Its actually pretty easy if you follow some of these steps.
Even while youre looking for the next best thing, live in the past.
(Anywhere but the present.)
eberhard grossgasteiger
Torture yourself with what might have been.
When youre given a choice, almost always go with what is easiest.
Refuse to take care of yourself but dont lower your standards when and after it starts to show.
Expect others to do what you dont and wont.
Develop an addiction to instant gratification.
Eschew most things that take some semblance of time and effort.
Get way too into porn.
Learn to be alone.
Get used to it.
Start to like it.
Or at least give a shot to convince yourself that you like it.
Avoid dating because it makes you anxious, but occasionally approach the prospect of dating with optimism.
Tell yourself that youre finally doing well and youre ready to be with someone.
Then cancel the date before you even get to meet them in real life.
Avoid treating your anxiety, and hide behind it and the depression you experience.
Make a cycle out of all this.
Move around the country.
Refuse to set down roots.
Realize that you are just absolutely the biggest parody of yourself, but dont do much about it.
Refuse to mature even though youre getting older.
Embrace a stasis of sorts.
Freak out about and resolve to steer clear of relationship-defining titles.
When someone likes you less than you like them, get way too into things too early on.
Be sure to see the end of everything before it even begins.
Instead of learning from past relationships, serious or otherwise, get really into revisionist history.
Completely shit on The Golden Rule.
Be really hard on yourself, but also refuse to ever take proper responsibility for your actions.
Let work run your life and be your main mode of self-worth.
Incessantly want both what you cannot have and what you have had but can never have again.
Be afraid and hesitant to communicate your wants and needs.
Have difficulty even establishing what those wants and needs are to begin with.
Be rather unsure of what love even means to you.
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