In all of my interactions with women so far, and all the situations that led to more, there was only one constant - luck. Granted, I am acceptable looks-wise, I am extroverted enough, have balls to escalate physical contact and I can flirt in three languages. Those are useful traits to have but they will get you nowhere with women if you aren't socially active as fuck. So, it's a numbers game, totally irrespective of how good you are, any increase of the traits above would simply change the odds somewhat more to your favor and never guarantee success.
Failure. That one is pretty pervasive. And it almost makes me wish I was as hardcore an incel as I was before. Let me tell you this: If you have a girlfriend, it's like having a job. And it's almost impossible to keep a normal job while you are busy studying a STEM subject and still want good grades or while you have a full-time employment position. If you focus on your studies, you'll fail with women (unless you are extremely hot, like male-model quality looks), and if you focus on your girlfriend, it's almost a given that your studies will suffer. The same goes for your work life.
A normal girlfriend isn't like a prostitute. You can't just fuck her whenever you want. Either she is in the mood or she isn't. If you have a girl who is always available, you got lucky. Most girls just aren't always down to fuck. So, you will naturally reorganize your life so as to be available for *** when she wants it. That is just the worst thing you could do to your studies or work-life. It's like getting up from your work-desk at the office and explain to your boss that you have to take the rest of the day off because your girl is down to fuck and you can't miss out on that chance. That's unemployment staring into your face right there.
Entertaining a girl is a full-time job, unless she is totally submissive or extremely busy. Yet extremely busy women are usually high maintenance and won't stoop to dating a guy who isn't a male-model or a born social butterfly (ideally both). Busy and successful women also aren't interested in successful men, because for such women everything in life is about competition, and they don't want to compete with successful men (because they know/feel that they'd lose).
I have been out in the field, drinking and "having fun", with my girlfriend(s - present and past -) and other friends, almost every single night the past couple of months. I have to stop doing that, and if it costs me my girlfriend then so be it. It's ironic that it is through my successes with women that I learn to appreciate the power of incel. Incel is like the major tool for mind-boggling levels of academic or career successes. The shit that usually makes a man advance human civilization is apparently a grave lack in pussies to fuck.
It's like this for normal men with normal looks and normal social skills,
Chance/Luck -> Girlfriend / Failure
Girlfriend -> Failure in everything else.
That's why most young men of my generation are failures. Men naturally adapt to the requirements of their culture/society to engage in D/S/R. Our culture/society is broken on a systemic level. The young men adapt to said requirements, thereby getting girls (which is the foremost motivating factor for adapting), and fail in everything else. That's why most male students have bad grades and almost no future to look forward to, and why most young women live in a socially-engineered paradise that caters to fulfilling their every desire.
Fuck that shit. I am going volcel and crap all over women. D/S/R just isn't fulfilling or satisfying in any way if, for an average male like me, getting it amounts to
sacrificing your life for the sole purpose of putting your penis in a vagina. Whores ftw.