>virgin men over the age of 18
Fucking hell how? You pretty much have to make effort NOT to get laid nowadays.
pic related
it's getting tiresome
>>28493831
>Fucking hell how?
i am short, poor and ugly, often unhealthy due to shit genetics
>You pretty much have to make effort NOT to get laid nowadays.
maybe for normal guys, not for me
In the last 50 years we've moved from a society where premarital sex was extremely taboo to one where it is the norm, and is expected (but you still don't really talk about it with your parents).
100 years ago it was taboo for a woman to show her knees in public.
Not everybody is going to be successful at keeping up when a culture and society shifts that quickly, almost complete reversals by generation. You're going to have some margin of people who just don't fit in.
>how
simple. if you are as ugly as me you realize sex is an impossible task
>>28493831
29yo virgin.it's pretty easy
>be shy
>no ambition
>have shit job
>live at home
>be fat
>have no friends
having sex isn't as easy as going up to a woman and saying "ayy bb wan sum fuk>?"
My neutral face is not a smile. I am not too good at talking to attractive girls, and I find the majority of girls in England to be unattractive.
>>28493831
Not getting laid seems to be second nature for me.
No, I don't even bother to do so.
>>28493831
I don't know. I can't even comprehend how normies have sex.
I wish someone would tell me what I'm doing wrong
>>28493831
>You pretty much have to make effort NOT to get laid nowadays.
Yeah that's about the gist of it. Easy girls are boring, but interesting girls are hard to find.
>>28494274
How do normies do anything? They seem to be entertained and impressed by the most trivial things.
>>28493831
>tfw just turned 19 and still a virgin
You just have to be an autist that avoid women
>>28493831
>lost virginity at age 22
felt good man, especially given that /r9k/ and /b/ have always said that if you don't lose your virginity by 18/20 you'll never get laid
>>28494556
Was the girl you lost your virginity to a virgin herself?
Otherwise you're a cuck, which is even worse than being a virgin.
>>28494032
At least you've got the big protective guy look going for you, I'm ugly and skinny so I couldn't even be used for security.
>>28494668
cant win in this world
>>28494679
I literally struggle to hold a cup of tea without spilling it.
>>28493831
Yeah. I haven't met a woman I've been attracted to yet and I'm 25.
Not gay either.
I think I'll try going cd shopping again this weekend see if I see anyone.
Its cus we cherish our virgin virtue. Its a thing to respest. People shouldnt be just sleeping around.
We're not sorry that its something special to us and that we dont give in to our animalistic tendencies.
You hippy
Ok try an being Asian male living in america
Its impossible
>>28493831
>You pretty much have to make effort NOT to get laid nowadays.
I know this is bait but I'll blogpost
>white
>tall
>have decent job
>go to school
>moderately attractive
>actually try to date and meet people
I'm not like a normie but it sounds like I should do okay. I don't though. I've had one girlfriend in my life for roughly one year and no flings or dates or anything outside of that. 80/20 is real.
>>28493831
>You pretty much have to make effort NOT to get laid nowadays.
Yes, this is true, but it is overall less effort than what I would have to give to get laid. Everything requires energy to exist; stop pointing out the obvious.
i just don't use women for sex. if i don't like them and i'm not in a relationship with them, i don't have sex with them.
no more thought into it than that. i've just always been a moderate person, i never liked indulging in things, probably autism, i'm not sure.
>>28494032
You have blue eyes, fuck you.
It required help from God but I'm glad I still am
Nothing more sad than loosing it with anyone and not the only one
I'd rather stay virgin with dignity if not married
You have to understand that peer rejection is something that compounds over time if you remain in the same community for a given period. If you've ever been "one of the losers" within your school system for any length of time, escaping presents greater difficulty, moreso when you consider logistical issues, i.e. small town, no transportation options and no ability to meet a gf in the next town.
>>28494274
Your first, and frankly only problem, is that you think your doings are wrong.
You will never find success by attempting to cage yourself into a box of it (figuring out what you are doing wrong, and limiting yourself to only doing right).
Men aren't what we are, we are what we do. Do what makes you feel alive. Women being the parasites that they are will see how alive you are, and want some of it. Be hip to it and only give them what you can spare, nothing more.
>>28493831
If staying in my room all day and never talking to girls counts as efforts not to get laid then you are absolutely correct
28 yo hkv. Soon to be 29 yo hkv. I will an hero before 30
36 years old. It's actually quite easy, I made a lot of effort when I was younger but for naught. Unfortunately being undesirable and socially awkward is hard to overcome.
>>28493831
>how
By just bee'ing myself, I guess.
>>28493831
>be 20
>only girl I ever got close to was a raging dyke
>no efforts
Smh tbqh senpai
>>28495709
>but for naught.
you see? you see why you didn't get laid? it's because you're the kind of man who says 'but for naught'.
>>28494032
i think you're really ok looking. If you don't smell you have great chances
>>28493831
because I am not a fuckboy who is ruled by his dick who actually has standards and is waiting for the right girl.
I'm 20. I see guys all around me being completely pussy whipped by their wives and gf's. I don't have the social skills or the muscles to get a one night stand. I don't want to get STI's. I didn't cone from a poor family but I don't have a lot of money right now myself
>>28494964
>>>/pol/
Nice try doe.
>just graduated college a virgin
It's all over, isn't it?
>>28494032
you know nothing john snowi think you look ok anon, no need for that sad expression
Social awkwardness is literally all it takes. I'm not a model but I'm not ugly either.
>>28493831
I looked angry all the time and am surprised nobody called me a school shooter
just this year I got a job and learned how to say hi to people when I see them. it's no wonder I never knew how to make friends before. Let alone a gf
the only way I could get a gf is if I was always happy and social and shit
>>28493831
>18
>virgin
>have actually depression, bi-polar, anxiety, and austism
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO
>>28493831
>Be Under 5' 9"
>see Op talking about "no effort"
>>28495560
this
unless women are just approaching you with sex (they're not) then you have to make an effort to get laid, being neutral doesn't get you laid
How did this thread get past the robot? This has to have been made before by some other dipshit.
>>28496271
This.
I'm 168-169 cm. I don't stand a chance.
it's called babydick syndrome, no point in trying.
>>28493831
Mostly because I either a really pretentious looking face, or because I'm fucking ugly.
How do you even begin asking that question?
>>28496394
>get a internationally friendly job
>work/leisure for weeks at a time
>learn Khmer
>fick Cambodian qt prostitutes
>live mgtow
>>28496490
Good job! Proud of you ;)
I had an opportunity when I was 13 and was like "fuck this, too young" then most of the people I was with for high school were scared of sex. the person I was with when I was 16 wanted to fuck but he was abusive and unstable so I didn't want to. then for some fucking reason first summer after university I had sex with 5 different people (lost at 19).
so my conclusion is that luck plays into it HEAVILY.
I feel weirdly successful in this area for a depressed introvert whose like 80% asexual.
>>28493831
>You pretty much have to make effort NOT to get laid nowadays
Exactly. Women are disgusting, so I take extra care to stay the fuck away from them.
>>28493831
*unless you're in the bottom 80% of male SMV, in which case you're literally invisible as a sexual being to women**
>>28493831
But I grew up in a conservative Christian community
Well, you're right. I don't make an effort. But why would I when I know the result?
>>28496576
Have a (You) my Chad friend. You slightly flared up my autism with your baiting post, but I've since regained my composure.
>>28497356
>he was abusive
>guys addmiting to be scared of sex to eachother?
It's a Stacey.
>>28497450
One. Nothing wrong with me.
Two. Nothing wrong with me.
Three. Nothing wrong with me.
Four. Nothing wrong with me.
ONE. SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE.
TWO. SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE.
THREE. SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE.
>>28494361
Pretty much this. I'm a diagnosed autist and was so caught up in my own little world throughout high school that I didn't even notice that my friends *were* hooking up, dating, having sex, etc. I thought that like me they just spent all their time watching T.V. and playing video games (to be fair, this definitely was true for at least two of them). It was genuinely surprising when they finally explicitly acknowledged being in relationships to me.
>>28496090
Honestly, man to man, if you haven't had promiscuous sex by the time you graduate college it MIGHT be over for you. The only times now where you'll be around that many women who see you often enough to score with are going to be your coworkers, and hitting on people at work is equated to shitting directly where you eat.
>>28494032
hellner ?
I don't have the social skills nor the mental stability to keep up a steady relationship. Having shit genetics also helps.
I pity you guys sometimes, but realize i could have been you. It makes me glad I grew up in the trailer hood. I've had pussy fall into my lap more times than I can count. Granted none of it was quality, but it took no effort on my part. I'm ugly and fat. Only thing I had going for me was, I'm tallish with an average dick. Where I grew up, people found out I was a virgin and guys on my block made it a mission to get me some. You guys don't know any sympathetic Chads that can throw you some chick's ugly sister.
>>28494964
>Ok try an being Asian male living in america
39 virgin, can confirm.
Of course, I eventually fixed all the external aspects -- I'm now considered good looking, good conversationalist, professionally successful. Stereotypical Chan Wang Long on the outside. Tall, too (at least for an asian).
Only problem is that it took until my late 30's to reach this point. Inside, I'm too battle damaged at this point to trust a woman enough to lose my virginity.
>>28498105
This is why I keep failing units and pushing graduate back
smugpepe.png
I'm at the point where I'm going to say fuck it and move to cuba or colombia (I already live in south florida) with all my savings and try to make it down there. Being white, 6ft, blonde, green eyes should get me an average latina at least right?
>>28498505
>Being white, 6ft, blonde, green eyes should get me an average latina at least right?
Yes, or a Asian qt3.14 of the first quality.
>>28498505
That's rare even in south florida there's tons of Latinas here
>>28498505
There's a girl at work who wants to fix me up with her latina cute family member from the Caribbean, and hopefully get me to marry her.It's pretty obvious she is doing it to get a green card though.Thinking about doing it anyway.
>>28498459
>>28494964
Hot_Bid is that you?
>>28498612
>Hot_Bid is that you?
Nope, I'm not Hot_Bid whoever that is. Dunno about the other guy.
I'm 5'4 and have schizoid personality disorder :^)
>>28493831
You say I have to put in effort to not get laid, but it's entirely a lack of any effort in socializing at all that keeps me this way.
i cant get hard with the women i hook up with
>Tfw 24 and recently liked to my only friends about having a one night stand
>They always bring it up and ask me about it
>Feel guilty as fuck for lying but I didn't want them to think I was a virgin
The guilt is killing me. I just to tell them, but I KNOW that is the end and I will be a pariah
Robbie and Mark, I am sorry
>>28498690
lied to my friends*
>>28493831
>You pretty much have to make effort NOT to get laid nowadays.
They DO make an effort not to get laid. They're just not consciously aware that's what they're doing.
I'm not saying it's easy to break this pattern. It's very hard. But that is the pattern.
I imagine a majority of you look like this and when you look like this you don't get laid.
>>28493831
Shit tier b8 m8, I'm really ir8 at your terrible b8
>>28498690
I've done that a lot. Most of my friends and even my roommate thinks I'm some slick Dom who has had tons of experience. I basically just told them some porn I watched as if it was me.
>>28498723
>tfw don't even have a full head of hair like that guy
>>28498723
>when you look like this you don't get laid.
Says who?
If you put yourself in certain situations, and have low standards, the chance of getting laid within two months is basically 100%.
/r9k/'s problem is that they don't put themselves in those situations, or their standards are high. I'm not judging, nothing wrong with either of those. But that must be the case.
>>28493831
>Fucking hell how? You pretty much have to make effort NOT to get laid nowadays.
absolutely false for the largest part of the average male population. No woman has never solicited me for this, not even just casual talk.
34 yo by the way and not NEET so I have social contacts with humans.
>tfw graduating in a week as a virgin
>Still have 6 years of graduate school to hopefully get a gf
I have a tiny sliver of hope still, but I'm pretty sure I'm a lost cause.
>>28498764
>depressed hollow eyes
>no smile
>unkempt hair
>boring facial hair
>plain white shirt
generic and ugly af
>>28498802
First of all, ever notice how whenever a robot posts a photo, you think "he's not so ugly!" That's you. You're very likely to be delusional, so factor that in.
Secondly, there is a fat single mother who isn't a virgin, and isn't very smart, hiding in her room somewhere. She'd give anything to be with you. Would you give anything to be with her?
I think that's the point. It takes effort to maintain purity. Unfortunately no women were worth the trouble. It feels bad but I've come this far. It'd be a shame to give in and be a slut lover now.
Any females who are virgin, white, not fat, not deformed, Christian, and willing to submit entirely to their leader hmu. I'm a strong man, Christian, pure of heart and spirit, and willing to lead the household and instruct you in how to be a good wife. I know you dumb cunts are all about the numbers so here they are: 6'2, 175lbs, 12-15%, 55k, only half autistic.
>>28498767
Weird. I'm 32 and while I've been in pretty much no contact with the outside world for the last 8-9 years I did have a few chances of getting laid as a teenager and young adult. I just didn't read the signs, was too picky or pussied out. I can't imagine anyone with a job and social skills not even having the chance. Unless they've got some sort of mental problems or look like an absolute troglodyte. But even troglodytes with money should have some value.
>>28498836
>Christian
>you dumb cunts
you should read the bible more.
i do make an effort to not get laid
>>28498862
They just have better looking guys to have sex with until they turn 30 and start looking for a husband. I am not good looking, I never smile, I have no sense of humor, and it's pretty blatant after 5 min talking with me I will not make a good father and husband.
Not every man will get laid, it's normal, the purpose is to pass superior genes, to enhance the specie. However as women can give birth they will pretty much all get laid because even the ugliest ones can pass some genes from a man.
I don't hate men or women for doing this, there is no point in hate or anger.
All 3 of my (ex) best friends got married to the first or second girl they've had a serious relationship with. It's not that crazy to think your special someone is still out there. For me I realized I'd be alone forever when I dated the prettiest girl in my class and still wasn't satisfied. Any thought of long term commitment, marriage or children gives me crippling anxiety. Either I'm a boy that's never gonna grow up or I was meant to be alone and free from too much responsibility. Being lonely hurts sometime but being in an unhappy relationship would probably hurt way more.
>>28495795
The fuck does that have to do with anything? Women reject you because you used the syllables you use? And society still thinks men are the shallow ones?
>>28498880
I've read it plenty, as well as doctrine and apologetics. How many times have you read the Bible? I wasted 4 years on a bachelor of divinity and a couple years pastoring before changing to nursing. I got fed up with the shitty country church full of stupid cunts who hadn't even read the gospels yet still came to church because mammy and granmammy and great granmammy did.
I don't expect an actual Christian girl. I don't think any women but a handful get in heaven. I do ask she's at least read the highlights though, Genesis, exodus, Matthew, Acts, revelation, maybe the judges or proverbs if she wants bonus points. There's nothing more cringey than a woman discussing Christianity.
>>28499062
I think you not reading humor and taking everything very serious might have something to do with it.
>>28495538
>do what makes you feel alive
So masturbation and vidya all day?
>>28496576
>luck plays into it HEAVILY
Like the luck of being born into the half of the population that has vaginas.
>>28498459
This is why I don't even bother trying at this point. By the time I get there, it'll be too late.
>>28498829
This son of a bitch is factoring only those of us who post pictures as a basis for a flawed argument. The real ugly ones amongst us DON'T post pictures. Everyone I've ever shown a picture of myself to has hated me from that point on. Absolutely ridiculous normie nonsense. Trying to get people to believe in themselves only to further they're misery upon humiliation. Go the fuck back to /b/ and stay there.
>>28493831
>Fucking hell how?
Fucking Hell, indeed.
Granted, the OP was trying to be provocative with his post. However, for all of that, the vast majority of people hold his position with complete sincerity. And justifiably so. After all, the vast majority of men do, at some point, have sex with women who want to have sex with them.
And yet, there will always be a small, sad few who are exceptions. It is unthinkable, isn't it? That there are men who don't experience what the vast majority of humanity takes for granted. It couldn't possibly be that there are people who are not allowed to participate in the human experience, after all. That's a horrifying notion. Something that horrible has to be a myth, a fantasy. Let's call men who experience life like that something similarly mythic, or fantastic.
Maybe we'll call them "wizards".
What is beautifully impossible we call dreams, and what is horrifyingly impossible we call nightmares. And we populate Heaven and Hell with those dreams and nightmares, respectively.
Fortunately, the vast majority of people eventually wake up and finds themselves in the company of normal men and women. And they look upon those denizens of that nightmare Hell and insist the demons they saw there couldn't possibly be real.
If I were given license to finally wake up, I would ask the same question as the OP, if for no other reason than to dispel the nightmare I was allowed to escape from.
Well, some people simply don't wake up.
>>28499488
That's nicely said anon.
>>28494032
You're my co-worker! I'm taking a screenshot of this. REKT
>>28493831
I'm good looking enough, I've just never tried.
>>28499577
no you're not. what are the initials of where we work
>>28499488
Greetings, oh WitchKing. >>28498459 here. We've met before, at that time I offered to exchange contact information but you preferred not to, saying that we'd meet again. And so we have.
>What is beautifully impossible we call dreams, and what is horrifyingly impossible we call nightmares. And we populate Heaven and Hell with those dreams and nightmares, respectively.
Even though I've ascended the rungs of the social and economic ladder, I choose to continue living this wizardly existence.
Why?"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven".
>>28499577
or say something that only a coworker would know
>>28499971
Yes, we have.
The contact information is a tricky thing for me. I don't have a Skype account, although this is more due to my poor old computer being unable to handle something like that more than anything else. I am not a wealthy man; it is something of a miracle I'm able to access this site let alone anything more sophisticated.
And email, well, email is something one gives out on 4chan at his own peril. I work for law enforcement, albeit in a tertiary sense. An inbox flooded with child pornography would not serve me all that well. I need to continue working, after all. How else could I afford the rotgut liquor that keeps me tame?
All of that said, I don't dismiss your point:
>Even though I've ascended the rungs of the social and economic ladder, I choose to continue living this wizardly existence.
>Why? "Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven".
I've always envied men like you, who are wizards of their own volition. Just as I envy men who escaped wizardry by virtue of their own volition. Sadly, I am human, all too human. And when someone like me is still subject to his human impulses, still considers Mother Nature a goddess, I am reduced to something inhuman, all too inhuman.
Yes, there is something to be said for ruling in Hell rather than serving in Heaven.
However, as you yourself have stated, our positions are radically different. You needn't serve in Heaven. Nor, from what you intimated, do you need to rule in Hell.
Well, I don't have the option of serving in one or ruling in the other. And, let's be honest. No one rules in Hell. Down here in Hell, we are all the same, aren't we? We are all hated by God and Nature. No one chooses Hell, he belongs to it because nowhere else will have him.
I can't help but wonder what you feel Hell to be if you stay there voluntarily. Because I would abandon it in a heartbeat, I would sell my soul to God for the privilege.
Unfortunately, God has little use for a soul like mine.
>>28500668
It is simple, oh Witch King, all you need is a throw-away free mailbox. Or, a re-directing service, providing an ephemeral re-directs:[email protected]
Mail me if you like. Or, not. Either way, the above address will be inactivated after this thread is done.
I live in a flat as a man with three female virgins, we are literally all too awkward/religious to even try having sex. All of us have passed it up at some point
I never really went out and tried to get laid.
And I'm not gonna.
>>28495770
>bee yourself
how is that even advice?
>>28495770
>>28501148
>how is that even advice?
It isn't, if you consider it an imperative command.
However, it is quite illuminating when you consider just what exactly the speaker means, rather than what he says.
>>28500169
I think we both know why you're not successful at our job
>>28501110
sounds like you all have a good opportunity right there
>>28501218
Oohoo buddy you do not want to go dicking your flatmates. Like I love these girls but I'd never fuck 'em, we look out for eachother
>Half asian friend with white dad
>He's 5' 8"
>Never exercises, chubby belly, just plays trombone all day
>claims to have an average dick
>has glasses, mostly watches anime and plays video games
>has sex all the time, has tons of girlfriends and cheats on all of them
>Other friend is kinda greasy, super scrawny, just plays video games literally all day
>Average height
>Has sex all the fucking time with no effort
>They make fun of me for not having had sex in over 2 years (only had sex with 1 person, a long time gf who cheated on me)
>Numb to it at this point
>>28501216
nice try buddy, i'm like the best ever at my job and everyone at my job knows it.
>>28501374
>Never exercises, chubby belly, just plays trombone all day
>plays trombone
There's your answer bro.
Chicks love guys who can play instruments. yes, even brass.
>>28501374
I am a /fit/ robot with social issues. I'm 5'9 and basically every free moment (which is all moments) is spent doing something active. I look like an amateur bodybuilder, not a huge IFBB guy, but I am pretty big. I cannot even get a girl to go out with me. I am literally rejected nonstop.
I still don't know what's wrong with me and I feel I'm cursed honestly. I tried to get into acting and had some headshots taken, which my mom put in her office at work, and she tells me every day her coworkers and patients ask "who is that handsome guy?". Yet i can't get ONE fucking date. EVER.
also im 26. sigh
>>28493831
I choose to not seek out a gf, and I choose to not actively seek out sex.
I probably couldn't get either anyway, but it's still a choice that I choose to make.
23 andgayvirgin here.
I've accepted that life is just unfair. I don't like it but w/e.
because i want a 8+/10 white Stacy grill and thats never gonna happen because im an ugly shitskin. and i wont ever lower my standards so ill continue to be a virgin forvever. unless i pay for it, which doesnt count.
The girls I like don't like me, I don't like the girls that like me nor do I care enough about sex to fuck them.
Plus I'm a ugly black NEET so I don't really have much to offer a woman, not even bbc.
>>28499111
Dub trips confirm it.
>>28493831
>Acting like it's abnormal to be a virgin past the age of 18 when the average age a person loses their virginity is 19 in japan
>>28502232
the vast majority of americans have lost it by 18. 97% of people ages 25-30 have lost it
I am 28 and I am saving myself for wizard hood. Only worthless plebs have sex before becoming wizard
>>28501472
how about violin
>>28502439
The vast majority of Americans lead messed up lives anon.
>>28502439
I am still a virgin at 26. I posted earlier how I am a /fit/ guy. I have actually had offers and passed them up. Completely serious i had a girl offer to drive to my house and take me to her house to fuck but i turned her down because she is a slut and out of her mind. I'm a religious christian and have been saving myself for a long term relationship or marriage. It's just how I feel and i can't help it.
>>28493831
>tfw can't even make friends
>tfw so alone can't even imagine what sex would be like
At least I dont care about women anymore
>>28493831
Didn't read the signs most of the time or didn't care. I do know what a pussy feels like but when a girl's on her period and she wants it raw after the first date the red flags tend to kill the boner.
I'm presently not giving a fuck about girls again for the following reasons:
a) they're mostly boring
b) they play stupid games to keep/capture/generate interest
c) they tend to cost a lot of money; while drugs/games/my lubed hand are way cheaper and a better use of my "fun" time
c2) they are shallow and care only for the physical pleasures of life
d) they always say one thing but their actions mean something else entirely
e) I feel that I will have way more fun and pleasure chasing my dreams.
>>28494753
You keep telling yourself that little story bud
>>28502864
good for you i guess
>>28502739
okay
>>28502864
was this girl a stranger over the internet? Someone you knew? A stranger on the street?
>>28494032
I've seen you post shit like this several times. If I were a girl I'd find your woe-is-me attitude much more repulsive than your face. RIP ASAP
>>28504230
She was a girl from college. I commuted to school and it just so happened she lived in my town. Like a true poorfag i took the bus and train to my classes and she took her car though, hence her offer to pick me up.
She wasn't a stacy, but she was attractive enough and had a nice body because she was a track athlete. However she grossed me out. Her first few text messages to me were how she wanted anal. I wish i was making this up. I'm looking for a girl to love and she was looking to get raped in her ass.
>>28496271
What's the story behind that gif?
>>28500668
>Unfortunately, God has little use for a soul like mine
God loves you. What he wants for you is not your soul as it is right now but the soul you can became if you let Him rule upon you. Of course it's your choice, the Almighty won't irrupt a life He was invited to change
Each of us has great potential, the deal is we let our egos out to let Him make the best of us
>>28505386
*the Almighty won't irupt a life He wasn't invited to change
>>28505436
#jesusfagsactuallybelievethisshit
>>28493831
I rejected the only girl who's ever been interested in me because she seemed like a bitch
no regrets
I'm a chubby socially anxious underachiever racist.
Of course i'll never get sex.
I'm tall, tho, 6'4'.
>>28504350
yes because they see my personality instantly and reject me because of that
i have not seen a vagina yet
that might this change this year so im probably good wew
>>28498764
Certain situations like what exactly?
>>28494032
You're not ugly, and judging from your facial structure you would be quite cute if you just made an effort to get in shape.
