/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14399880]

>wanted to start reading
>couldnt because depressed coombrain
>cut porn
>cut tv
>cut vidya
>cut weed
>have energy, desire to live
>have tons of free time now because break
>still spend all that time shitposting on /lit/ about subjects i have a mediocre grasp of at best
what the fuck is wrong with me?

am i addicted to /lit/ like normal fags are to their social media?
is shitposting on /lit/ the last burden i need to overcome?

perhaps i should make something like a schedule. 1 hour of /lit/ per 25 pages read?

[Anonymous No.14399903]

>>14399880
>what the fuck is wrong with me?
It's simple; you just want somebody to talk to, and anons provide that need, even if you don't know what it is that you're talking to them about.

[Anonymous No.14399908]

>>14399880
>>wanted to start reading

You never wanted to start reading. You just wanted to be /lit/ for meme points.

[Anonymous No.14399917]

>>14399880
It’s because you like Lain

[Anonymous No.14399929]

>>14399880
>tfw spent all day from sunrise to sunset debating over Guénon and David Wallace
I feel terrible. My brain is fried. I have a headache. I haven't brushed my teeth or showered today. This is a new low.

[Anonymous No.14399944]

>>14399929
I remember my first all-dayer. It's only downhill from here, I'm afraid to say.

[Anonymous No.14399961]

>>14399880
audio books are a gentler transition to a /lit/ lifestyle than spending hours with your nose in a book

[Anonymous No.14399971]

>>14399944
I do have hope. I usually spend a few hours here but never the whole day. I've been doing relatively well in my life recently. I definitely need to reevaluate my internet usage.

[Anonymous No.14399977]

>>14399903
i dont reply to things i dont know bout tho
i just ask a lot of questions
>>14399908
nah i'm a /pol/ refugee but i gave up all my previous beliefs and stopped going on /pol/ period
>>14399961
reading is not difficult for me, it's just that reading the sophist shit i want to can be kind of boring

[Anonymous No.14399987]

>>14399977
>i just ask a lot of questions
Well even that is half of a conversation.

[Anonymous No.14400012]

>>14399977
>reading is not difficult for me, it's just that reading the sophist shit i want to can be kind of boring
that's what I'm saying. It's easier to ease your brain into philosophy with audiobooks
It can be easier to grasp abstract concepts when you hear someone articulating them

[Anonymous No.14400044]

>>14399987
>>14400012
if there was a 4chan version of plato's dialogues with smug anime girls and and banter in between all the dialetics i will be very engaged and enjoy it

i'm just a zoomer midwit man

[Anonymous No.14400049]

>>14400044
You're not a midwit, anon.

[Anonymous No.14400073]

>>14400049
i am no intellect and i am fine with not being one.
unapplied intelligence goes nowhere, and that is the story of my life
again, i have all the books i need to read right here.

but here i am sitting down at 8 at night, drinking coffee and scrolling through the /lit/ catalog

[Anonymous No.14400082]

>>14400073
Then go read a book unless you want me to come over there, drag you away from the internet, and pin you down and force you to read something.

[Anonymous No.14400092]

>>14399929
This is fucking it!!! THIS IS IT!!! Deleting my history and cookies! Shutting all my electronics off completely! Going to lock my phone away before I sleep. I'm going to actually read

[Anonymous No.14400123]

>>14400082
ok i will let me just eat dinner and wash the dishes after

[Anonymous No.14400136]

>>14399977
>>14400044
well anon, you go on /lit/ and /pol/ so even if you havent read a single philosophical text you probably know the ideas of a lot of great thinkers.
tell me what you believe now and we'll tell you if you're a retard or not

[Anonymous No.14400152]

>>14399971
/lit/ works on your dopamine receptors the same way anything does
unless you're arguing about something productive and you're increasing your knowledge, no point.

[Anonymous No.14400170]

>>14399903
>you just want somebody to talk to
This. We are more social than we like to think we are.

[Anonymous No.14400187]

>>14399880
read goosebumps and work up to YA and then actually intelligent fare. i'm not joking. you have to retrain your attention span

[Anonymous No.14400218]

>>14400136
i just think man has grown far from what he once was
and instead of going in a direction in which he would be bettering himself he has been regressing, and may or may not have already sealed his own death if ted's self propagation theory is correct

but on the other end there are post modernists that value completely different things, and quite frankly i'm just not well read enough to actually argue against their worldview

>>14400187
it's not an attention span problem it's an interest problem. there are things i find fun which many people might not.
and i would much rather go back to reading homer's epics than reading goosebumps

[Anonymous No.14400242]

>>14400218
you can't start from nowhere. you're extremely depressed so you may as well just try

[Anonymous No.14400261]

>>14400242
nuh uh, not depressed anymore. (least i think so)
if i wanted to read pure entertainment i got a couple of hunter s thompson novels

[Anonymous No.14400268]

>>14400261
so why are you posting on /lit/

[Anonymous No.14400335]

>>14400268
it's fun, only board here i can tolerate anymore and it's probably the best board simply because you can practically talk about everything, literature covers such a wide array of topics

[Anonymous No.14400366]

>>14399880
>is shitposting on /lit/ the last burden i need to overcome?
I struggle similarly—managed to cut it out for half a week or so but now I'm back again.
Remember though that you need good habits too, as to replace the bad habits. If you don't pick up anything worthwhile to do, then by stripping away bad habits you'll eventually just be sitting inert in an empty room.

[Anonymous No.14400480]

>>14400366
well what are other good habits besides reading, eating healthy, and going to sleep at a reasonable time?

[Anonymous No.14400520]

>>14400480
Just go on a short walk every day maybe, start a journal if you think you can.

[Anonymous No.14400603]

>>14400520
>start a journal if you think you can.
how often do you write in it. my life isn't something worth writing about

[Anonymous No.14400635]

>>14400603
it literally is. one day will see the value that is in your own life

[Anonymous No.14400646]

>>14400635
Not the same anon but this made my heart warm. Thanks bro <3

[Anonymous No.14400662]

>>14399903
This is literally my problem. No one I know in real life cares about anything I care about and it's very unsatisfying to have conversations with them, even if I have fun sometimes. I hate /lit/ but I wonder if I'm really better off blocking it forever

[Anonymous No.14400672]

Oh shit I'm on lit haha thought I was on mu sorry guys I'm drunk

[Anonymous No.14400673]

>>14400662
That's a good idea for a novel bro, you should write about it.

[Anonymous No.14400674]

>>14400603
Im just starting like you anon, its been a couple days since I stared but just having something to do that doesn't involve staring at a screen has been uplifting. I write about what I did for the day and what short term goals im currently working on.

[Anonymous No.14400680]

>>14400672
It's okay bro. What are you drinking? Is it with friends or family? How was your day?

[Anonymous No.14400682]

>>14400672
Based

[Anonymous No.14400693]

>>14400635
i am not saying my life has no value, i'm just saying it isn't interesting enough to write about
of course, unless you just mean i write down thoughts i'm having
but i mean, that's sorta what i do on here no?
>>14400674
yes and i can sum up what i did today in a couple sentences
>wake up
>coffee and breakfast
>tidy the house
>shitpost for 8 hours

[Anonymous No.14400712]

>>14400693
how did you start your day? in good humor? did you sleep well?
what did you eat?
why is the house unclean?
what did you shitpost about? for so long?
where are the other people in your life? why are you talking only to us?

[Anonymous No.14400735]

>>14400712
alright i see what you mean. you can dumb down and simplify pretty anything. it take good prose to make interesting out of something menial and the craft of achieving that is something that i should strive for.

[Anonymous No.14400738]

>>14400673
It’s just Notes from Underground.

[Anonymous No.14400746]

>>14400712
Some people like OP simply have no friends, and after you’re done with college you’re stuck being a friendless lossless virgin.

[Anonymous No.14400751]

>>14400738
You're acting like Dostoyevsky didn't rip off Goethe's Werther in White Nights. It's alright to take influence even if your work is very similar to theirs.

[Anonymous No.14400756]

>>14400746
>t. butthurt wagie who spends his free time doing drugs with normies

[Anonymous No.14400766]

>>14400746
no i have friends from highschool. just stopped talkin' with most of 'em.
just havent made any friends in college

[Anonymous No.14400798]

>>14400766
If you’ve stopped talking to them and being invited to do stuff I urge you to retire these connections as soon as possible. Do not let this flame flicker away or else you’ll find yourself in a dark pit.

>>14400756
I’m not a wagie, I’m a 27 yo kissless handholdless NEET

[Anonymous No.14400807]

>>14400751
I’m not acting like nothing. You said that sounded like a good story and I told you it’s basically Notes. I can’t write better than Dostoyevsky and I can’t be published since I have absolutely no connections.

[Anonymous No.14400835]

>>14400680
Thanks d00d
>old fashioned and then yuenlings
>with my based father
>having a fantastic day with loving family

[Anonymous No.14400845]

>>14400798
what do you mean, anon? i'm still a young lad what's going on?

[Anonymous No.14400851]

>>14400845
I’m just saying that you should let such friendships day. If you moved away to go to college, it’s only natural. But if they live nearby, talk to them again. I’m dead serious. You don’t have to be best buddies or anything, just don’t drop this ball.

[Anonymous No.14400853]

>>14400480
Socializing

[Anonymous No.14400857]

>>14400853
There’s no socializing in a vacuum. If you don’t socialize, you can’t socialize. If you have no friends, you can’t make any new friends.

[Anonymous No.14400874]

>>14400851
nah from all of 'em i just talk to one. sometimes i come over to a dude's house if i'm invited tho. play poker, buy people alcohol, you get the gist.
i live in the city and it's easy to alienate yourself here.

[Anonymous No.14400888]

>>14400874
One’s enough. Good luck to you, anon. I hope you can leave /lit/ for good.

[Anonymous No.14400889]

Would it be a good idea to set yourself a goal of how much you wanna read everyday (like 30 pages minimum)?

[Anonymous No.14400896]

>>14400857
Get a job and look for hobby groups and go to bars

[Anonymous No.14400898]

>>14400888
i enjoy /lit/ man. it's fun. it's entertaining, and sometimes it can be insightful.
i'm not sure if i'm just coping, but i just don't talk to people these days.
>>14400889
i don't see why not

[Anonymous No.14400928]

>>14400896
>go to bars
Ok boomer
>get a job
I have one, but I can’t see these people for eight hours and see them again after work

>hobby
I guess this is the only real answer

[Anonymous No.14401060]

>>14400896
People act the same everywhere. In fact no social group doesn't go without making fun of another.

[Anonymous No.14401069]

>want to read
>can barely read anything because literal schizo
Life throws curveballs sometimes.

[Anonymous No.14401963]

>>14399903
this, and what better than the people who comes from a world that's away from all the hobbies you've grown to hate?

[Anonymous No.14402783]

>>14399880
I see no social life in your post. You have time and power, but no social validation. So you desperatly ask strangers for (you)s in exchange for having opinions about subjects you have a mediocre grasp of at best.
Find a social club, join it, attain validation and prestige.

>am i addicted to /lit/ like normal fags are to their social media?
You are 'addicted' to social validation as much as you are addicted to air, water and food. We live in a society. Just like the air, the water and the food are bad quality or outright poisoned, so it the social landscape.

[Anonymous No.14402814]

>>14402783
Based

[Anonymous No.14402827]

>>14399903
based and frenpilled.

[Anonymous No.14403459]

>>14402783
i explained why i go on /lit/ here >>14400335
it's not social validation my friend.
it's a fun board, and it can be insightful sometimes.

[Anonymous No.14403506]

>>14403459
Then you will continue to roam here until you yourself also realize that deep down it's about social validation on your part.

[Anonymous No.14403567]

>>14403459
>and it can be insightful sometimes
>still spend all that time shitposting on /lit/
So do you seek insights or do you shitpost for (you)s?

[Anonymous No.14403725]

>>14403567
both, but i derive fun from shitposts
i consider what i'm doing now to be shitposting
>>14403506
nah i'ma go read later. did fuck all yesterday so i feel guilty.

in fact i suggest you guys let the thread die

[Anonymous No.14404330]

>>14399903
>>14402783
>It's simple; you just want somebody to talk to, and anons provide that need, even if you don't know what it is that you're talking to them about.
I'm genuily curios how much of 4chan's user base has more or less severe autistic and schizoid traits and if that correlates with the time spend on this site.

[Anonymous No.14404459]

>>14404330
if that correlates with the time spend on this site each day.