Despite what many say here, in my opinion it's pretty much impossible to truly believe it's 100% over for you.
You're not biologically designed to give up and live a life of misery or kill yourself. To some degree, we all have hope.
There are exceptions of course. For example, if you're 5'2, bald, ethnic, 45, etc. But, even on this forum, it's uncommon to be THAT fucked.
I think many incels try so hard to convince themselves that they have no chance of ascending at all, and that this is mainly due to three reasons:
1. They think they're gonna handle inceldom better and eventually accept their situation if they don't have any hope. This doesn't work since, as I've said, it's almost impossible to be completely hopeless.
2. Playing the victim comforts them.
3. If you delude yourself into thinking that you were doomed since birth, then you don't have to deal with the burden of knowing that you could have done something to change your current situation, but didn't.
Just to be clear, I don't mean any of this as an attack. I myself have fallen in all 3 of these traps.
There's a part of my soul that wants to believe that I'm wrong about myself that there really is someone out there compatible with me but my rational side says it's never happening.
Perfect example of what I'm saying.