Indeed, Adam, sorry about the late response, was just going through my posts again and realized I somehow skipped over yours.
The first fight I was ever in I beat up a dude who was bigger than me, and that increased the respect I got from random people EXPONENTIALLY! I couldn't believe it. People are so fucked up. I guess by making this post I was hoping someone had come up with a clever way around this shit, the way people solved the "hot babes won't talk to me!" problems with negs.
I hate it, but I think I'm going to have to master this fighting thing.
I'm planning to join the military soon so that should beef me up. I've already studied to yellow belt in karate, but couldn't afford to continue as much as I'd have liked to.
But when I make more than minimum wage, well that will be a different story.
I'm planning to enroll in karate again (since I do enjoy it), take professional guitar lessons (I've been teaching myself the past year with
www.justinguitar.com, and marty), hire an image consultant, and finally pay Mystery (or someone else who knows what the fuck they are doing) to fix me.
The fact that I CAN do something about all this brought me out of a deep depression recently. I can't wait to be able to afford to take control of my life again.