be me, 20 years old lots of friends

> be me, 20 years old lots of friends
> receive $70,000 cuz grandpa passes away
> cocoon mode and move to a difference city 12 hrs away
> literally deactivate facebook, never talk to any old friends or let them know what happened to me
> 2 yrs later i am now 10% bodyfat (was around 20-25%) never leave my house except to go to the gym at 12-2 am~
> cant look people in the eyes anymore, what do?

kek

#MAGA with those gains

Go full Mr Robot.

post body pls im about to do this as well

have you tried looking people in the eyes? that might help

Cocoon mode at 20 must be tough, but i admire your ghosting ability. Unfortunately i too share the same habit of ghosting people rather than trying to sort my shit with them.

I'm 27 and i've been cocoon mode all year, ditched all my friends because they were holding me back and waiting for me to fail so they could kick me when i was down, and i'm tired of girls because they're just a cycle of suffering. My only social interaction is boxing 4 nights a week and being at work, i'm fitter than ever though and won 2/2 boxing matches this year because i have nothing to do but work and train.

I don't regret it. I'm past the stage of loneliness and quite happy doing my own shit now, i'm always busy.

Cocoon mode is too extreme. You need social gains unless you're some self sufficient hunter who lives in the middle of fucking nowhere in Alaska.

Start socialising. Look up charisma on command and return of kings. They'll give you some starting tips on social skills.

>fuck

I have a problem with looking strangers in the eyes most times.

Get a hobby. Don't go out with the intention of working on your social skills in the same way you do reps and make gains. Pick something that you're interested in like bowling, hiking, pro wrestling, playing some kind of music, disc golfing, yoga, etc. Then just find groups doing that and join them. Whenever you feel like you're sperging out you can just focus on the thing that everyone's doing. And it becomes way easier to get along with strangers when you have something in common.

>charisma on command
>return of kings

You are me except that I had to hide cuz of dysfunctional family.

What do we do now.

We better ourselves; we get to a point in which we're Veeky Forums and we look good; and then we either use tinder or go to bars to find grills.


Or if you're me; you take up a sport and use that to better yourself. I box and if it wasn't for that I'd be manically depressed in cocoon mode; but instead I have a laugh with the guys I train with and I believe I'll find a grill through boxing when I eventually want one again.

Wasted the ages of 16 - 26 on grills and drugs/alcohol/partying/friends. I've knuckled down in cocoon mode since new year and I've made achievements and reached goals I always wanted to reach but never ever came close to obtaining because I was too distracted.

I feel like I'm racing against the clock.

Yeah time files bro. I feel like time's passing so fast. I stay with my childhood bro still. And a qt from high school somehow got my phone number and contacted me again.

Finna work again with childhood bro at his company in a few weeks.

Kinda have to get back with my father it's been too long he's not in good shape too. So time's running bruh. Shit is kinda depressing.

I'm tryna lift but where I moved is no gym so I'll stick to my home gym stuff and better myself and stay healthy.

I'm 20 and got no license but that'll change when I get the job.

Praying for you/us bruh.

You'll make it man; life is just a cycle of good times and bad times. Once you get that work sorted out you'll have a good launching pad to start bettering yourself again.

We're all gonna make it if we put the work in.

Thanks for the heads-up. Also I reject people because I fear that I'll fail them I hate making mistakes that's what keeps me stuck. I literally sense how people get frustrated or sad with me the way I treat them ad that gets me down swell. I have to speak to family again bruh. They love me to death and I love them but there's this barrier out of shame of my mentally ill mother. I hate her and that illness thats why I moved.

Someone make a pros and cos green text, thinking about doing this mode

I have $120k saved from working full time the last 5 years. Tempted to quit and go full NEET mode for a while myself.

Cocoon mode isn't a good idea. I'm 29, bout to be 30. I learned the hard way that you gotta put in reps with social shit too to get good, just like lifts. Every girl yoi talk to is a rep, every friend yoi text is a rep. Every time you go out is a set. Save your cash, get water out places, sit in coffee shops, take long walks. Talk to everybody. Don't cocoon mode.

I'm starting work as a support worker next week. I used to be cocoon mode too.

Gym is a good first step, but volunteer somewhere, a youth group, a charity anything. Be honest about your problems and give them what you can do hours wise.

I started off 2 hours a week sitting in a corner quiet, someone there came into my life and gave me a push.

Now it got messy with her, but we became close and with her help, and later others, I'm now relied on and looked up to in a major organisation.

You are young, plenty of time, take it slow and easy.

pros
>full focus on your goals
>hopefully achieving them
>peace of mind

cons
>crippling loneliness eventually
>losing social gains

Cocoon mode is powerful but you gotta get in, achieve your set goals then get out

how the fuck do you escape cocoon mode though, breh?

>crippling loneliness

6 year cocoon mode no loneliness but I'm not a little bitch.

Also no trouble functioning and appearing like a normal human when forced into social interaction

I agree totally. Cocoon mode should simply mean not actively looking for a gf and focusing that energy on other pursuits. You should still be dong maintenance on your social muscles almost every day.

You have 2 choices, no point in wasting time doing anything but
either
>keep cocooning and completely avoiding society
>learn programming, or some other shit that would give you the option to work from home
OR
>you probably have a lot of that money away
>go to one of those pua bootcamps and put those gains to work
I know it's cringe but some of em really know their shit
I wish I was in your position, living in the US, alone and with some good savings.
dont waste your time

Full cocoon mode here, 21.

I work from home, so I get no social interaction whatsoever, outside of maybe meaningless 'The weather is nice today!' conversations at the gym.

Honestly user, it's kind of nice. You get used to it. It teaches you how to be happy on your own.

At first, it was hard, I missed "friends" (snakes in the grass), etc, but now I'm very content.

I post on Veeky Forums and that is socializing in a way, at least, enough for me

>return of kings

Holy fucking shit you cannot be serious.

The entire PUA scene is exclusively populated by insecure projecting terrified 12-year olds trapped in the lumpy skinnyfat bodies of supposed adult men.

PUA is for ugly beta men.

>Finna
kys

>> literally deactivate facebook

once you stop interaction with people for such a long time you literally turn into a autist and cant talk to people/look them in the eyes

This isn't true unless you were always an autist

dat shit is the truth


HEED these words! This man speaks WISDOM!

Move back into the city, tell nobody except your closest friend (this is important). Only come out at night to go to the gym and start doing mma. Go to halloween outlet store and buy costume that resembles a superhero. Everynight after the gym roam the streets of low income neighbourhoods and beat the shit out of people committing crime. Sidekick friends becomes personal butler (like alfred).

Been cocoon mode since May 2014, I deleted my normiebook, started lifting in January 2015, I can HB squat 155 kg x 5 reps now.

I already tried twice to restart studying, quit after a month. This year, actually today was the last day to register, I miss it so at least I won't loose money.

The thing is I appear way too normal, I look upper-class so people at the gym wants to be friend with me so I lie about having a job until I change for another gym (already did this twice).

Wat do now ?

this is kind of my dream

stumble across big money and tear up this life and start a new one.

a man can dream ;-;

I don't get cockoon mode. Like, why can't being social be part of the whole bettering yourself shtick? Are y'all that retarded that you can't focus on multiple things at once?

godamn, what did your grandpa do?

well sometimes its an adventure to hit the reset button. move, cut all ties with useless people and start a new life, new personality, blah blah blah blah... you can also lie about a bunch of shit. its kinda funny ya know.

fuck man, don't be a bitch, invest in some good shit you can use down the road, pay off an appartment for a couple years, get a mortgage etc.. but obviously , contrary to whatever any retard will tell you, money makes you happy.

If youre so concerned about yourself and ur autism, go on a cruise ship or something or fuck off to thailand. whatever works.

>literally a dude bitching about getting 70k

if you spend it right $120k is a few years of no work, good on you man.

Yeah, but what if a Veeky Forums guy did it?

> kept normiebook but never used it
> checked it recently and saw "are you alive?" messages
> didn't respond

>I'm 20 and got no license
This fucking feel

Same here user. I work from home and my social interaction is limited to Veeky Forums, my parents, and short emails to clients on occasion. I go to the gym in the middle of the night, and none of the regulars talk to me.

Used to have online friends but I even avoid talking to them now.

>move to a difference city 12 hrs away
> literally deactivate facebook, never talk to any old friends or let them know what happened to me

Why did you do that

>tfw 24 and been basically cocoon mode since I was a freshman in high school because no friends since then
>even in high school and college

> cocoon mode for 7 years
> friends/family think i died
> sociopath and dont care about them
> made 900k+ USD in the 7 years online, never had a job, 27 and no license and havent gone outside besides taking elevator to the hotel/condo gym
> how do i start up a social life

^ forgot to mention
> i am now slayer tier but with social skills of a incel
> what do?

Start reading literature and turn it into monk mode.

>> made 900k+ USD in the 7 years online, never had a job, 27 and no license and havent gone outside besides taking elevator to the hotel/condo gym

What the fuck how?

Jerking it on cam.