>>20395950The longer you wait the worse it becomes. A relationship, no matter how fleeting, is one of the development milestones. You have to prove to yourself that you can act desirable to women. With time it all becomes both harder and more pointless. Mistakes of the past and lost opportunities will keep creeping in on you. The sort of confidence you stand to miss out on makes or breaks the character.
You're only 22, it's unironically the prime time to salvage the mistakes of the mindless teenage period. Or you can just ignore everything that is wrong and let the flow of time quietly carry you to your mid-life crisis later on, where you'll have to deal with the very same mistakes, but in an infinitely worse position.