What Made You The Person You Are Today?

[Anonymous 6]

I’ll go first:

What made me the person that I am today and still learning to be, is a lot of different stuff. I have parents that gave a damn about me, and made sure that i didn’t participate in things that would do me no good. I was brought up in a small rural country town surrounded by cows, and farmland. My mom having multiple degrees taught me that education is key in this world. My dad working in mills and being a fire chief taught me hard work.

The main thing that made me the man i am, is my belief in God. I went into this in the other thread, but man i don’t know where i would be without God. There are things that we all go through in life, and there is no other explanation other than God working it out. So i definitely owe that part of my growing up to God. Another thing that pushed me to be the person that I am today is my love of History.

I went to an HBCU for two years, and from an academic standpoint, it was pure hell. I didn’t learn anything of value there, but i did come across these two history professors that made class always interesting, and i just wanted to learn more. Since i transferred to the school that i got my Bachelors from, i’ve studied more History than i care to share. History is why i’m a conservative. History brought me to find my personal role models in Dr. Thomas Sowell, Dr. Walter Williams, Dr. Ben Carson, Senator Elbert Guillory, Allen West, even Pastor Alveda King, and many more. I found out about these people and knew that i wanted to at least pattern a bit of my life like them.

History did that for me. History has shown me that i can do anything i set my mind to. All it takes it hard work and a little bit of faith. The Bible says that if we have faith the size of a mustard seed, we can move mountains. You’d be surprised how far you can go with a little faith and a little hard work. Another thing that helped me to better myself was coming across this site. I’ve read lesson after lesson about how to protect myself in all matters of life, and i’m thankful for it.

What about you? What made you the man you are today?

[Reece_aParticipant 83]

My father stuck around around and fought for me and my siblings while my mother f~~~ed up so many times if it wasn’t for my pop’s I wouldn’t be half the man I am without him, despite his issue’s my pop’s is one in a million

[DocParticipant]

What made me what I am today;

Parental divorce before I was a year old.
Psychotic maternal grandmother.
Abusive stepfather
Refusal to live with mother and stepfather at age 11

Live with other relatives until 16.
Living on my own a week after 16th birthday.
School drop out.
Return to live with mother and her third husband.
Another abusive bastard so move back out and live alone.
Join a gang by 17.
Start taking drugs same time.
Hit rock bottom by 22. Arrested 4 times but no charges.
Turn my back on gang. Move away to free myself of the grip.
Return to education.
Move back to area.
Continue education.
Find jobs along the way.

Graduate – rest is history.

Amongst that – while in gang meet first gf. 4 years together. Split because the c~~~ is a cheat.

While studying meet second gf. Spend 4 years with her. Mentally deranged.

In between I date girls but most are bonkers.

Finished studying and meet wife to be. Railroaded in marriage, children and divorce.

Not saying I haven’t had fun too. Just not a vast amount of it.

Now I am sovereign. And when I look back I am happiest in solitude. I work better, think better, feel better.

I am 100% self reliant and need nobody.

Forgot to add – father killed himself in 2015.

The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape, finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. Marcus Aurelius

[Sky-OParticipant 18936]

Adversity

All of it

It was the flame that forged my soul

Nothing else

And during the struggle, I learned to embrace it and become one with it when that was all I had.

Embrace adversity. Trust the struggle.

Rise up from the ashes: Strength Beyond Strength.

[ghostParticipant]

I can sit and write a huge list of things, but the person who has had the most influence on me is my mother. She is the finest woman I have ever known in my life. She is also my best and only true friend.

[Anonymous 43]

getting wrecked, blaming myself, swallowing the red pill, forgiving myself, understanding hypergamy, rebuilding. Surviving. struggling. cautious, MGTOW for life, MGTOW is life. Marriage is death.

[MrMeParticipant 651]

Competitive video gaming gave me the will to succeed and to conquer.

Free running / parkour / being a stunman gave me the ability to apply this warrior spirit from the virtual world to the real world.

Gym/free running got me out of depression and anxiety.

Realisation that physical fitness is my secret to my happiness. Found my purpose in life.

Went to university and studied health care.

Became a stripper to pay debts and to learn how to not give a f~~~.

Stopped stripping and am focusing on my master’s degree.

[Anonymous 6]

MrMe wrote:

Became a stripper to pay debts and to learn how to not give a f~~~.

Stopped stripping and am focusing on my master’s degree.

@oldbill probably has a few dollar bills for you lol

[goodkid43Spectator 550]

In this order:

Going to Catholic school all my life

Being raised by my grandparents; Grandfather was a major league baseball coach; Realized that superhero athletes are no different than anybody else

Turning my father’s two man business into low to mid size company, making six figures (in late 80’s early 90’s) and realizing that my soul was empty.

Accepting Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior

Multiple mission trips to South America that shook me to the poverty that surrounded me and the wealth and emptiness that I returned to.

Adopted my only child at birth (wife at the time was unable to have children). Experienced for the first time that I loved someone unconditionally i.e. without receiving anything in return.

Sold the business, semi retired and returned to university and graduated in with a B.A. in Philosophy and minor in Theology.

Reading Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s “Gulag Archipelago”

The life, writings and witness of St. Pope John Paul II

A year and half in prison (clean driving record for over eleven years; upstanding member of community; part time teacher at Catholic high school) . Had a reaction to children’s cough medicine and small amount of alcohol which resulted in me passing out, crossing the median and killing a person on the other side (this happened over 14 years ago).

Wife divorced me about six years ago after nearly 25 years of marriage.

Creating a library of over 1500 books mostly non fiction. Half of them read.

Blessed beyond what I deserve…

God bless, Michael

[MrMeParticipant 651]

Anonymous wrote:

MrMe wrote:

Became a stripper to pay debts and to learn how to not give a f~~~.

Stopped stripping and am focusing on my master’s degree.

@oldbill probably has a few dollar bills for you lol

LoL its all good I don’t need it anymore. If I finish this degree as planned I should get over 60k a year. Hopefully everything will go as planned.

[Anonymous 6]

MrMe wrote:

Venom wrote:

MrMe wrote:

Became a stripper to pay debts and to learn how to not give a f~~~.

Stopped stripping and am focusing on my master’s degree.

@oldbill probably has a few dollar bills for you lol

LoL its all good I don’t need it anymore. If I finish this degree as planned I should get over 60k a year. Hopefully everything will go as planned.

Hope everything goes well with your Master’s. I’m trying to finish mine right now as well and man i wish i was finished with this thing already. Keep your head up, you’ll be walking down the aisle in no time.

[Red KnightParticipant 720]

MrMe wrote:

Competitive video gaming gave me the will to succeed and to conquer.

Free running / parkour / being a stunman gave me the ability to apply this warrior spirit from the virtual world to the real world.

Gym/free running got me out of depression and anxiety.

Realisation that physical fitness is my secret to my happiness. Found my purpose in life.

Went to university and studied health care.

Became a stripper to pay debts and to learn how to not give a f~~~.

Stopped stripping and am focusing on my master’s degree.

Now this…this is gold.

Formerly MoneyOverBitches

[Red KnightParticipant 720]

Anyway, I’ll try to sum it up in short:

I started as a very shy kid in my teenage years. I was shy, but was also very good-hearted. I was also incredibly book-smart. I got bullied a lot growing up due to being very small, skinny, and just outright “weird” according to them. So of course, girls ignored the s~~~ out of me. Because of my lack of social life, I spent most of my teenage years playing video games and online computer gaming. My grades also dropped very badly because of my obsession with gaming.

When I graduated high school, I had no idea what the hell I was going to do since I gave very little thought to my future. So I go to college while working some part-time jobs (still shy and socially awkward) up until 23, when I met a wise guy who talked me into carefully researching my career and gave me some resources to look into. But I still didn’t take college extremely seriously.

But at age 23, I began to realize that my future was going to be very grim if I didn’t step up and do something about it. And so I did. I started studying, working very hard, and got accepted to pharmacy school.

Shyness plagued me for most of my 20s, but with life experience, it slowly whittled away. Working in pharmacy taught me how stupid and self-centered people are. The same people who try to judge me and tell me how to live are these assholes trying to get early refills on their opioids or argue with me that their insurance covers their medication without getting their facts straight at all. And not just customers, but from people I work with and people I deal with from the doctor’s office. All of these people, these f~~~ing idiots, these every day people, are the same ones trying to tell me how to live. That realization was my key to losing shyness.

I’m still a good guy at core. I remember once when I was 21 years old, an old man fell in the snow on college campus and not a single soul would stop to help him up. But I did. While others gawked at him through the window, I was the only one who stepped out of the building to help him up. I still remember his profuse gratitude. Today, I’m proud that I did that. That goodness hasn’t left me for the most part…I just stopped giving a s~~~ about what people think.

Now at age 30, with only a few months until 31, I now understand that the only person in this world you can trust is yourself. I do not allow extreme emotion to control me. I am now not only a good man. I am now also a strong man.

Formerly MoneyOverBitches

[MrMeParticipant 651]

Red Knight wrote:

Now at age 30, with only a few months until 31, I now understand that the only person in this world you can trust is yourself. I do not allow extreme emotion to control me. I am now not only a good man. I am now also a strong man.

You are a fking pharma D, nobody has the right to tell you what to do. Fk them. Glad I read your post.

[sidecarParticipant 35837]

Anonymous wrote:

What Made You The Person You Are Today?

Spite.

[The Batman 2020Participant 2112]

The military

Your 20's are for learning, your 30's are for earning.

[Anonymous 12]

Drug addict parents
Their messed-up children that were my half-siblings
The state’s Social security and Law systems that took me away from nasty people and placed me in an institution
Depression through my teenage years due to the lack of pussy
rising up shortly after my 18th – because i had access to pussy.
Moving onward from the institution shortly after with the phrase “i need to get out of here”

failing to gain a foothold in the trade i chose (industrial mechanics) because i was a weak ass pussybegger and literally an omega type loser

Financial crisis of 2005-2007 where i had literally NO money yet needed to provide for two.
Thank god the bank was lenient.
Understanding that Pussy came with a hefty price tag (financially as well as mentally)

Financial crisis of 2015 where i needed to pay off 10k of debt within a year and was damn lucky to have a job at the time.
And no Woman to support, that would have broken my spirit and forced me out on the street.

last but not least: discovering MGTOW and confirming my Mindset.

[Shadow4512Participant 227]

I have made a lot of poor choices in my life, choices that have crippled my life but nothing I can’t fix with hard work and determination. I’m still young so there’s that advantage. I also believe that the man I am today stems a lot from me finding God I’m not saved yet but everything I have in my life is because of his good grace. Then the last part that played a part in molding me into the man I am today is the two women I dated that eventually led me to MGTOW I guess in a ironic way I should thank them for f~~~ing me over so much because in doing so they freed me and allowed me to find a way better path in life. MGTOW and faith are all this man needs anymore.

No one knows the true worth of a man.

[anonymousyamParticipant 4605]

My childhood really was it was f~~~ed up in ways and s~~~ty in the other.

I remember specifically having the desire to kill myself, animals and alot more back when i was around 13 to 15 because of all the s~~~ that f~~~ed up my brain (i am still angry about it to this day). I think part of the issue (aside from genetics) is that religion was forced down my throat as a child and that f~~~ed me up in many ways (especially as a kid believing you would go to hell or the f~~~ing world was gonna goddamn end).

Now life is getting better but my main thing is that i wanna complete my personal mission and live my life for it to the point when it is done then ill can just decide what i want to do afterwards. Maybe ill just slowly die, maybe die in pursuit of it or ill die in the way i want to before i get too old (i saw my grandmother slowly die over the years in a nursing home to the point were she got too old to kill herself). Either way it is better now then it was back then and i am happy about it.

Now on religion again i am not a believer in religion today as i demand too much evidence for it. I need evidence for belief and religion does not provide it as it demands faith. By technical terms i am an Agnostic Atheist.

Just an east coast asshole who likes to curse, If you get offended by words like fuck, cunt, shit, piss, bitch or any racial slurs then you just scroll down.

[AttonParticipant]

Had a good family and decedent parents who allowed me to think for myself. Technology did the rest as a tool for me to learn from the mistakes of others. I was a mgtow at 13 thanks to that since I was able to do my research.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

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