Way to go dude. I'm aiming for the same thing, but my movement is slower (I'm an illegal alien so college and jobs are impossible). I've moved from petty theft up to paid forgeries and white collar stuff tho : )

Hopefully sometime soon I can get back to my homeland and join the military.

yeah its never easy to leave the game, and once you do it stays callin your name...but i think its time for me, ive been through enough of the bullshit that comes with it. so im hoping god will help me build a new life. as for you i once kicked it with a dude for a few months who turned out to be a fugitive and no one had a clue. he'd been on the run for 5 years, he graduated high school, got jobs, and got his class b license all by adding an extra letter to his last name. and no one had a clue til he got popped one day, but he ended up outrunning his warrant by a few days and they had to let him go. so there is hope lol

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Your welcome.

I'll be honest with you. When I see adults walking around in public dressed like thugs, I automatically think they are intelligent, ignorant, or poserish people. I know that is not true for many of them, but it is the automatic perception that most people have of them.

If you really want to improve your life with girls, the best thing to do is ditch the whole "thug" thing. The real thugs are dead or in jail, everyone else is just role playing. Its an inherently juvenile trend and a demonstration of lower value for most women.

I'm not saying change everything. You can still be the same person without that whole image. In fact, you can actually get rid of the thug image, but keep the thug stories. Stories about how you used to run the streets or whatever but have reformed could be used to demonstrate higher value while still keeping the same edge as before.