esteem makes it so I simply don't believe there is a decent girl who would actually look at me and develop any sort of romantic feelings for me. Looking at my past relationships, nearly every girl I've ever had any semblance of a romantic relationship with was going through the sort of depression where they didn't value themselves whatsoever. In two of those cases, once I helped them to value themselves a bit more, they traded up and left me. This suggested they were only with me because I was the best of a bad situation. So you see, this has led me to become rather jaded when it comes to anything involving me and romance.

I've grown content with the realization that I will most likely die alone in a research lab somewhere. But it's not too late for Brave, I think he has a real shot if he just steps up and doesn't let anything deter him.