How is natty bodybuilding not a joke?
Spending 5/6 times a week in the gym, spending countless money on supplements, food etc all to look what? A little better than the guy at the grocery store?
You peasants genially believe people admire you don't you? You are no different than the millions of other natties trying to battle out of skinnyfat year after year, battling a lost cause, a dead-end. Battling denial, battling delusion that you are one day going to look jacked and shredded. That you are one-day going to whip your shirt off at a beach, 3d delts captivating everybody 360 degrees around you. You're shredded, and you carry quality mass around like a f*cking greek god. People begin showing you instant respect, girls begin also showing you respect. You are different. You are on another level and everybody else sees this.
Supposed to whipping your shirt off after busting your natty ass off years after year to resemble some skinnyfat looking thing with a pitiable attempt of muscle. Have a few drinks on your vacation and watch your natty physique look even more pathetic than you could ever have imagined. You start to freak out. You ask yourself why the flying f*ck you spent so much time and money to resemble a depleted mediocre physique at best? You were fooled. You seen greg plitt on covers, you seen steve cook on photoshoots, you seen jeff seid and zyzz at beaches and parties with girls flocking them yet you are sitting there at the pool bar with your 17 inch fatcep (16 inch lean, which doesn't even look like you remotely lift if you don't tense) trying to catch somebodies eye to boost your ego deluding yourself they are checking you out.
They're not, nobody f*cking cares. You are not different, why would you be admired? Plenty of men go to the gym, only a handful go to the gym, making the most of their money and time to resemble their end goal.
Do yourself a fcking favour before you suffer any more heartache. Go invest time and money into something 10x more worth while supposed to something where the input to output ratio is laughable at least. All these people in this industry, the people who you follow on social media, the people who girls in your age group like their shredded physiques on ig aren't natty. You are living in a bubble thinking people like this are relate-able, they are in reach if you continue gagging your mothers home made chicken down like a slut in denial day after day, year after year. It's only when you see one of these people you follow in real life at an expo or so, girls taking pictures with them, you realize they truly have left humanity behind. They have an aura you could only dream of. People are taking pictures with them like they are some sort of god. As you catch your natty arm on a reflection it hits you, that you have been living a fcking lie. These people are making money of their physique, while you lose money to look like sht. This is the sort of level in todays society that you have to meet in order to get any desirable output back for busting your cute little ass in the gym.