Years, 3K Posts: A Reflection.
11-02-2016, 01:02 PM
3 years and 3,000 posts. I’d like to use the thread to profess my appreciation for this community and the changes I have made in my life as direct result of being on here, reading, contributing, learning, and evolving through the years.
A brief preface: I first joined this community through reading and writing for ROK. A friend of mine on FB shared one of Law Dogger’s lovely pieces of fiction/satire and I was at a point in my life and career with women that I was prime for taking the Red Pill and diving in head first. At that time ROK was relatively small and content was regular but slower and I read most everything that was on there. I then contacted Roosh and wrote a handful of pieces. You can read them here if you’re interested: http://www.returnofkings.com/author/general-stalin
Before finding this community I was freshly out of a 1-year relationship with a slut who cheated on me leaving me very bitter and frustrated. I was at the tipping point in my love life. Ready to toss aside the rose colored glasses of a traditional movie-like loving long-term relationship with a pretty girl, and embrace the hedonism of slagging through scores of women with no desire for anything beyond getting my dick wet and focusing on my own life devoid of the ultimate distraction of romance and pair-bonding. I was bitter and ready to start opening my eyes and rebuilding.
Here is a short list of changes in my life that are either directly or indirectly a result of me being in this community (within the past 3 years):
-I went from a sexual history of 7 women to around 50
-I went from going from serial monogamist perpetual supplicant boyfriend-type aching to be walked all over to casually dating half a dozen girls at a time getting precisely what I want out of my relationships with little compromise while always having time for myself and my personal goals and making these women happy offering them what they truly desire.
-I have completely shifted my paradigm on love, relationships, and social interaction allowing me to have healthier relationships with both women and men.
-Learned to break out of my comfort zone.
-I left the small area I grew up in and moved across the country.
-I have traveled outside of the country and slept with foreign women.
-Met at least half dozen great dudes, and a few of which I would consider friends who add much value to my life and have influenced me for the better. I can only hope I can return the favor in kind.
-I have started improving my body physically seriously and have gone from always being a skinny guy to 200+ lbs. and getting bigger and better all the time.
-I have grown out of my childish clothing style and way of presentation and interaction to a more refined and masculine presence and appearance that has helped me in my love life, social life, and professional life.
-Learned to let loose, live my life, and have a better time. I had never drank, partied much, danced much, or done any substances before coming to this community and meeting people from here. My horizons are broadened and my life experience has improved.
-I have been able to coach and help my other friends with women and in life based on what I learned here. I’ve had friends who have gotten laid specifically because they did/said things I suggested they do on dates.
There are likely other things I’m leaving out or subtle things I’m just not noticing, but this community continues to change me. The people I talk to, the things I learn from reading about others’ experiences, and the things I share and how people interpret and give input. A few people I’d like to mention as being notably instrumental and positively influencing me since I’ve been on here (in no particular order):
Roosh: For offering all this content for men and sharing it with the world for dudes like me to find and improve our lives. You already know this, but I want to press that the things you have done and offered up, and the community you have created are concretely improving the lives of men.
LINUX: Easily the best friend and most influential person I have met face-to-face from this community. I owe a lot to you man. More than you know. The kind of guy who will literally give the shirt off his back and then some, and living a life that can and does inspire others to change theirs.
West Indian Archie: The content you bring to this forum is unparalleled and I have learned a lot from reading your material. I’ve actually learned more as of late than ever before as I feel I’m finally at a place with my experience with love, women, and life where some of the more abstract things you discuss are clearer to me. You are the #1 person I’d like to meet outside of the forum. All-time MVP here.
Tuthmosis: Aside from being one of the center-pieces of this community and offering immeasurably useful, integral, and downright entertaining content over the years, you’re writing on ROK back in the day was very inspirational to me. In game/romance, and even the tongue-and-cheek satire and hit pieces were very influential in helping my perspective of people and women mature.
H1N1: For all your help and advice in fitness. The resident forum sage on body improvement. I can’t thank you enough for all the help you have given me in my progress thread in working towards reaching my goals.
kaotic: I have seen you grow right alongside me in this community over the years. We’ve joined around the same time, though you have put up an awful lot more content on here. Your detailed logging on your progression with women and in life has been beneficial to me and everyone in this community. Would love to meet up in the near future.
Some other honorable mentions: TheLizardOfOz, Handsome Creepy Eel, Cr33pin, Noir, XPQ22, RunsWithScissors, redbeard, AneroidOcean, soup, Giovonny, Suits, Travesty, Samseau, SamSamSam, Vinny, Cobra, Scorpion, Jariel, Rockhard.
If I left anyone’s name out who I’ve had great interactions with over the years then, well, you mean nothing and you’re dead to me.
No really I’ve just read, chatted, and met with so many people on here it’s difficult to remember.
I’ve ascended to a new level in life with the help from this community and I plan to move to the “next step” in the near future. Travel, money, women, good friends, and good times. Sposibo, comrades.
A brief preface: I first joined this community through reading and writing for ROK. A friend of mine on FB shared one of Law Dogger’s lovely pieces of fiction/satire and I was at a point in my life and career with women that I was prime for taking the Red Pill and diving in head first. At that time ROK was relatively small and content was regular but slower and I read most everything that was on there. I then contacted Roosh and wrote a handful of pieces. You can read them here if you’re interested: http://www.returnofkings.com/author/general-stalin
Before finding this community I was freshly out of a 1-year relationship with a slut who cheated on me leaving me very bitter and frustrated. I was at the tipping point in my love life. Ready to toss aside the rose colored glasses of a traditional movie-like loving long-term relationship with a pretty girl, and embrace the hedonism of slagging through scores of women with no desire for anything beyond getting my dick wet and focusing on my own life devoid of the ultimate distraction of romance and pair-bonding. I was bitter and ready to start opening my eyes and rebuilding.
Here is a short list of changes in my life that are either directly or indirectly a result of me being in this community (within the past 3 years):
-I went from a sexual history of 7 women to around 50
-I went from going from serial monogamist perpetual supplicant boyfriend-type aching to be walked all over to casually dating half a dozen girls at a time getting precisely what I want out of my relationships with little compromise while always having time for myself and my personal goals and making these women happy offering them what they truly desire.
-I have completely shifted my paradigm on love, relationships, and social interaction allowing me to have healthier relationships with both women and men.
-Learned to break out of my comfort zone.
-I left the small area I grew up in and moved across the country.
-I have traveled outside of the country and slept with foreign women.
-Met at least half dozen great dudes, and a few of which I would consider friends who add much value to my life and have influenced me for the better. I can only hope I can return the favor in kind.
-I have started improving my body physically seriously and have gone from always being a skinny guy to 200+ lbs. and getting bigger and better all the time.
-I have grown out of my childish clothing style and way of presentation and interaction to a more refined and masculine presence and appearance that has helped me in my love life, social life, and professional life.
-Learned to let loose, live my life, and have a better time. I had never drank, partied much, danced much, or done any substances before coming to this community and meeting people from here. My horizons are broadened and my life experience has improved.
-I have been able to coach and help my other friends with women and in life based on what I learned here. I’ve had friends who have gotten laid specifically because they did/said things I suggested they do on dates.
There are likely other things I’m leaving out or subtle things I’m just not noticing, but this community continues to change me. The people I talk to, the things I learn from reading about others’ experiences, and the things I share and how people interpret and give input. A few people I’d like to mention as being notably instrumental and positively influencing me since I’ve been on here (in no particular order):
Roosh: For offering all this content for men and sharing it with the world for dudes like me to find and improve our lives. You already know this, but I want to press that the things you have done and offered up, and the community you have created are concretely improving the lives of men.
LINUX: Easily the best friend and most influential person I have met face-to-face from this community. I owe a lot to you man. More than you know. The kind of guy who will literally give the shirt off his back and then some, and living a life that can and does inspire others to change theirs.
West Indian Archie: The content you bring to this forum is unparalleled and I have learned a lot from reading your material. I’ve actually learned more as of late than ever before as I feel I’m finally at a place with my experience with love, women, and life where some of the more abstract things you discuss are clearer to me. You are the #1 person I’d like to meet outside of the forum. All-time MVP here.
Tuthmosis: Aside from being one of the center-pieces of this community and offering immeasurably useful, integral, and downright entertaining content over the years, you’re writing on ROK back in the day was very inspirational to me. In game/romance, and even the tongue-and-cheek satire and hit pieces were very influential in helping my perspective of people and women mature.
H1N1: For all your help and advice in fitness. The resident forum sage on body improvement. I can’t thank you enough for all the help you have given me in my progress thread in working towards reaching my goals.
kaotic: I have seen you grow right alongside me in this community over the years. We’ve joined around the same time, though you have put up an awful lot more content on here. Your detailed logging on your progression with women and in life has been beneficial to me and everyone in this community. Would love to meet up in the near future.
Some other honorable mentions: TheLizardOfOz, Handsome Creepy Eel, Cr33pin, Noir, XPQ22, RunsWithScissors, redbeard, AneroidOcean, soup, Giovonny, Suits, Travesty, Samseau, SamSamSam, Vinny, Cobra, Scorpion, Jariel, Rockhard.
If I left anyone’s name out who I’ve had great interactions with over the years then, well, you mean nothing and you’re dead to me.
No really I’ve just read, chatted, and met with so many people on here it’s difficult to remember.
I’ve ascended to a new level in life with the help from this community and I plan to move to the “next step” in the near future. Travel, money, women, good friends, and good times. Sposibo, comrades.