/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12102657]

What are your feelings on love? Write them out.

[Anonymous No.12102662]

>>12102657
chemical process, temporary, disappointing.

[Anonymous No.12102666]

>>12102657
In my extreme youth I had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in my maturity I had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in my middle age I began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; I saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart.

[Anonymous No.12102669]

The worst of all emotions

[Anonymous No.12102670]

fun especially when homosexual uwu

[Anonymous No.12102674]

>>12102666
hello bill

[Anonymous No.12102677]

>>12102670
this

[Anonymous No.12102682]

>>12102666
Becoming what?
Desperate?

[Anonymous No.12102684]

I've never had true love, only an insatiable lust that is my fatal flaw.

[Anonymous No.12102686]

>>12102657
I have forgotten everything about love.

[Anonymous No.12102714]

>>12102657
Being loved is great, being in love sucks.

[Anonymous No.12102728]

>>12102666
This post is very sloppily and shittily written. I normally don’t care since it’s 4chan but the writing makes it seem like you think very highly of your writing ability. You’re not good m8. Keep trying.

[Anonymous No.12102729]

Something i desperately crave but am too afraid to seek out.

[Anonymous No.12102757]

>>12102657
a wave of the mind that washes away somehow even quicker than it appears. doesn't even really exist desu, just glorified lust.

[Anonymous No.12102775]

>>12102657
Friendship is the purest form of love. Romantic love is too often clouded by sex, familial love is an obligation, but friendship just is.

[Anonymous No.12102781]

Ever since I read Jane Eyre when I was in middle school, I've been absolutely consumed by love. It's something I crave so, so much...

Any good romances you guys can recommend?

[Anonymous No.12102793]

>>12102657
I will never experience it

[Anonymous No.12102802]

>>12102666
why do you write like this? are you having a stroke?

[Anonymous No.12102856]

>>12102657
An essential component of human life that the world would cease to function without.

In short, it’s the ultimate redpill.

[Anonymous No.12102873]

>>12102781
Anton Chekhov’s The Lady With The Dog is the greatest love story in literature that I’ve read thus far.

[Anonymous No.12102889]

>>12102873
Thanks, looks decent enough for me to buy.

[Anonymous No.12103003]

Love justifies life. I'd be happier if it wasn't so often accompanied by anxiety and fear of loss, though. I'm glad I love rarely. I'd go mad otherwise.

[Anonymous No.12103025]

>>12102670
>tfw no /lit/ bf

[Anonymous No.12103126]

>>12102657
Love? My parents taught me what love means.

When my dad was in college he spent his summers bar tending at Legal Seafoods in Newton MA. He was struggling to pay his way through law school, and he was trying to take care of his 3 younger brothers. His mother had just died of cancer. His remaining family was all tat kept him from committing suicide. He was 23 years old, had few friends, and generally kept to himself and read a lot of books. If he were a kid today I think he’d have been one of us here on /lit/. My mother had her own struggles; a borderline abusive older sister, financial troubles, and generally she had trouble fitting in. She’d bounced from school to school trying to figure out what she wanted to do. They read each other’s similar energy and gravitated towards one another. My mom would come over and make a home cooked meal for my dad and his brothers, the first time anyone had since their mother had died. They learned to take shelter from the trouble in their lives within one another, and growing up, I lived in a home absolutely overflowing with love. Through the hardest times in our lives, when my sister almost died, when I became deathly sick, when we lost everything in the 2008 crash, they were an immovable fortress in my life. Everything they’ve been through, the types of things that cause divorces, it’s only makes them stronger. They are an unstoppable team because they found their way out of the dark together.

MGTOW, internet “feminism,” Tinder, and all this other bullshit, do not let it sway you /lit/. Learn to rise above, seek to understand the power over your life you can create if you are willing to open yourself to another person. You have to be brave. Women need men, and men need women. Without this dynamic in life, all is lost

[Anonymous No.12103148]

>>12103126
What’s wrong with lesbianism?

[Anonymous No.12103155]

>>12102657
I assume it exists but it has always eluded me.
I've felt it for other people, but they've never felt it for me.

[Anonymous No.12103202]

>>12102657
When I think of love, I think of the girl who stood by me as I suffered from a case of malpractice, in the time in my life when I was dying, when my prognosis was death. She chased after me and held me in her arms as I was devoured, until her life became as unhealthy as my own and I begged her to stop. When I think of love, I think of how I pushed her away, because I loved her enough to prevent her being dragged down into the darkness of my condition with me. She’s safe now, from me. She has such a good heart that got. I still miss her.

[Anonymous No.12103293]

>>12102657
"dont you know? cant you see the sky falling upon us and the mountains climbing inward squeezing our all knowing doom like a fist?"
she smiled and said "no", aware of the certainty of everyone's true fate. i began to love her for the hope carried amongst her lips as i also began to lose her in that very moment as well.

[Anonymous No.12103318]

>>12103202
You dummy. If somebody really loves you then let them, don't push them away.

[Anonymous No.12103414]

>>12103318
Is it right though? To force a young girl to watch you die? To make her take care of you as you wither away? I shouldn’t be alive.

[Anonymous No.12103561]

>>12103414
>To make her take care of you

If she loved you then then you didn't make her do anything; it sounds like she wanted to be around you. If I loved somebody, I would stick by them until the end.

[Anonymous No.12103566]

>>12102657
Love of God and being > love of muse (a sort of crystallized extension of the previous) > love of 3DPD

[Anonymous No.12103573]

I paid a cute girl at my uni 15 dollars to take a picture with me in order to convince my mom and coworkers I have a girlfriend. They've both been on my ass to see a picture of the two of us together.

I also love writing not terribly serious romance. It's a nice proxy.

[Anonymous No.12103574]

>>12102657
>what's my feeling on a feeling

meta bro

[Anonymous No.12103621]

>>12102728
>shittily written

wew

[Anonymous No.12103625]

>>12102657
fake and gay

[Anonymous No.12103633]

Joy in another's joy

More realistically, the process of learning to be joyful in anothers joy and sorrowful in their sorrow

(Not the same thing as marriage)

[Anonymous No.12103649]

Love may be a chemical process, a glitch, a need to breed and raise a functioning child but I think that over analyzing it creates frustration. Just love the one you want and let go or otherwise descend into caustic misanthropy, despising the world and life itself. Fucking incels are a cancer, and those that wallow in their own social shortcomings, their inability to confront the opposite sex, need to grow a pair and do it. Otherwise, there will be many mass shootings and social instability to come.

[Anonymous No.12103664]

Love is an ambiguously defined space that grows depending on your attitude about how it should form. If you have a narrow idea of what love should look like then, with luck, you will find yourself in a limited social arrangement that delivers hits to your ego at the scheduled times. If you had a broad idea of what love can be experienced as, then you will come to realize that love is simply a matter of learning how to invest into a particular form; the goal is to find someone willing to invest into a form that improves both of your abilities to invest into other forms.

[Anonymous No.12103695]

>>12102657
It makes my peepee the big peepee

[Anonymous No.12103730]

>>12102657
Toga's an example of pure facial charisma. She's got absolutely no ass or tits but can beguile me with her eyes and teeth alone.

[Anonymous No.12103755]

>>12103730
>teeth

Patrician taste. I want her to bite my jugular out.

[Anonymous No.12104010]

>>12102657
Something harder to get than my erection after reading a romantic doujin

[Anonymous No.12104144]

>>12103148
Women unironically need to be governed by a male. Not "receive guidance from," but "be governed by." This is acknowledged in the Biblical understanding of marriage, which 50% of America adheres to anyway regardless of being predominantly secular.

[Anonymous No.12104160]

>>12103148
Highest rate of domestic violence in relationships when compared to male-male and male-female couples.

[Anonymous No.12104214]

>>12103664
>invest into a form

explain

[Anonymous No.12104271]

Most addictive out of all emotions :)

[Anonymous No.12104293]

>>12104214
Putting your energy into learning how to interact with a form, which is composed of other forms and structures that dictate interactions between those forms -- with certain forms permitting more forms and structures than other forms -- with the intention of producing a sensation of becoming: "I am the son, I am the father, I am god, I am here." When you sit here and message me, you're interacting with the form of my messages, which are contextualized by the environment I put them into -- the words I am typing are generating feelings inside of you, which require you to read what I'm writing to generate. The difference between forms can be determined by the effects that they produce from their interaction. Mother is a form. The Republican Party is a form. Your friend group is a form. The gas station attendant is a form. You connect to these forms in similar ways, though they present nominal differences between each other. You use your voice to say I love you, but the meaning changes every time. Each interaction with a given form is an expression of love using a specialized language for that particular form. Love is an investment of the unconscious energy that impregnates all forms.

The reason I consider two individuals investing into a form that enables investment into other forms as ideal is because I'm in such an arrangement and the dynamism of interactions gives me insight into how to interact with other, less permissive forms.

[Anonymous No.12104505]

>>12102657
I think I finally understood romantic love when I first started dating my gf, who'd I'd been friends with for a couple of years. I saw her making herself uncomfortable, being awkward, and taking risks that absolutely terrified her because she saw something of value in me that even I had trouble accepting. When you finally understand that, how unbelievably endearing it is when someone goes out on a limb and reaches out to you, you want to be vulnerable with that person too. When there's already a friendship built, you already know them too, and it becomes the foundation for something greater. It's this ultimate feeling of "I get it, you get it, and nobody else knows what we know." To love is to feel the emotions of another person as your own, to fail, to succeed, and to celebrate in life with them.

>>12103633
this too is excellent

[Anonymous No.12104516]

>>12104505
>taking risks that absolutely terrified her

Did you go skydiving?

[Anonymous No.12104521]

love is accentuated always by the presence of extreme pain or humiliation. wherever there is the possibility, at ANY time, of being utterly destroyed, that is love. having your skin totally in the game. love, ultimately, is being enraptured by its ability to destroy you: whether through loss of love, disappointment, the change of those involved, moving away, death, or simply not having the feeling returned. either way, any true love puts you at enormous risk of complete physical and emotional destitution. even if you live a completely perfect love, for 80 years, that day will come when you learn your wife has cancer, and it will utterly crush you. pain will come

[Anonymous No.12104536]

>>12102657
Love is terrifying and dangerous and a bed of lies. Everyone who has ever hurt me, crippled me, destroyed me, has professed love for me first, often concurrently with their violence. Fuck love.

[Anonymous No.12104596]

>>12104536
true love does exist but keep in mind realistic factors such as, what you do for a living, what aesthetic caliber of woman you're looking for, and where you live. readjust and search again. fail, try again. or become a monk. no other options.

[Anonymous No.12104657]

dont know. im afraid of this four letter word you speak of.

[Anonymous No.12104663]

how can you love someone if you don't love yourself?

[Anonymous No.12104667]

>>12102657
it's bullshit. women cannot love. they only love themselves and pleasure. love is a lie. it's a way to manipulate others. to love someone is to force them to obey you, or to obey someone. it's complete bullshit. it's a mask of ulterior motives, as is all goodness. a woman's love is a pathetic cry for power. love is resentment of those in power.

[Anonymous No.12104674]

>>12104663
suck a cock you new age faggot piece of shit

[Anonymous No.12104676]

>>12104667
instead of making yourself greater its much easier to make others lesser

[Anonymous No.12104689]

>>12104674
I've been here since I was 12 and I'm 21 now. Why would you brag about wasting time on this website?

[Anonymous No.12104695]

>>12104689
He called you 'new age' not 'newfag'.

[Anonymous No.12104786]

Love is doing something good for another person solely for their sake.

Sexual attraction is not love.

"I have no religion but the religion of love.", some Sufi poet or something idk.

[Anonymous No.12104867]

>>12104663
You don’t have to love yourself, you need self actualization and self respect, and ultimately some constructive goals to work towards.

[Anonymous No.12104871]

>>12102728
kek

[Anonymous No.12104875]

Love isn't beautiful, love seeks beauty

[Anonymous No.12104880]

>>12102728
its literally an excerpt from stoner except in first person you cretin

[Anonymous No.12104883]

>>12102674
>>12102682
>>12102728
>>12102802
he's quoting from stoner except he changed third person to first person.

[Anonymous No.12104944]

>>12102657
I don't necessarily believe in it. It really is just a chemical release that fades over time. Everyone tells me I just need to wait for the right one, but those are the same people who are unhappy in their shit-tier relationships.

[Anonymous No.12104949]

>>12104676
it doesn't matter how great you are man, a bitch will just judge you based on your appearance and your social status and what other people think of you. you could be a scientific genius with a 12 inch cock but if you're short or poor or ugly she won't even talk to you.

[Anonymous No.12104956]

>>12103573
That was a bad move, anon

[Anonymous No.12104965]

>>12103573
smart move

[Anonymous No.12104968]

>>12104944
>He doesn't believe in love
Do you also not believe in gravity? How can one man be so pleb?

[Anonymous No.12104991]

>>12103755
>>12103730
it's a cartoon.

[Anonymous No.12105001]

I could write a thousand words, but in the end what describes my feelings the best is just:
>tfw no gf

[Anonymous No.12105003]

>>12105001
Based

[Anonymous No.12105006]

>>12105001
Pathetic

[Anonymous No.12105009]

>>12102666
*snap*

[Anonymous No.12105183]

>>12104667
This.

True love' is a jewish Hollywood fiction made to emasculate the white man and make him easy to control. It's a way to get women power and subsequently have liberal beliefs (women feelings) pervade all aspects of society so that the white race can be eradicated, i.e. by lowering birth rates and importing immigrants.

In reality women cannot truly love, as they are too shallow to be truly ethical or loyal. true love exists only between white male nationalists fighting for a cause in the trenches.

[Anonymous No.12105199]

Every other known human emotion has been mistaken as love itself.

[Anonymous No.12105204]

>>12105199
and probably the most mistaken emotion.

[Anonymous No.12105208]

>>12103126
beautiful answer. you do love justice

[Anonymous No.12105211]

>>12104505
that's beautiful

[Anonymous No.12105215]

>>12104667
I feel sorry for you! c'mon man, it's like you're colorblind

[Anonymous No.12105981]

>>12103126
based and redpilled

[Anonymous No.12106189]

I just jacked off so in this moment of sexual neutrality, I think it's not for everyone, no matter your definition.

I also think that it's something that become rapidly clear. If it was for everyone it would mean that the universe is actually positively biaised, which is impossible.

You don't really become a desirable person if it's not natural to you. Either you bargain, either you die like a dog.

[Anonymous No.12106271]

>>12102657
It's painful and I have little hope of finding it again in a world so unwaveringly devoted to hedonism and social climbing. It makes me sad to think about really but its really the only reason that I or any person exists

[Anonymous No.12106287]

Caring and mutual respect are the closest I've gotten.

[Anonymous No.12106293]

>>12102657
Love is the Baba Yaga tearing their Suns from the sky so they can dance for them.

[Anonymous No.12106310]

>>12106271
This just shows you have completely lost the path. Love is just as hedonistic as those people you bitch about. We have a duty to the world as a whole, and shouldn't chase selfish things like love. Its the ultimate drug which leads to contentment.

[Anonymous No.12106684]

What is the difference between love and lust? Also do the majority of people confusing the one for the other?

[Anonymous No.12106719]

>>12104991
and?

[Anonymous No.12106732]

never actually felt it
humans are ugly in and out
I tried to force myself to love somebody to see what its like and it was boring and tedious too, so I've concluded everyone who says it's a thing is larping.

[Anonymous No.12106759]

>>12104786
That's altruism. In that regard, being taken advantage of is insanely easy and plausible.

[Anonymous No.12106760]

>>12102657
>>12104505
Friendship can be a good foundation for a relationship but not always.

I dated a girl who was my best friend for 6 years prior, and it was at times, the happiest I'd ever been, and the most miserable. The highs were great, we'd hang out, watch movies, play games, fuck like rabbits. It felt like a natural extension of our friendship, and I loved her more than anything before or since.

The lows, however, were pretty fucking low. She had always had depression, but a while after we got together, circumstances in her life made it much worse. I was very idealistic when I was younger. Media had led me to believe that love was some kind of panacea, and if I just loved her enough, the depression would become manageable. Finding her after the first suicide attempt was the most horrific thing I've ever witnessed. I didn't know first aid but I knew I had to stop the bleeding, so I kept pressure on her wrists as best I could while I called an ambulance. She survived, and after I yelled at her and bawled my guts out in the hospital, she promised she'd never do it again. Unfortunately she did not keep her promise.

After stopping two more suicide attempts I had become numb. I still loved her, but I couldn't handle it anymore, and on the last attempt I found myself wishing she'd been successful, so she could end the suffering for both of us. After that I broke up with her. She screamed at me, told me I never loved her. I told her and that was why I couldn't do this anymore. I moved states and cut off all contact with her. It has been 5 years since then and I don't know if she's alive or dead. I'm too afraid to find out.

Heed my blog post, all ye anons that think "love conquers all," it most assuredly does not.

[Anonymous No.12106821]

>>12102657
The only people who experience true love are the ugly and disfigured populations.

[Anonymous No.12106833]

>>12106760
True wisdom. Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.12106944]

Love is belonging to someone else and knowing in your heart that it's a good thing.

[Anonymous No.12107000]

>>12106821
Sorry, I have no such thing to report

[Anonymous No.12107017]

>>12106760
That's brutal anon. Dealing with depressed people is extremely difficult.

[Anonymous No.12107018]

>>12103126
Beautiful post. Well done, you may have saved me.

[Anonymous No.12107031]

>>12102666
yikes what a mess

[Anonymous No.12107071]

>>12104880
>>12104883
Thank fuck I didn't fall for the Stoner meme

[Anonymous No.12107140]

Love is essentially just perceiving your partner to have a higher sexual market value than your own, so your brain rewards you with a nice feeling in order to motivate you to stay with them.

[Anonymous No.12107241]

>>12107140
>t. self proclaimed pick up artist

[Anonymous No.12107257]

>>12103126
Holy fuck.
Thank you anon

[Anonymous No.12107338]

>>12103126
This must be one of the most beautiful posts I ever did see. Thank you, anon: I'm going through a rough break up and your words really gave me back some hope for the future

[Anonymous No.12107359]

fleeting, causes more pain in the long run than it's worth. today, love to the average twenty-something seems tremendously hot and cold, touch and go. i've experienced love yet it dissipates and the women i've been with don't seem to understand that after the "honeymoon phase" of a relationship, love evolves into something different than pure passion, and they leave

[Anonymous No.12107368]

>>12102657
Two people coming together in spirit and committing together to strive for a better tomorrow and treat eachother with honesty and compassion. As much responsibility as revelatory emotion

[Anonymous No.12107372]

>>12103126
this is beautiful anon. thank you for sharing. this kind of love seems very rare and something extraordinary that you've been able to witness firsthand

[Anonymous No.12107375]

>>12102657
Love doesn't exist

[Anonymous No.12107488]

>>12106760
Holy shit that's rough. I wouldn't wish that on anybody.

[Anonymous No.12107565]

Love is a dream and its truth is my sleep. Something else called love are my waking days. Both an idea and an object are what I call love.

[Anonymous No.12107578]

>>12102662
will you fight? or perish like a dog?

[Anonymous No.12107603]

>>12107241
I just watch anime all day actually.

[Anonymous No.12108056]

>>12103126
Moral of the story is don't date a girl whose baggage is bigger than yours.

[Anonymous No.12108066]

>>12102670
Only if they're wearing socks

[Anonymous No.12108219]

>>12103003
>>12103126
>>12103202
>>12103293
>>12103318
>>12103573
>>12103649
>>12103664
>>12104505
>>12104293
>>12104676
>>12104786
>>12104867
>>12105001
>>12106760
>>12107368
This fucking thread man. Why was I made this way?

[Anonymous No.12108608]

>>12106684
Lust is purely physical desire for pleasure, carnal overlord that progresses the species when you see someone you are attracted to

Love is an emotional and in case of romantic love physical connection

It's easy to confuse the two, especially if you havent experienced both, but in my opinion they are fundamentally different with some overlap (eg. wanting to fuck the brains out of your wife/gf is lust, but you still love her emotionally)

[Anonymous No.12108658]

>>12106821
i actually agree with this. i think it's possible if you're not ugly or disfigured, but nothing like being scorned by society creates a person who is able to facilitate pure adoration for the person who comes along and accepts them, even if they're equally ugly or disfigured. society shapes the way we view and experience love, even if we don't want to admit it.

[Anonymous No.12108698]

>>12102666
cringe

[Anonymous No.12108704]

>>12103025
owo hmu

[Anonymous No.12108708]

Love is patient, love is kind.
Love loves to love love

[Anonymous No.12108712]

>>12108066
only if the socks go up at least to the mid shin uwu

[Anonymous No.12108743]

>>12103126
how did they meet?

[Anonymous No.12110245]

>>12102728
i wish this was a troll

[Anonymous No.12110310]

In high school, I volunteered as a tutor at the community center of an underprivileged neighborhood. Though I didn't get paid, the folks who ran the place were kind enough to give me a small parting gift on my last day there. It was a glass figurine of a swan that they used as a paperweight at the front desk. Every weekend, when I checked in at the front desk, I examined the glass swan and fiddled with it. They probably gave it to me because they noticed that I'd taken a liking to it.

During my precollege summer, I carried that glass swan everywhere as a good luck charm. To the beach. To the movies. To the park. I kept it wrapped safely in its box. Even though I couldn't see it or touch it, I was happy just knowing it was there. When I entered college, I brought the glass swan with me. I thought it would stay with me my entire life. But when I unpacked it to put it on the fireplace mantle of my dorm, I tripped. The glass swan broke into pieces and shredded my hands. I towelled off the blood and brushed all of the glass onto a dust pan. I still miss that glass swan, but I can't bring myself to buy another because I know it won't be the same.

[Anonymous No.12110311]

Doesn't exist.

[Anonymous No.12110314]

>>12110310
Is this one of them metaphor things?

[Anonymous No.12110782]

>>12106189
>You don't really become a desirable person if it's not natural to you. Either you bargain, either you die like a dog.

well fuck me I guess I'm going to die like a dog

[Anonymous No.12112257]

>>12102657
Love from family and friends is something I have known all my life and it plays an important role in keeping me sane, but romantic love is something I am completely unfamiliar with.
The experiences of those around me have given me the impression that it can can have have either a good or destructive influence on people.
I hope to at least experience it once.

[Anonymous No.12112265]

>>12112257
*that it can have either

[Anonymous No.12112332]

>>12102657
Fake and gay

[Anonymous No.12112616]

Love yourself first so you can be more lovable.
After that do to other what you would do to yourself and then you'll be able to connect with people of the similar "wavelength".
At that point not only you'll feel love but the type of love that responds to you in a mutual love feedback.
That love is the SAFEST.
Love is a double edge blade, my friends, it's addicting and the withdraws cause the brain to basically shit itself.

[Anonymous No.12112752]

>>12102714
based

[Anonymous No.12112815]

I'm now in love with a lit-obsessed qt girl. she's my life now desu. it feels so special I can't explain it

[Anonymous No.12113181]

>>12103414
You fucking sucker, you pushed a qt away, you dumb fucking faggot.

[Anonymous No.12113859]

>>12102670
>implying fags can love each other the way a man and woman loves each other

[Anonymous No.12113867]

>>12113859
>implying women love men at all

[Anonymous No.12113901]

>>12102657
It’s overrated, desu.

[Anonymous No.12114374]

>>12113859
delusional

[Anonymous No.12114511]

>>12102666
Love to me is an ideal which can never be truly attained-- to find one so compatible with oneself would be a true blessing, but as people shift and change they must either adapt to one another or succumb to a sort of hopeless dread. This seems to be the prevailing view on love, anyway. In all honesty where I've experienced love I've been massively disappointed to find that the other found me deplorable, and thus, I've never shared a truly lasting relationship with anyone else. The modern ideation of love seems to be overrated, anyway. What seems to be of value are the small moments in life in which you find a friend, family member, acquaintance or even a stranger to share a moment of comforting quiet or small exchange with--one which seems to suggest true understanding into each other's being. Love is suggestive, it can never be whole for any lasting period of time. We're all too different in spirit.

[Anonymous No.12114571]

>>12102657
dosen't exist, but it's one of the better things to deceive yourself about.

[Anonymous No.12114690]

Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency which ruins all small pleasures.

[Anonymous No.12115031]

>>12102669
The best of all emotions until it is the worst of all emotions.

[Anonymous No.12115039]

A necessary burden for most people.

[Anonymous No.12115051]

Throw it around or it throws you around

[Anonymous No.12115094]

>>12102666
I view it as all three of these in alternating fashion. Perhaps that means I'm immature.

[Anonymous No.12115125]

>>12108743
Working in the same shitty restaurant. The first time my dad saw my mother she was ordered by their boss to go up in the attic and polish the silverware and he went up there to put a few dishes away. "She looked really miserable up there and honestly I just felt sorry for her. Also I thought she was really cute." That's what he said.

[Anonymous No.12115154]

I have absolutely no idea.
Part of me desires to go on a tangent on this post, try to make use beatiful prose like other anons in this thread and capture that feeling of pressure in your chest. But honestly it's just not possible, not with philosophy, literature or any form of art, these may remind us of love but in the end the only absolute way to get the experience is to feel it clawing away on the walls of your chest.

[Anonymous No.12116013]

>>12102657
Love is the original drug.

[Anonymous No.12116025]

>>12116013
Love is not a drug.

Love is not a feeling at all, it's how you act. The feelz you feel while acting is not really love, it's something else.

[Anonymous No.12116030]

>>12103126
Your mother most likely cheated on your dad. There is a good 50-70% chance that she did.

[Anonymous No.12116044]

>>12104521

underratd post

[Anonymous No.12116047]

>>12103126
based post

[Anonymous No.12116063]

>>12106821
>>12108658

Good points.

[Anonymous No.12116069]

>>12110310

Well said.

[Anonymous No.12116075]

>>12114690

Insightful.

[Anonymous No.12116080]

>>12103126
What a beautiful family you have anon, something that I am envious of

[Anonymous No.12116090]

>>12110310
Your college dorm had a fireplace mantel? What the fuck??

[Anonymous No.12116093]

>>12113859
hello virgin

[Anonymous No.12116466]

>>12102657
Never felt love, never had a gf, my mother beat the shit out of me and then threw me away, my dad never gave shit about me, I live with my grandma, she is ok, old type person, doesn't know much about emotional support. I love her, but I never received this genuine feeling of warmth and joy from another person

[Anonymous No.12116481]

>>12116466
same but i´ve never had the luxury to live with someone other than my narcissistic mother

[Anonymous No.12116538]

Love is a loaded emotion in the now to each individual, and only matched when two find themselves. Its not consistent.

Over time, it morphs and reforms itself. Affected by whatevers around or internal.

[Anonymous No.12116574]

>>12103126
I recognize this pasta. Didya think I would forget?

[Anonymous No.12116633]

Like watching close up magic. Fun as long as you don't study it too closely.

[Anonymous No.12116646]

Gib Himoko Toga gf pls

[Anonymous No.12117136]

>>12102657
A lack of love is a great motivator only for so long, and then it becomes a curse

[Anonymous No.12117341]

I've been hopelessly in love with my best friend for well over 10 years.

I don't like it but it does give some meaning to my life.

[Anonymous No.12117364]

Disappointing.

[Anonymous No.12117382]

>>12117341
Tell her

[Anonymous No.12117447]

>>12117382
Oh I did like 6 years ago

[Anonymous No.12117487]

>>12117447
ouch

[Anonymous No.12117720]

>>12117447
I'm so sorry. I hope you can find the strength to move on eventually.

[Anonymous No.12118050]

>>12103126
After my parents divorced following years of marriage and having been cheated on in relationships personally, i realize that my perception of love is ultimately skewed. Its a fucky viewpoint but I somewhat expect my current gf to up and leave me as well because the strongest forms of love ive ever known have all fleeted. Thank you anon.

[Anonymous No.12119417]

>>12105001
>>12108219
I just want someone to cuddle with

[Anonymous No.12119424]

>>12116093
hello bug chaser

[Anonymous No.12119430]

>>12119417
you're mom

[Anonymous No.12119616]

>>12103126
Nothing about the modern woman is respectable. Nice story regardless

[Anonymous No.12119721]

>>12102657
Last year my grandmother, who was a professional photographer when she was younger, let me go through her old photography equipment. She probably had $10,000 (modern value) worth of equipment that she bought cheap when she lived in Singapore and has kept in decent condition. Hasselblads and Leicas and a Linhof large format camera - the kind with bellows that sits on rails. She couldn't remember how any of it worked.
I brought out a Leica R6 and noticed that there was still a film canister inside it - I flipped the rewind and felt it get a little jammed, so I pushed a bit harder. It resisted and I pushed harder. Figuring that something was jammed or that I had already fully retracted all the shot film, I opened the back and in that instant ruined the entire roll. Rewinding it without properly engaging the rewind-release button tore the perforations on the edge of the roll and I had exposed every shot frame. Pictures of my grandfather who had passed away the Christmas before. The final frames of an artistry my grandmother has since totally forgotten. Pictures of my mother, probably, and her brothers. Pictures of their pets or their travel - anything she felt important enough to memorialize forever. The very moment my grandmother put down her camera and never picked it up again. And I ruined all of them by not pressing the rewind release button.

This is really the only thing in my life that is a real true regret. I loved my grandfather. I miss him more than anyone I've ever known who has died.

[Anonymous No.12120117]

I was born with a personality disorder that disallows me from feeling romantic emotions. I don't feel bad about it, really, I have plenty of free time, and enjoy being alone. Or I'm just coping incredibly well, I've long lost the ability to tell. You guys are great, though. I have fun arguing with you. I haven't been able to properly hold a non-argument conversation with my family for over a decade. My dad's the same way, though, and everyone says we're exactly alike, but he says I'm smarter. I love that old fuck. He's 75 years old and likes drinking and doing coke while building houses and cutting down trees and shit. He rakes in more 20yo pussy than I do, in his New Balances, acid washed comfort fit jeans, and anti-Obama t-shirt. Sometimes I visit him on his private beach in Seldovia and we smoke weed and argue about philosophy and watch war movies. I'm helping him build a gun range in his back yard there. We're gonna blow some shit up.

[Anonymous No.12120653]

>>12120117
You and your dad sound like swell lads anon.

[Anonymous No.12120662]

>>12102657
An primitive, yet essential feeling, that helps us cope with life, along a different life being: a pet, a family member, a friend, a partner. So much so, love, variates to an umbrella of feelings, some more romantic and intimate than others.

[Anonymous No.12120979]

>>12110314
>Is this one of them metaphor things?
/lit/

[Anonymous No.12120982]

>>12119721
Thank you for that. That was amazing to read. I hope knowing the fact that you created something beautiful is some consolation for your loss.

[Anonymous No.12120986]

>>12120662
>So much so, love, variates

anon, don't take this the wrong way, but you should really learn how to write

[Anonymous No.12121049]

26 khv reporting in.

[Anonymous No.12121131]

>>12102666
>tfw eternally stuck on the first phase

[Anonymous No.12121167]

>>12121131
I envy you.