This year, I tried to give my life a bit more meaning. I started lifting, reading more books and doing nofap. It made me feel a bit better, it didn't fix my problems or end the feelings of loneliness but it does feel good to improve yourself and become a person you can be proud of. So I'd recommend you do the same thing.
Pride is for fools, and the proof of that is how you've developed this coping mindset - "at least I feel better about myself"
FOR WHAT?
For doing what 90% of men on the planet have already done, and in most cases, better than you
Pride is illogical, one should not be proud, one should be satisfied, being proud can blind you from making objective decisions that are actually to your own benefit, and worst of all pride breeds
COMPLACENCY.
Just as you are proud of what you did, there's some neet who is just as proud for leaving his house for the first time in years, who are you to argue that his single feat isn't equivalent to your many, that's the problem with subjective standards, that's why its better to focus on objective standards, not how proud you are, but how
SATISFIED you are.
When you put a ton of effort in, and you have nothing to show for it, that should be one's logical reality check to stop wasting their effort, and to pour that time and energy into things that would actually improve the aspects of their life that are "lacking", but a prideful person will tell themselves - "well at least I'm better than before at X" and that's good enough for them, they'll keep investing wasted time and effort because they are proud of that insignificant thing, because pride has blinded them as to how insignificant it is.
Imagine if all the incels that spent time at gyms trying to pointlessly "gymmaxx" instead invested that time, into actual monetary investments and building their business knowledge, starting a small business (real world or online), etc. But no, they get caught up pride and tell themselves - "I'm looking more muscular than last month, even though it will never get me laid I think I look better and that's good enough to keep pouring time and effort into this"
@Valiant Virgin the two quotes below contradict eachother
For the last few years my life has consisted of working my low-end job and not much else in all honesty. The years are blending one into
I don't know how to make the most of this freedom.
You don't even have financial freedom yet, so what "freedom" are you talking about, you need to wealth max, build a life where you have reasonable expendable resources and free time, and then think about what you want to do, you sound like you are still wage cucking (much like myself), yet you're somehow confused as to why your life feels empty, its because you don't even have the means or free time to do the things you enjoy.
I'm in that same cycle right now:
Work > Home > Work > Home > Work > Home > Work > Home > On and on it goes
You get a few days off inbetween to still just be home, horny, tired of life, and filled with depression and rage, there is no way to "go about it" as you put it, because you don't even have the time or resources, to do the things that would make an incel life worth while.
Also JFL at the people selling you this "take the white pill BS", I'd quicker recommend take the "Islam Pill", find a strong strict islamic community, if you have muslim family members contact them for help with joining the community, if you find a good one you can likely even find a wife within these communities, and infidelity will be very unlikely (but not impossible)
I'm seeing this "white pill" stuff popping up a lot and I think this is a better alternative For those of you who are serious about really getting a virgin wife, you have to understand that in the age we live in, to get something that valuable you'll have to make some lifestyle sacrifices, if...
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