One Leads To Another
Means, and ends.
Now, this may be a bit of an oversimplification. You can take pretty much any one thing or process and come up with a kajillion different categories to put them in. Good things and bad things. Legal and illegal. Safe or dangerous, etc.
But for the sake of this post, we’ll talk in terms of ends and means. Means is simply what you do to get the ends.
But few things are purely one or the other. And end is useless unless it’s part of a bigger process, or means, to get an even bigger end.
This is helpful to think about when you’re out with the intention of meeting people, especially the ladies.
Most guys see a cute girl, and suddenly all their problems will be solved if only she accepts them. Then they’ll be the hero of Earth, and never worry about anything again.
But even if you walk up and she falls madly in love with you, SHE is still a means to a greater end. Certainly, you are not going to use her and throw her aside like a spent Dixie cup. Hopefully you’ll see her as a partner in creating a relationship, even for a short time. And that relationships is going to be a means to create an ends of more happiness, self expression, and sexual fulfillment.
Now, if you walked up and said all this, you may sound like Data from Star Trek.
But this is how you are programmed.
All humans are built with goal seeking mechanisms, and feedback mechanisms.
And within each feedback mechanism are all kinds goals in and of themselves.
Just think about walking. Your overall intention is to get from here, to over there.
But in the process of doing so, you need to keep balance, and keep one foot going in front of the other.
If you captured only a second or two in time, and played it over and over, each step of your foot would be an end, within a larger process.
The bigger you go, the same this same structure exists. From the smallest atom all the way up to the galactic truth of why this whole thing exists.
Not to get too metaphysical, but no matter WHAT happens with that one particular girl, the same overarching goals still exist, and you will still pursue them.
So instead of seeing her as a “make or break” princess of the realm, just see her as maybe part of your own process, maybe not.
Go over and talk to her, and see what happens.