/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15517762]

I'm graduating from high school. Any books that'll make me excited for the life in front of me?

[Anonymous No.15517769]

read the sticky

[Anonymous No.15517771]

>>15517762
kek the good side of life is already over, kid.

[Anonymous No.15517778]

>>15517762
i wish i was graduating school, now i'm a old rag with no prospection in life
t. 22 years old

[Anonymous No.15517779]

>>15517762
If you're going to college take advantage of it, you only have 4 more years till hell. If you're not going to college, welcome to hell.

[Anonymous No.15517791]

>>15517762
Stoner

[Anonymous No.15517798]

>>15517771
OP here. care to explain?

[Anonymous No.15517807]

>>15517779
any hope in majoring in the humanities?

[Anonymous No.15517810]

>>15517762
Unironically, try Les Miserables.
It won't make you excited for your own personal future, but it gives some perspective on how long life is and how much of it can be wasted while still ending up feeling fulfilling

[Anonymous No.15517815]

>>15517778
any profound life advice?

[Anonymous No.15517826]

>>15517798
Childhood, puberty and adolescence were the best and purest years of your life. Playtime's over, kid. Welcome to purgatory.

[Anonymous No.15517833]

>>15517815
stay out of debt

[Anonymous No.15517841]

>>15517798
for most people here, including myself, there was no life waiting for us after high school. We went to college/university, found it no easier to socialize wit the people there, failed to enjoy our time there, and either dropped out and circled the drain, or graduated into the drab and miserable existence of wageslavery. I have no advice for you. If you're a normie who wants to work for a tech company, great, the world was made for you and you'll be happy. Otherwise, you should try to escape.

[Anonymous No.15517846]

>>15517807
I majored in economics, which is close I suppose. If you're not going to a very good school and getting As you're going to have a bad time. Otherwise, you have a chance to not have a bad time.

[Anonymous No.15517861]

>>15517815
read 1 book per week and never stop even if you're crying and almost killing yourself, the suicidal thoughts will pass but the time lost not acquiring knowledge you'll never regain

[Anonymous No.15517868]

>>15517807
Arguably less hope.

[Anonymous No.15517876]

Heed this advice. If you have any greater aspirations than doing meaningless work for a corporation that hates you because your skin is too light, you genitals hang outside your body, and you like the opposite sex, you're going to be quickly disappointed
>>15517841

[Anonymous No.15517880]

>>15517826
I wish I could say you're wrong but that's so fucking true.
The days were endless when I had nothing to do in my teen years, I could have done so much

[Anonymous No.15517896]

>>15517841
>If you're a normie who wants to work for a tech company, great, the world was made for you and you'll be happy.
Unemployment is for everyone these days, capitalism is failing and slowly dying

[Anonymous No.15517937]

>>15517880
every child knows that play is more noble than work
your fixation on making use of free time is what traps you in pointless adulthood

[Anonymous No.15517958]

when did this become a blackpill thread

[Anonymous No.15517961]

>>15517958
when OP asked about 21st century adulthood

[Anonymous No.15517994]

>>15517861
any recommendations? lol

[Anonymous No.15518002]

>>15517841
what should I do with my hopes and dreams anon? time to put them away?

[Anonymous No.15518026]

>>15518002
The hopes and dreams you have now may become irrelevant with the passage of time.
A 20 year old wants different things than a 30 year old, and they both want very different things than a 60 year old.
Don't give up your dreams, but be honest with yourself and be open to re-evaluating what it is you really want.
You don't owe anything to your past self, that asshole died yesterday.

[Anonymous No.15518048]

The metamorphosis. it doesnt get any better

[Anonymous No.15518056]

>>15518026
thank you for the words anon.

[Anonymous No.15518066]

>>15517762
Demian by Hermann Hesse

[Anonymous No.15518080]

>>15518066
never read it. I'll try it out anon.

[Anonymous No.15518089]

>>15517961
Were the romans also such doomers? Were the greeks or assyrians, or is doomerism a new thing?

[Anonymous No.15518094]

>>15518048
Imho, the trial is better

[Anonymous No.15518104]

>>15518089
I have had Caiaphas put in fetters. Also, last year I was crucified by the German doctors in a very drawn-out manner. Wilhelm, Bismarck, and all anti-Semites abolished.

[Anonymous No.15518148]

>>15517880
Days felt endless due to being young and you experiencing new things. As life goes on, you'll develop a schedule and the time will fly by and you'll be 30 before you know it. :)

[Anonymous No.15518161]

>>15517791
What a devil you are

[Anonymous No.15518165]

>>15517762
Sorrows of Young Werther.

[Anonymous No.15518166]

your life is literally over the day you graduate

[Anonymous No.15518223]

>>15518026
also anon, one more thing. Anything advice on what to while I'm young? at college?

[Anonymous No.15518230]

>>15517762
I hope you had sex while in hs since it's over.

[Anonymous No.15518336]

How can I, a social retard, survive in a dorm room with a roommate? How can I, a normal retard, pass college classes? What degree or job can I, a hyper retard, get?

[Anonymous No.15518396]

>>15517762
>all these people saying high school is the best time of your life
I have a Master's degree, a 9-5 job, a wife and an apartment; this is hell to you guys? I would rather kill myself than relive my high school days. What is wrong with you people; don't listen to them OP

[Anonymous No.15518422]

>>15517815
-- stay out of debt
-- never try to play up to or "please" a woman to win her favour - always only be yourself and you will find/attract the woman who is right for you
-- do not try to live via a creative profession (serious writer, artist, musician)
-- read widely
-- trust your instincts
-- get paid legal advice, from a lawyer, when you need it

[Anonymous No.15518454]

>>15517798
it's bullshit. life is what you make it.
remember, you can always move some where new and re-invent yourself.
you are a shy guy with noconfidence?
move to a new city and just be an outgoing guy who chats with women or whatever. NO ONE KNOWS YOU'RE NOT THAT GUY, and you'll become that guy.

choose a cool city (Montreal, Melbourne, Barcelona, Amsterdam, etc) or a big city (NYC, LA, etc)

[Anonymous No.15518463]

>>15517807
Go to university to find a profession, read humanities on your own. Life is expensive and getting moreso everyday. starving is not fun or romantic.

[Anonymous No.15518517]

>>15518336
I was a social retard and being placed in a dorm fixed that. It was like a cold turkey move on cigarettes. You acclimate pretty quick and the impostor syndrome goes away. Try mimicking the roommate and pretend you like the stuff he does so that he can bring you along to fun stuff. Don't try with women unless you can get sex without a relationship.

You can pass college classes by reading the text book and just googling all of you assignments. Exams are not the hard part. You will quickly realize how flawed college education is, assuming you live in the U.S.

Hyper retards get the best jobs. Hyper-fixation and autism logic can get you far in tech (computer science, Information technology, Cyber Security) or business. I would not recommend anyone to go into STEM, again assuming U.S.. There are way too many girls and minorities striving for this because its easier to get grants and scholarships in those fields. You will always get out-performed in those fields and some people can't handle that.

The computer type degrees can get you jobs in which you never interact with humans beside your team or better yet you'll be remote by 2030. Business will give you the freedom to join, switch, leave or start whatever type of thing you want, but at the end of the day it's a rat race and a lot of in-person human interaction.

I graduated a few years ago with finance, but I only tried hard in literature because those were my favorite electives.

[Anonymous No.15518530]

>>15517762
In my experience, coming from a poor and abusive household; childhood and hs years were hell on earth. Life as an adult is pretty bad, but not worse. If you had the luck of actually enjoying your teen years, then prepare mentally for the worst.
Western society is collapsing and there is no future for young men. The best you can do is learn a skill for remote work and take an ascetic philosophy or religion: budhism or stoicism. Do not go to college unless is a good one and your studying computer science or related. And do not look for relationships with the intent of marrying and having kids, such life is no longer possible in our society. You will realize average men and women do not appear to have soul or concepts like love, as such concepts have died long ago with our culture. The best you can do is to have casual relations and sex
You must realize that the life you were told you were going to have was a lie; the best you can do to cope with this is to embrace the devoid society and live an ascetic, minimalist and casual life. Just relax while our society collapses, there is nothing you cant do either way. And if your working class, my condolences

[Anonymous No.15518685]

>>15518517
Thanks for the help, anon. What do you do for a job?

[Anonymous No.15518687]

>>15518223
Go to community college first and get your GEs for cheap. Then transfer to a larger university for your major classes.
Also, try to take care of your body. There's nothing wrong with partying, but get enough sleep and drink enough water and stay reasonably fit.
Your 20s are for being wildly reckless, your 30s are for being stylishly reckless.

[Anonymous No.15518696]

>>15517762
Hesse's Siddhartha

[Anonymous No.15518702]

>>15518454
none of those cities are cool.

[Anonymous No.15518710]

My advice will be to not listen to the fags here. Life is good, and if its not, it can and will get better, JUST STOP BEING A FAG AND DO SOMETHING FOR FUCKSAKE.
(Also like the response on top, read Siddharta, helped me get through school and motivated my quest on looking for meaning).

[Anonymous No.15518746]

>>15518026
great post

[Anonymous No.15518866]

>>15518685
I'm an analyst at an investment bank that some anons would recognize by either logo or name in a Tier 1 city

I make powerpoints based off excel models that I built the week prior. I get paid $30K more than you'd think just for being a keyboard monkey that greases the wheels of the economy. I had to go to many career fairs, networking events, lunch meetings. I've sent probably over 1k emails, linked in messages and DMs'. Numerous rounds of interviewing at all types of companies later, I got a job.

It's ok, Don't get me wrong the work is meaningless but somehow less so than schoolwork. I have a good head start on my savings/retirement plan and I know that if I quit in 10 years, I could coast for probably another 10 before running out of cash flow. I would rather be sad and rich than happy but too poor to express it.

>>15518687
>community college

I never went to CC, but I know they get a lot of hate. University and GPA don't matter much after you get your first job except dick measuring contests and when meet someone who also went there. I went to a no-name school and must've taken an ivy-fags job right from under him. People in my industry can tell pretty quickly when a silver spoon lands in their salad.

[Anonymous No.15520447]

>>15518866
I'm doing a summer analyst gig in banking this summer. Are you planning on staying on with your firm? The analysts I know started recruiting for PE their first month on the job which seems crazy.

[Anonymous No.15520492]

>>15517762
The World as Will and Representation

[Anonymous No.15520502]

I recommend "Sanshiro" by Natsume Soseki. I'm in my second year at university and read it a few weeks ago. It really evoked some of the feelings I had during my first months here.

[Anonymous No.15520515]

>>15518002
you should try to make a social group/circle of people that you value for yourself. Experiment with things that interest you, aggressively seek out people that you look up to in these things, and befriend them. Everything in life is about the people that you know. Not just to be a brownoser social climber, but if you want to be good at anything; a sport, writing, philosophy, or even just lead a satisfying pursuit of these kinds of things, you need people, you will want people. The only thing this world has to offer you is wageslavery, which you should only take up a means to survive. The rest you have to make for yourself. The good news is that you can make it for yourself.

[Anonymous No.15520595]

>>15520515

I do all of the self-actualizing stuff you've described and I don't need people to do it though. Extroverts are the losers, lol.

[Anonymous No.15520612]

>>15517762
HAHAHAHA

[Anonymous No.15521599]

>>15517826
Best time of my life was elementary school. Once reality started setting in in middle school and realizing I didn't fit in it started going downhill.
It's started getting a bit better now as I'm closing in on 30 though. I have more money and freedom, which is ok, and my path in life is starting to reveal itself which is more comforting than I thought it would be.

[Anonymous No.15521675]

>>15517762
>‘Start by expecting the worst!
>Act as if you did not exist!
>Act as if you were not free!
>Act in such a way that you accept the struggle you cannot flee from!
>Act in such a way that you never forget to imagine the end of all things!
>Act as if the apocalypse had already happened!
>Act as if everything were always already lost!
>Act as if you were dead!
>Act as if you were an inexistent woman!’
(Frank Ruda; Abolishing Freedom)

>Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.
-Schopenhauer

Read Proust and Schopenhauer.
Apply to an art school in Paris, Berlin or London. Ignore these faggots and their individual experiences, take your chances, learn from your own experiences my faggot.

[Anonymous No.15521681]

>>15517762
Be a neet and marry a rich woman, it's the easiest road.

[Anonymous No.15521688]

>>15520595
Enjoy your shell. It's a small world inside there.

[Anonymous No.15521701]

>>15521675
Whatever, i'll read anyway schopen, i'm trying tk become the greatesr think of my era, i just want to have a peaceful and enjoyable like

[Anonymous No.15521706]

>>15520502
I also read Sanshiro when I was starting college. Funniest shit when the he thought lesser of the Germans because of Hegel. It has a very Japanese edge to it as well.

[Anonymous No.15522192]

>>15517762

just thinking about you makes me want to cry

[Anonymous No.15522240]

>>15517762
Why did Pollock become famous again?

[Anonymous No.15523393]

>>15518454
Why Montreal, you gotta learn a whole new language anyway if you wanna even go to the store

[Anonymous No.15524852]

>>15517798
Most people become a wagie. And most wagies hate their jobs.

Good luck anon.

t. wagie who love his job

[Anonymous No.15524873]

>>15517807
Better odds if you go into humanities with a specific goal in mind after graduating with your degree. In my experience, a lot of dudes doing humanities had no idea what they wanted after graduation.

Remember, college is not the goal. College is temporary - real life starts after u graduate.

[Anonymous No.15524882]

>>15517815
Un-ironically: serenity prayer & 4 noble truths

[Anonymous No.15524900]

>>15517762
If you’re seriously looking for life advice on an anonymous message board filled with greasy virgins, I wish you the best.

[Anonymous No.15524995]

>>15518396
TURBO NORMIE DETECTED WHOOP WHOOP

[Anonymous No.15525048]

>>15524852
what do you do

[Anonymous No.15525064]

>>15517815
Stay away from drugs/alco and stay sane by doing what you love.

[Anonymous No.15525077]

>>15518422
Pretty based, I’d still say pursue a creative profession if you want. Better to try than to never attempt.

[Anonymous No.15525685]

>>15525048
I am a programmer.

[Anonymous No.15527737]

bump

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bump

[Anonymous No.15527921]

bumps

[Anonymous No.15527952]

>>15522240
he is one of the best painters of the 20th century, only topped by rothko

[Anonymous No.15528009]

>>15527952
hold the fuck up, rothko wasn't even the best in the ab ex generation. he's like B+, I respect intellectual courage, not somebody who repeats and repeats themselves to death.

[Anonymous No.15528203]

>>15518530
thankyou anon, this is sobering

[Anonymous No.15528222]

>>15517778
Dude you can do whatever the fuck you want at age 22. Don't waste it.

[Anonymous No.15528230]

I feel like no one ever has it "figured out."

I used to think as a kid that one day everything would just click, but it never did. There is no day in which such a thing will ever occur. Everyone is always striving, always accomplishing something, but also always failing at something else.

If you don't have faith in something, some ideal that has it "figured out" I don't know how you can keep going. You have to have hope in something.That's all I know

[Anonymous No.15528249]

>>15520492
This OP. Cast away illusions about the world early.