/lit/ - Literature

I may have done something that has damaged my brain, and it feels like my writing ability has somewhat fallen apart. My vocabulary, which I once thought was keen and pretty wide ranging, feels like it has closed it on itself, and all my words are basic, my ability to describe weakened. Putting it lightly, it feels like I've backslid years and years. I've been continuously writing but I've started working on a fantasy poem in the vein of the Sword and Sorcery writers of the past, but it feels so hollow, that I have so little of a command of the vocabulary that they did. anyone have any advice? should I just read dictionaries and thesauruses?
as for the brain damage, I'm relatively young(19) so I feel as though I have time to recover what I once had if I work hard.

Hello /lit/, my 74 year old grandfather is dying. He's mentally sharp but his lungs are giving out on him because of COPD. A few months ago he fell and he's been in the hospital ever since. His injuries took a very long time to heal because his body was already very frail and he couldn't muster the strength to walk much due to his illness. His muscles have atrophied to the point where he cannot even sit up in bed with his own strength. He's a prisoner of his own body. They've tried all sorts of therapies to get his muscles back to strength but none succeeded. My mom visits him several times a week and she tells me that he still makes jokes like he did back in the day, but that he's growing increasingly desperate because he is realizing he may not have much longer if he can't get his strength back. He's on the verge of giving up. I haven't seen him in at least 6 years when he was stil able to walk, albeit with a constant supply of oxygen that he carried with him. My mom says he seems ashamed and doesn't want anyone but his wife and kids to visit him in the condition he's in.

The past couple of weeks I've been trying to write him a letter telling him how much he still means to me, all the fond memories I have of him and giving him words of encouragement to not give up. But I can't find the words. Anything I write feels insufficient and not representative of how I'm feeling. I'm especially lost on how to encourage him. I want to tell him in the most impactful and eloquent words that there is more resilience and fight in him than he realizes, and that if he keeps fighting the deterioration of his body, he will eventually be able to move and walk again and have at least another decade of a dignified life left. I want to include inspiring words and thoughts of great philosophers and writers who have written about the human ability to fight through adversity, to defy the odds, about the warrior spirit, about never giving up.

Can you please give me some suggestions? Do you have any inspiring and motivating quotes or book passages from great thinkers about this sort of thing? Your own thoughts are appreciated as well, of course. Thank you.

>>19040779
If I were to guess, it would be the belief in progress that characterizes Judaism and by extension Christianity far more than other religions. Especially when you look at the early Christian and Jewish martyrs, you are touched by a fervent belief in their capacity to "usher in the kingdom". Also, if you have to say "pre-Christian", you are contradicting the assertion that these allegedly true religions had shown themselves to "all peoples".

>>17452969
I got really drunk with my friends and started reading this based off of past conversations we had concerning SJW FAIL AND CRINGE.
Suffice it to say they didn't really understand what I was saying and we transitioned awkwardly to another topic.
I just want some friends I can get drunk with and read poetry and passages from books.

>>14414544
comfy

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>>14414624
School shooter glasses

>>14414802
she has some helpful stuff

Some daysI miss my big tiddy Harry Potter fan ex...

>>14294697
Source for the dancing puppets? They look like frens

so my options are:
>be a stem bug and make a living wage
>be a poor autistic art fag with mediocre writings
what do?
>inb4 blogpost
>inb4 go kill yourself
>inb4 greeks