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I've definitely heard this argument many times and it makes a good point. It's the same way with how people often predict a huge stock market crash but we haven't seen one since 2008, although we did see the crash in 2020 because of corona, but now we're back to all-time highs. The counter argument these "doomsday" gurus make against this is the fact that the US keeps creating endless amounts of debt to prevent anything serious from happening, it's a band-aid solution. If you look at https://www.usdebtclock.org/ the US national debt is at $28T and rising. We're in a massive everything bubble right now and will pop at some point, the fact is that nobody knows when. Nothing goes up forever. And bubbles could last for years, maybe even decades, it doesn't have to happen in a short span of time for it to be considered a bubble. It's debt that makes everything seem fine right now. All we can do is look at history and see how this has worked out for other countries. Works at first but it becomes unsustainable then ends terribly, its all just a matter of time. But like you said, it doesn't look pretty. We're definitely already starting to see some things and maybe its just the beginning. Here's another video & channel I recommend:

I don't often see any threads talking about the future of the global economy, so I'd like to share two Youtube channels that I watch often which talk about the dark truths of where we're headed. Although, they mainly talk about the US economy specifically. I truly believe that this idea that the "economy will be back to normal, we're going to see a V-shaped recovery, the government has our back" is a false narrative and we're in for a rude awakening. Anyways, I'm not the one making these claims and I'm not here to have some sort of political debate. I'm just here to share these Youtube channels, feel free to share your thoughts. If you find value in these channels all we can do for ourselves is to prepare.

@freejoy They're doing the devil's work, doing more harm than good and covering their asses by making themselves look like angels. They didn't know they're creating problems? If that's what you claim then that must mean they don't know the type of chemicals they put into their food. Yes they do know. Even cigarette companies understand the issues they create and add "Smoking kills" or disgusting oral cancer photos on the front of their cigarette packs. No that most likely won't happen. Why would they change what has been working for them for decades? That's going to put them out of business. They're known for their garbage junk food, not for healthy organic vegan non-gmo low calorie 0 sugar no preservatives grass-fed no use of hormones or steroids fast food. They're going to continue to operate the way they do until the world wakes up, starts limiting junk food intake, and their sales start to die down. Maybe at that point they might try to go with the trend and sell vegan food but they will fail trying to become a "healthy" restaurant and McDonalds will shut down their business. Sorry, but the things you're saying here is ridiculous thinking that McDonalds will evolve, become more conscious and suddenly care about the people so they start selling healthy food, no way. They're no different than the cigarette company sticking a "smoking causes cancer" label on their cigarette packs. If they understand it causes cancer then why are they still selling it? Because all they care about is profits. If McDonalds understands their food is garbage and causing harm then why still sell it? They're only going to do what works, what rakes in the profits, not what is good and healthy for man-kind. If you think so then you're sort of giving the devil a chance after he's killed millions of people then suddenly saying "I'm sorry I won't do it again." Here's a photo of the cigarette packs I mentioned:

@Regan Interesting question. I think you're basically also asking what the future of MMA is down the road. Personally I love watching MMA fights, but I don't think that makes me a "low conscious" person exactly since it seems to us that MMA only appeals to the low conscious, SD stage Red individuals because its all so bloody and brutal. I remember Dana White said something in a video along the lines of, "fighting will stick around forever, for hundreds of years people loved watching two people fight against each other." I do think that's true but at the same time, who's to say we won't outgrow it? Boxing was huge back in the day, now it seems like its starting to die off. Now it has turned into Youtubers boxing other Youtubers, basketball players, and wrestlers.. HAHAH. But boxing seems to have died off because like Dana said, they give someone a guaranteed couple million dollar paycheck then they run around dodging the whole fight. MMA is bigger than boxing because that's where the real action is at. Anyways, its already impressive that fighting is still around and bigger than ever these days in a more developed society, but still somewhat expected with the rise of technology and increased marketing for the sport. I'll use the spiral dynamics model for reference to better explain my ideas here. As a society we're still probably within the stage blue, green, orange era, specifically in the more developed, western countries. So of course MMA still exists and appeals to us. Although, I think once we start getting into stage green, that's when it might start to slow down or die off. Yellow & Turquoise might find it more tolerable with the attitude of "Who cares do whatever you want" and the sport might come back but it probably won't be as big as how it is now. Are all MMA fighters fully or partially stage Red? Ehh, for the most part maybe but I don't think so exactly. Khabib seems like he's stage Blue being a religious family man, and the rest of the fighters seem like they could be within' Blue/Orange. Could stage Green & higher individuals be MMA fighters? This is where it becomes complicated but if they have a passion for fighting itself then I don't see why not. This question is sort of like asking if crime will still exist in a society operating at its highest potential. I think of course there's always going to be individuals at a lower level of consciousness who will commit crime due to desperate situations, so crime will still exist but just at a lower rate compared to how it was before then. Will crime ever disappear completely? Could be possible thousands of years later, but who knows, that's the difficult question that requires us to look extremely far ahead with such clear vision about the future.

@freejoy I often see these companies who run some sort of charity support on the side as some sort of business tactic to try and appeal to the kind-hearted individuals in order to acquire more revenue for the business. Nothing wrong with that though, just sharing my opinion. And I don't doubt they help families and do charity work, I'm sure they do. But even this thread makes it so clear that people are saying something along the lines of, "Wow! Look at all the good McDonalds brings to this earth they're such a great company!" With McDonalds making themselves appeal to these types of people it makes them more likely to support their business and buy their products, or even spread the word of a "good cause" that the business brings. Also, it makes people feel good about buying their products, knowing that every time they purchase a Happy Meal a portion goes to the Ronald McDonald House Charity. "Wow I'm supporting a good cause buying garbage for me and my kids." I say this because even pyramid schemes do this. I was involved in a pyramid scheme back in the day called "ACN" and they run a charity program called "Project Feeding Kids", you can look it up if you want. But basically part of their business plan is to "Feed starving kids across America & Canada every time someone becomes a customer of their services." It's such bullshit, they just want to make it seem like you're supporting a good cause because they "give back to the community." They also use this to manipulate their friends and family into buying their products. "If you sign up with us and pay your telephone bill every month you're feeding a starving child!" Bullshit. But again, I don't doubt these companies give back, I'm just saying that from my perspective they do it as an investment for the company to make more revenue. And the real question is, how much are they actually giving back? I'd assume in most cases its only a small percentage of their profits.

Oh, that's a bit of a toxic comment there, wasn't expecting that

If you care about my life story read here: Me, I sucked with social skills growing up. In Elementary & Highschool I was always the quiet kid in class, I had friends but I always somewhat chose to hang out alone during lunch. Lunch time was hell for me because I'd always try to find ways to stall time until the bell rang. Sometimes I'd sit in the bathroom for an hour, or just stand in the hallways. This is what it was like for me throughout Elementary AND Highschool. I'd only talk to the friends I had during class or outside of school, just never during lunch time. I'm an introvert (INTP) and I just naturally felt the need to hang out on my own. I'm not a nerd, but I sort of was in the sense that I played A LOT of video games and watched some anime in my early years. I'm talking maybe 8-12 hours a day of video games per day after school or on the weekends. This definitely contributed to the poor social skills I had. But anyways, I don't want to make this too long. During highschool I had crushes on tons of chicks, never talked to them. After highschool, at my workplaces (I worked in a restaurant as a cook at around 16), liked some females but never talked to them. The thought of them would be so painful for me I would literally cry. I didn't even shoot my shot with any of them but for some reason I was upset. So this is when I started to seek help and improve myself. I started to look online and developed an interest in psychology. At first I thought I had social anxiety (and maybe I did to some degree) but turns out for the most part I'm just an introvert so I started to learn more about what an introvert is. Although I was a loner throughout school, my social life got better over time. As an introvert I was always so good at creating friendships with that one extroverted person, that it lead to them bringing me into their world and introducing me to other people. It's just so fascinating that while introverts aren't good in group conversation, they have great strength in 1 on 1 conversation or connections. So I built a close connection with one or two extroverts then it lead to tons of social events and new connections. Skip to this part if you want to know what I did to improve myself: Best decision I ever made to improve myself was to work customer service related jobs. If you read above I was working as a cook for a while, but then I decided to move up front as a host. Less pay but all I wanted was to get out of my shell, and it helped. All my jobs after that were all customer service related in the hospitality industry. Interacting with hundreds of customers per day will definitely boost up your social skills, its all about getting the experience and its not really about reading books. I still read books though, did meditation, worked out at the gym, went to counselling, but I can say 95% of my results came from action taking. Not only did I work customer-service jobs, I got into MLM & pickup. I hate these two now, but they both honestly got me waaay out of my comfort zone. MLM if you don't know is the same thing as a pyramid scheme, and pickup is just cold approaching women. In MLM I've interacted with so many people, and this lead to me meeting a friend who got me into pickup, and when I did pickup I approached hundreds of women, got a ton of numbers. After all this I've just developed so much charisma, I became a completely different person compared to who I was. It became so easy for me to attract friends at work. At this point in time I can't even fathom how crazy my life used to be. This was when I was in my early 20s. To be honest though, this social momentum will only last for as long as you are consistent with it. Now that I'm 25, being social is getting less and less important to me nowadays. I've naturally gravitated towards having less of a social life at this point in time because I feel that there's more important things we can put our energy and time into than having a social life, plus I'm completely fine with solitude. So since the momentum died out, at times I still might be quiet and awkward around people but it should be expected after not interacting with people after a long while. My social skills are still there though it just requires a bit of a warmup first just like anything else.

It's against the rules to set up any sort of group chat outside of the actualized.org forum because its considered splintering the community, Leo wants all discussions within' the forum + its just easier for mods & Leo to moderate. If Leo is the one who sets it up then of course its fine

@Moksha I want to add to what I just said earlier, and this is also to add to the entire thread overall. I thought of this the other night and now have the chance to post it. It's sort of a different perspective to what I was saying. I completely understand what the article is saying, its basically saying the richer we get the unhappier we become due to the fact we may work more, become isolated from others, and want more as we obtain more. But, doesn't this happen at a smaller scale too? Hypothetically speaking if we were living in a third-world country making $10 a day, then we suddenly move to a first world country and make our current wage right now, does that mean we get unhappier? If yes, where does the unhappiness come from in this scenario? Is it in the fact that we became richer jumping from $10/day to $2K to $5K a month for example? Or is it because we now have the money to buy more which leads to more desires? We're not exactly working more because $10/day in a third-world country is 8+ hours of labor. Do we become more isolated? Maybe but it really depends on the context and isolation affects individuals in many different ways, and in this scenario not really because we're still working the same amount of hours and have times for friends and family if they moved with you to the 1st world country. And lastly more money more wants, yes sure but isn't it worse making $10 a day? You can't even eat 3 full meals with that, and you'd be in an even more desperate situation making $10/day. What is the article suggesting? To stay stuck at our current wage and not work for more to avoid unhappiness? Or does the article act as a way to justify why we don't have what we want, or justifies why we shouldn't work for more? I'm really just questioning what was said in the article and the idea of being richer makes us more unhappy. I understand it completely but there's more to it than just that, which lead to more questions. If we scroll up @Bando was saying "look at all of us non-rich people speculating how rich people would feel." Even though I agree we are sort of just speculating here, and I even said it is speculation in an earlier post, but even though some of us may not be rich, we can understand the idea of acquiring materialistic things at a smaller scale. Maybe I personally might have a burning desire to get a specific $5K car or $500 watch and be disappointed and bored once I get it and want an even better one. Its the same exact problem a rich person would have, getting bored after fulfilling their desire for a $500K car or a $50K watch. When it comes to these materialistic things, there's really no difference between luxurious cars and regular cars. Sure one is more shiny and faster but they both serve the purpose of getting you from A to B. Expensive food vs regular food, one tastes better but they both turn into shit at the end of the day. Watches, Rolex vs a regular watch, one is shinier but both tell the time. Having sex with a 10/10 female vs a 5/10, one is hotter but with both its just the experience of sex at the end of the day and it doesn't change anything doing it with a hotter woman. So the point is, I don't really see the difference between these sorts of lifestyles, or for example middle-class vs higher-class. One just has nicer things. With this being said, having more money doesn't really seem to be the problem. Maybe its the problem of how they got to a specific point. Middle-class people are generally unhappy because they work dead end 9-5 jobs. Rich people may be unhappy because maybe their schedule working on a business for example, requires more hours than a 9-5 so I guess that brings us back to the idea of "working more" as said in the article. Or like I said in another post, maybe the rich people had to step on other people, sell drugs, become the devil and sell their soul basically to obtain their wealth, which then leads to the unhappiness. Its starting to seem that the problem is deeper than just "becoming richer." The idea of working more is a good point though but people who work minimum wage work quite hard too, they still work 8 hours compared to 9-5 workers who also work 8 hours but make a higher wage. While I did agree to the fact and say getting more leads to wanting more in my earlier post, I would say this happens at every level. It doesn't matter how much we're making because the ego always wants more. Whether we're the $10/day 3rd world country worker or the 1st world country $10/hour minimum wage worker, we'll always want more. In fact, the person making $10/day is in an even more desperate situation and wants even more. With this being said, this goes against the idea of "more money more wants." The ego will always want more so having more money isn't necessarily the problem. Although, from a spiritual perspective we might say that leaving the desires alone, letting it go and doing nothing about it will cause the desires to go away. My thoughts may have gotten all over the place but there's a lot of questions here. I agree with what the article is saying, but at the same time I don't. The thing is, the article covers what may be happening on the surface level, but it seems there may be some deeper issues that lead to someone's unhappiness when it comes to obtaining more. And I think the answer is that it just depends on the person and their mental state. I guess its also about how they mentally deal with these specific issues. Because I don't think this information applies to everyone and affects everyone the same exact way. My mind is currently scattered now with this topic, the article has got me so messed up lol.

Always wanted a video about this from Leo.

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Same thing I was saying in another thread about the shoes so I'll copy & paste it here: "This might get into conspiracy theory territory but I often wondered why rappers or mainstream artists in general promote this sort of stuff. Conspiracy theorists may say they're all part of a secret group like the Illuminati, worship the devil and are selling their soul for money and all that which may be true? Who knows, but sometimes I think they do this to just create controversy. Controversy is what gets people talking about it and acts as a marketing tactic, which then sells records/products. Nothing new though, mainstream rappers/musicians were always subtle about promoting 666, devil worship, triangles, illuminati, etc. Although, Lil Nas X is going over the top with it and created a whole entire shoe & music video making it obvious." Everyone is talking about this right now, even you guys here on the forum, this is what they want.

This might get into conspiracy theory territory but I often wondered why rappers or mainstream artists in general promote this sort of stuff. Conspiracy theorists may say they're all part of a secret group like the Illuminati, worship the devil and are selling their soul for money and all that which may be true? Who knows, but sometimes I think they do this to just create controversy. Controversy is what gets people talking about it and acts as a marketing tactic, which then sells records/products. In this case they got a governor talking about it which creates even more exposure for the product and the rapper. Nothing new though, mainstream rappers/musicians were always subtle about promoting 666, devil worship, triangles, illuminati, etc. Although, Lil Nas X is going over the top with it and created a whole entire shoe making it obvious.

@Consept Definitely, this idea of the "treadmill effect" could be applied to pretty much everything that feeds the ego, whatever it is that boosts our self-esteem. New and more materialistic things, higher status, new sex partners getting your "lay count" up (something that apparently matters amongst PUAs or men's social circle in general), new porn, drugs, etc. Basically a continuous cycle of getting what we want, getting more of what we want, then whatever that is gets old, so we want something new and even better than the last thing, then we want even more of that new thing. The ego is like a pig, it's always hungry for more and more food, it'll eat non-stop.

First thing that came to mind before clicking on that link, was hmm maybe it is true the richer we get less happy we become because of how the ego works. Lately I've been so fascinated with the topic of ego, why does it want what it wants and how does this whole entire thing work? One of the obvious patterns I've noticed is that the ego often tends to chase materialistic desires or achievements, one after the other. "I want this car, now I want another one, now I'm bored of it so now I'll resell it for a new one, I want this watch, I want another one, this shoe and that shoe," and on and on. Sometimes we might feel that what we have or get is never enough so we keep chasing. Novelty also plays a huge part in this. It could just be the fact that we want more, but it could also be the fact that we just want what's new or that we're addicted to the feeling of getting and chasing something new. It's the experience or the high of it. A first time for almost anything is always so fun and exciting. It's funny because what I just mentioned above with the reselling of the cars, is what I've noticed in some of the rich people I follow on Instagram. These guys bought and resold more than 5-10 supercars in less than a year. It always seemed to be a pattern of "I'm bored of this one I'll sell it for another" within' a couple months time. And then this other guy has about 6 cars sitting in his garage, to me I just think...Why? When will it ever become enough or when will we ever settle for just one thing? So then I clicked on the link, read the article and it mentions, "More money, more wants" and the "Treadmill effect." The more we get, the more we want. They make a good point also in how they mention that the next thing needs to be bigger and better, I think that this can be a gift and a curse. A gift because sometimes it can be a good thing for us to create higher standards for ourselves, but also a curse, because we create higher standards for ourselves. The good thing about it is that I don't think there's anything wrong with having higher standards for ourselves to live the best life and so we push ourselves further to do bigger and better things to acquire more and get the best of the best. But the bad part about this is that, what if we don't push ourselves and acquire what we desire according to these higher standards, or even worse, what if we lose it all? And so I think this is where the unhappiness kicks in. Also, in the process of creating higher and higher standards for ourselves, this is where the never ending cycle of chasing or the "treadmill effect" starts. ALTHOUGH, while the ego can be super tricky and the desires/temptations are difficult to overcome, I do believe we can control or tame the ego through inner work/spirituality which is why this work is so important.

Yes I was sort of saying the same thing in my last paragraph about mental health but didn't explain myself further. It's all about the individual's mental health to begin with. People's attitude on life is determined by their mental health, period. And like I mentioned about spirituality, its not about what's on the outside that makes us happy, its about what's on the inside. Nothing in the material world will bring us true happiness, only temporary happiness.

@Hardkill When we hear the idea of "rich people aren't happy" or "the top 1% of successful people aren't happy," I often only see it as a generalization and a speculative opinion of what's going on with rich people. Because the only true way to understand how these people feel is to interview them or step in their shoes and literally live their life. Nobody knows how another human is feeling on the inside other than the person themselves. Plus it should be obvious that everyone is different and it really depends on the context and the person. It wouldn't make sense for this idea to apply to every single person in the top 1% or any rich/successful person for that matter. I'd say this generalization comes from the popular saying "money doesn't buy happiness" and maybe the understanding of how spirituality/psychology works. Because when it comes to spirituality we all know that it's not about what's on the outside that makes us happy, its about what's on the inside. But even though we have this knowledge, like I said, the conclusion that successful people aren't happy is only a speculative opinion. I don't think the result itself of being rich or reaching the top 1% makes people unhappy or depressed, but maybe its what they've done on their journey to get to that position. Maybe they've sold a ton of drugs to get there, slit some throats, stepped over a ton of people, stole, deceived, their way to get there for example, which then results in the unhappiness or depression. Although, I can agree to the idea that acquiring materialistic desires may be somewhat of a disappointment in the end because people just have such high expectations of what its like to be in possession of these certain things. So to answer the question, it really depends. Of course there's unhappy and happy unsuccessful people, and there's happy and unhappy successful people. Being successful itself doesn't make you happy or unhappy, and being unsuccessful doesn't make you happy or unhappy either. Its all about the individual and their mental health.

@Jaccobtw Check out my two previous threads on this topic, both got a ton of responses. One is a poll and one is another thread like this one.

It's sort of cringe to me lol, it'll catch the attention of the average person I'm sure but with me personally it just makes me not want to watch. There's just something off-putting about the fact that someone has to do something specific with their body language or tonality for the main purpose of getting some sort of result out of another person. But like I said, it'll work for the most part with the average person. It'll most likely attract the majority of people but then there's the small percentage of people who will click off the video haha

Hmm. I re-watched the video again, I guess I can agree he may have some Green in him but I don't think I would say Yellow at all. It's easy to confuse Orange for Yellow. If you watch his other videos though the topics appeal to the Orange mentality. Although I haven't watched too many of this guy's videos so I guess I can't come to a conclusion of where he's at that quick. But the main reason for my initial opinion is the fact that his body language and speech just seem manipulative like RSD. They do this to try and capture the viewer's attention, Leo used to do this too in his older videos. But as he evolved its clear that he doesn't do this anymore. For now maybe I'd say this guy is 90% orange 10% green.

@soos_mite_ah Maybe they just have some sort of emotional attachment to how things used to be, they miss it. Being a child and experiencing life for the first time is just always so fun and exciting for most. The TV shows, the food, the video games, going outside, making friends, following the popular trends, etc. And sometimes adulthood just isn't as exciting so the nostalgia kicks in and they reminisce on the times when everything was easier for them. Even though people had bad childhoods like you mentioned, I'm sure there's still a part of their childhood that they feel some sort of emotional attachment to like their favorite cartoon show, video game, etc. Because of course even if they had a terrible family life for example they still can have a favorite TV show, or toy that they hold onto. Maybe that TV show or toy was their escape from reality and it got them through the tough times as a form of an enjoyable distraction and so they miss it. Personally I'm 25 and I've felt nostalgic many times in my early 20s. I missed my childhood, life was just so fun and easy back then. All we did was eat good junk food and consume content but I loved it. Elementary school was fun too with all the activities, field trips and all of that, it was great. So with these feelings of nostalgia I've tried playing old video games I used to play, watch old movies, etc. And I guess I can say it somewhat helps with satisfying these feelings. Just yesterday actually I was in the grocery store shopping for groceries, and as I was walking down one of the aisles I started to notice all the kid snacks on the shelves. It had all the Jello pudding snack packs, so I grabbed one of the red & blue jello snack packs and put it in my cart. I just had to, haha. I wanted to experience the taste of Jello again. Haven't had it in ages, but as an adult I can say it isn't as exciting to eat anymore. Do the patterns of nostalgia continue as we get older? Personally for me I'd say it just happens randomly. I would have a phase of re-living my childhood for a couple days or weeks then it goes away. I wouldn't be surprised if these feelings continue to pop up again as I get older but I'm an adult now and time to focus on the big boy stuff you know Btw, Leo has a good video called "Understanding Impermanence - Why Reality Is Always Changing." I think that video might be relevant to this topic if you haven't watched it yet.

This Youtube channel just screams Orange, watch one video of his and it'll be clear as day. He reminds me of RSD Julien the way he tries to catch the viewer's attention in the beginning of his videos with his hand gestures and the way he speaks. I guess you can tell by the title of this video without even watching it, plus I'd say you can also tell by the channel name as well.

@Strangeloop Yeah people who run pyramid schemes/multi-level marketing companies bullshit people all the time and achieve success

I'm starting to think that there's a lot of social pressure that comes with being in a long-term relationship, mainly for the men in a heterosexual relationship. Plus, to initially attract any female at all seems like it comes with a lot of specific demands in terms of your social life, career, etc. "Social proof" I think is one of the most important components of being an attractive male overall. This is just how I imagine it to be, I often imagine that the girl would want to know your friends, hang out with you and your friends, go out and do things together, have fun. Plus the girl probably wants to know what you do for a living and what you do on a daily basis such as your hobbies, etc. Relationships always seem to be about enjoying spending time with each other and having fun. Obviously not everyone is the same and there are some exceptions, but generally this seems to be the case for most relationships. So with all of this being said, can a social recluse successfully attract & maintain a long-term relationship? Because I would imagine most girls want to be with a guy who does things, has fun, has friends, someone who is somewhat of a somebody, not a nobody who stays at home for most of his time. Personally I've never been in a relationship before, most likely because of my introverted nature, bad game, & not putting myself out there, but I've always dreamed about being in a relationship with a girl because of the idea of loving one another and having sex. But now I've realized sex is literally nothing, its basically like masturbating, with another person's body + the love that comes with it. Now all that's left is, what is it like to spend time with a female who is genuinely in love with me? I've been on a couple dates recently and the question on my mind is always, "what would they think about my current lifestyle?" All I do is sit at home on the computer working on things, learning, play a bit of video games, 80-90% of the time, and the rest of the time I'm at the gym. That's pretty much all I do, everyday on repeat. Although I do so in hopes of making a ton of progress in terms of my financial situation and overall personal development. I currently don't have any close friends I regularly hang out with, mainly by choice & being selective with who I choose to hang around. I've only had a bit of success with women in the past because I had some social proof. Now that I have no friends basically, I'm not invited to parties anymore and introduced to any new females. So, I imagine a girl wouldn't really want to be a part of this lifestyle, especially when I'm in a phase of still trying to get my life together. The only situation I see working out for me in attracting a partner is when I've finally got my financial situation together to finally go out and do things like travel, go and spend money and all that. I've taken a break from dating for now, since I think its always going to be a situation of me going on dates with someone then them realizing I basically don't do anything and that I'm still trying to get my life together at 25 years old. I've always thought relationships were all about loving each other for who we are, but that just seems to be a fantasy and the truth is, yes it is that but on top of that, your career, social life, hobbies, etc. matter too. Because most women want stability right? Everyone wants the best of the best. And again, I know everyone's different but generally speaking I'm talking about a specific standard of women who look for these certain things in men. Your thoughts on this would be appreciated

I'm designing a Spiral Dynamics full sleeve tattoo for myself and need some suggestions. I wanted something done for a while, but I had no idea what. I've come up with the idea of a Spiral Dynamics tattoo, a compilation of photos in which each layer of photos represent the stages on the spiral. The spiral will move up my arm, starting with stage Biege around my wrist area, then moving up to Turquoise around my shoulder/deltoid area. In between each stage will most likely be some smoke or some sort of fading effect in order to separate the images. I've already compiled some photos into one file which I will attach down below. The design is not yet finalized of course and each photo in the compilation below won't be included in the tattoo, most of them are just variants of another or potential ideas that can be included. Any comments, suggestions for any additions or changes? Mainly looking for help on what to add for Stage Blue & Yellow. Perhaps Purple as well, should I include the wizard fighting a dragon? Or stick to tribal ideas? Space on my arm is limited so I can only include a few photos per stage. And please no silly suggestions thanks