/lit/ - Literature

>>18050553
got you covered brother

Miles ahead at what? By the time you’re 25 the only thing people are doing is working and dying. If you mean wife, kids, money then you’re in the same boat as most men I’m sure.

>>18050553
>miles ahead
In terms of what.

Everyone has the same course to run, which is neither too long nor too difficult; whoever finishes it finds his reward in the end, and it matters not who gets there first. So don't fret the lost years, but think about what you are doing now to achieve your ends.

>>18050580
Cringe as fuck Jesus Christ

>>18050580

You need to read a good Biography of Ulysses S. Grant, preferably Chernow’s

>>18050553
>24
>20+ classes behind
>wasted years
>friendless KHV
>everytime I try and things seem as if they'll turn around, something outside my control happens and knocks me flat on my face
>everyone I knew now has a life
>even the genuine retards
>many of them had everything go according to plan, and out of sheer luck their lives got infinitely better
I just don't know anymore. I used to be hopeful Then I became angry and depressed. Now I'm just apathetic to it all. It seems that no matter what, my fate is to exist in a constant state of failure and disatisfaction. I am the very personification of failure, I'd say. But I'd be deluding myself if I said that I'm special in that regard. I'm just another part of the "great mass". Nothing unique or interesting about me or my situation. But I cannot find any good reasons to keep tying. I'm so tired...

>>18053326
I am in the exact same boat man, except that I am 22. But I will probably be the same at 24, for I just waste my days and my youth like I did my teenage. I want to work, but I just end up wasting day after day.

>>18053281
And Mr. Tony Robbins

>>18050553
Yeah it's called stop wasting time on 4chan

The Tartar Steppe

>>18053326
I wish you luck and determination in your studies, SPOOKMONGER. You are not the demoralizing version of yourself in your mind

>>18050553
Miles ahead to what? Death? Sorry if this sounds cliche, but life is not a race. There is literally nothing to achieve and you win nothing in the end. This is a meme the forced upon you. There are surely some productive things you can do and like to do, focus doing those, and the rest will sort itself out. Do not fret, but keep moving, that's the only important thing.

>>18050553
Why worry, you're all ending up in the same hole in the ground. You think it matter which way you get there, or how many boy scout badges you earn on the way?
>>18050580
And of course the vultures keep circling and preying on the weak. You are scum

>>18053363
All of history, people have worked in order to be able to enjoy themselves. Being idle when you're able is not bad. Just chill.

>>18050553
Unironically just read the part of the bible where Jesus invites St. Peter to be a follower

you don't

>>18053326
>22
>babyfaced twink manlet from years of childhood malnutrition
>KHV
>balding from hypothroidism
>diddled by the priest as a kid
>unable to hold onto a job longer than 1 month
>2 semesters behind
>failed every relevant exam
>owe 3k to the taxman
>about to get kicked out of my NEET cave
>autism
>high risk for esophageal cancer from years of daily vomiting
>early stage hemifacial atrophy
>literally wake up screaming covered in sweat from nightmares like in a movies
bros I dont feel so good

>>18050553
>It seems that everyone of my peers is already miles ahead

very commonplace sentiment that is easily dispelled by simply interacting with more people

>>18050553
>get an associate’s that will land job
>groom yourself/lift etc
>interact with people
>rent an apartment
>make friends and get gf
not particularly difficult

>>18053418
Nihilist but Based. I hate those damn Raaaaceeoooooors. All of them just Roooooaacing everywhere. Fuck those absolute tards. This isn’t what life is about and most of them just bash their heads into the walls and out of sheer shit sticking luck are able to call themselves researches or get any kind of irrelevant position.

>>18055409
How so ? It gets worse actually.

>>18050553
Remains of the Day

>>18055302
this could be the roughest one yet

>>18050553
Ask not for compassion not piety, today you want to savor your pain. The pain has taught you to live. - JoJo SeSe

>>18055302
Have you considered employment as a castle dungeon monster? Many cathedrals are in need of a Hunchback too.

>>18050553
Basic Mathematics by Lang

>>18050553
Books themselves are cope for wasted years that took decades if not centuries to write and you months to read.

>>18055660
The bell-ringing sector has been automated and the castle dungeon monster industry is sadly either nonexistant or already completely saturated in my area. My only option is a retail job, a fate worse than death.

>>18050553
St. Augustine's Confessions, he started living at the age of 31, and makes this absolutely clear to the reader

>>18050553
what would you want to be different, what did they do that you wanna do

OP I’m not going to pity you or feel bad for you or try to pep you up. It simply never works.

I will be 100% real with you and let you know that there are no “rules” in this world. If you want to change things you can. Don’t believe Marxist materialist deterministic dipshits. Economic and financial barriers can realistically be overcome. Unless you just got diagnosed with brain cancer or broke your spine, or are in the FBI’s top ten most wanted list there’s still moves you can make.

Or don’t. I don’t care and I don’t feel bad for people who instantly capitulate and succumb to anguish and defeat when they can still change. The world is already drowning in their misery and I simply don’t have the patience to listen to people complain.

>>18050580
>>18055933
You guys are seriously embarrassing yourselves. Please shut the fuck up.

>>18053280
Based

>>18050553
>wants to get back the time he wasted
>goes ahead and reads a book to waste more time

>>18055302
Join a bhuddist monastery

>>18056043
It’s not 2010 and this isn’t reddit

>>18055302
Get to 25 and you’ll be somewhat fine

>>18056575
Its true, when I turned 25 my balding stopped and I grew 4 inches

>>18056356
It’s not the stone age and this isn’t your cave

>>18055302
>daily vomiting
is that caused by the hypothyroidism?

12 Rules for Life
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

the worst part about these threads is feeling like you have a place to commiserate, and then you read peoples stories and realize other people have far more legitimate reasons to feel down.

then you feel even more like a whiny bitch.

>>18057597

>>18057607
what the fuck is wrong with you

>>18057619
?

I just turned 26 and have spent the last six years in community college. Idk what advice I could give you OP. I come from a very well off background and can afford to bum around all day, but all the best progress I've ever made in my life is when I forced myself to do something where failure absolutely could not be an option.

>>18050553
I'm twenty four, wasted years of my life, don't have a degree (not even close), have never held a job longer than six months, have no friends, many enemies, and live with my obsessive controlling parents who are dong everything they can to prevent me from achieving any sort of independence or having a life of my own (they are using my dying cat as a way to keep me from leaving the house or reconnect with my old friends). I spent several months of 2020 homeless and living in a tent in the woods.

So chin up OP, you probably don't have it so bad. Those yuppie scumbags who have cool jobs mostly have them purely as a result of nepotism, not because they are better than you in any way. My advice is take a few steps back and really look at career/social life for the tremendous scam that it is. What matters is having good friends, a place of your own, a car, and some kind of disposable income. Everything past that is window dressing and superficial.

>>18050553
Details about me:
Age: 28 Hobby: Skateboarding/

Any book that you like or that gives you hope. As long as it has a personal use. "Personal" has something to do with personalities. People have different personalities and things they are interested in. We live in a world of free thoughts. Find the flaw in your mind and what is preventing you from doing what makes you happy.

- Those people who would answer that they supposedly "don't know what makes them happy" (fuck those people who have an excuse for everything and want to be super smart) should just go out to a place where people are and then see what vibes they have. (How does the presence of other people make you feel? If you look other people in the eye, you can recognize yourself better.) Useful life experiences are gained when you see other people in real life and not through the screen or thoughts in the book.

Even if you just look at people and don't speak a word, it's still 100 times more valuable than reading a book. This is only my opinion.

One must never forget that the human being is not a button. You can't push a button and expect everything to change all at once.

If you are depressed, you should urgently ask yourself whether you want to decide for yourself who you want to be or whether you want to orient your life on a book. Better write your own book, even better; live your own life

Don't take life too seriously, eat well, move around, play something, jerk off, fuck nofap, be friendly and then everything will come naturally.

And fuck the haters lol. No, seriously, they can fuck themselves like Max Stirner.

>>18056006
>>18057607
If I wasn't such a wage slave I would be making memes as good as these. Goddamn I'm jealous. I'm jealous I never drew Apu weilding the dragon slayer or some Guts brand of sacrifice blackpill. If I could only afford the damn drawing tablet. I used to be a memer like you until I took a Judaism to my-
UGH

>>18050580
Holy based

>>18050553
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb6MWHsEfeI

>>18057869
>Those yuppie scumbags
The thing is I know your definition of this is like anyone who makes over $40k a year which is something a literal retard can do with no help

Death In Venice helped me in that regard OP

Sorta puts things into perspective in the sense that even though you may not be able to tangibly interact with beauty, you can still recognize and experience it in the life you have left.

>>18057869
I was in your situation. "WHAT ARE YOU GONNA BE A DITCH DIGGING LOSER?!"
Started digging ditches. Now I make 60k a year.
Ditches are dug for irrigation and water transfer as well as wiring. If you keep your eyes open you talk to landscapers, electricians, plumbers, etc and have so many systems to plug into.
I also graduated college with a 4 year biz degree and didn't get a job. You know what their jobs promised? 60k a year. Skilled labor is no joke. But your chances in are slim.

How your House Works is a book I'm in right now

>>18050553
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ethti9QJAgc

>>18058542
BASED GOD

>>18050553
To Live by Ching Chang Chong

This novel is about a guy who almost lost everything in Communist China. He had wealthy waste as a drunk gambler and abuser prior to the revolution. He was lucky to have gambled his family's wealth away when the aristocrats were assassinated. Everyone dies but they face their wasted years with humble learned strength. His papery skin under silk robes becomes hardened laborer hands.

>>18056006
how is this man able to be the full 100% real?
mesmerising

>>18057607
>>18056006
Please post more black-pill berserk memes.

>>18058584
I read this one in Highschool too. Young asian boy, Hassan, gets ass raped by Paki terrorist. Ahhh. American Govt thanks for telling me. Abu Grahib anyone? No. Anyway what the 40 year old teaching lady told me was reading deeze books ain't a waste of years. Years later buttrape boy kills the rapist.

>>18058616

>>18058639
Jesus Christ, that's just sad.

>>18056006
You are very based anon. Pity is hostile to life.

>>18058644

>>18058654
Okay, this one's based. Do you have a folder of these?

I'm 31M and very lonely. I'm also just despairing how old I'm getting and still being in this state. Everything seems to move both too slow and too fast sometimes.. excruciatingly slow when in pain, but too fast when I realize months have gone by without getting better. I spend spare time listening to music, wathcing films, and reading books. Sometimes when I can deal, podcasts/asmr/twitch streams (cause those are like friend/intimacy simulators). But even listening to great music sometimes just reminds me I used to be a musician but now don't have energy to. Watching films/reading books reminds me i'd like to make one someday, but I don't write at all. So I feel totally alien to who I used to be, almost just feel like a ghost half in the world.

I don't have anyone and most of the time i don't care about it but if I thought about it a lot, I do care, I think it could help having a friend or significant other that understands and can comfort me. I desire intimacy, love, and respect. People talk about psychological factors in healing, and I think the irony is that just feeling supported is more of an important psychological factor in resting well and healing slightly, than CBT or any shrink could be.

I don't even know how I would overcome the inexperience, everyone wants "finished products" these days.

>>18058639
>>18058668
I don't. I made these on Snapchat months ago and have been sending them Ala Carte to Anons since my pages got taken down. I'm the guy that was complaining about losing my drawing tablet to UGH

>>18058690
Some of them are hit or miss. But I really like the idea so far. You should work on more of these. Where did you lose your drawing tablet, anon? Are you planning on getting a new one?

>>18058704
I moved out of a libshit city and dropped my tablet in the move. It wasn't serviceable. I'm gonna buy a new one. I'm great at drawing. I could draw as well as Kentaro Miura if I had the free time. No joke my family has artists in museums for generations.

>>18058724
That's pretty cool, anon. Are you going to start a career with it or is it just a hobby?

>>18050553
Stop obsessing over the past that you think is "wasted", OP. You won't ever get it back, and you won't ever get a do-over. Make a concerted effort to change what you ACTUALLY CAN, your future. You may not have turned out to be the person you wanted to be presently, but you certainly can become that person one day. But you'll never get there obsessing over how it hasn't happened yet.

>>18058732
Hobby. I do it to stay sane. My hands have a mind of their own when I have a pen or paint brush but not a stylus. The difficulty in having the skill is supplying the right desire in time. Went to biz school and now dig ditches because all my artistic efforts are only recognized on Mongolian Throat Singing fandoms. One of my friends went to cartoon network and almost KMS'd herself out of Steven Universe. I also almost got cucked by the creator of Billy and Mandy.

>>18058679
I understand you but you just have to stand over it and admit to yourself that you don't know everything. Even if you knew a lot about what can be, there is still no reason to be who you are. Because actually you would know better if you knew so much. It's hard to explain, but I think what I'm telling you is that knowing is pretty relative. And let's say you can define certain things well and have your area where you know your way around. You are still unarmed. When you come into contact with people, you will notice that it doesn’t matter what you know or material things, but it’s much more about the "vibes" and interpersonal relationships. I also had to learn that after "forgetting" about it. Of course there are different people and some would hate you for being yourself. That fact alone should make you angry and learn to appreciate the people who would like you.

Skateboarding has helped me to see the world with different eyes again, as I saw it as a child, when I was not so manipulated and myself. I'm slowly becoming myself again. And the way I want to be. You should also try to be more yourself and more of a child again.

Because what's the point of all this knowledge if you can't go out and have a little fun?

>be me
>27yo
>haven't had sex in 7 years
>soul sucking job
>constantly nervous, tense, angry, letargic
>have no idea wtf im doing with my life
>know exactly how to turn my life around, i just dont do it

Just fucking kill me

>>18058822
>Have no idea wtf I'm doing with my life
>Know exactly how to turn my life around I just don't do it
>Same but with ice baths and broccoli EVERY MEAL and books before bed and audiobooks while driving
>Besides that I'm like the bald guy in this channel
>Calendar is empty
>Calendar has weeks of no scribbles
>Can't erase last months
>Erase it 3 months later
https://youtu.be/W9qsxhhNUoU

>>18058704
Some ideas:
Femto Jordan Peterson with a Kermit Behelit amulet during election eclipse ala Rage Comic

Berserk Wojaks

Casca's dreamscape exploitables

Black Swordsman George Floyd with pixelated censored sword

>>18058784
Story time?

>>18058784
Damn, anon. You've still got the skill. You never know when an opportunity might come up. Until then, make some more black-pilled memes. Is there a way to follow your art? Would you like the share that?

>>18058899
Shut the fuck up faggot you aren’t a podcast host plugging a guest hahahahah

Just wait till you're 30+ and not in a LTR and have no prospects and you realize all your friends are losers and that you too are a loser and you thought you were special in some way but you really, really aren't. LOL

>>18058899
I don't draw attention I cannot manage.
I even went to University to study infosys and failed to understand how to meme better after 4 years. I need better econ just enough to get a little wiggle room but I don't have it. Should have been a Network Engineer but my Boomers insisted on University. Just got out of their grasp finally.
I'm autistic about communications channels and only carry physical artwork that's now gotten dusty and is in my cabinets. This meme war has been rough. Haven't drawn anything worth capturing attention since 2016. I deleted all my employment endangering digital media long ago. Everything I post has to be abstracted so much by the time an FBI boomer has to explain it in an office it sounds so innocuous as to be more costly of energy than to persecute. I'm not well read enough to draw enlightening things yet so that's my priority for the Biden bunker years. I open up because I suspect most starving artists to be going through my situation too. I've since read a lot of books on advertising/PR/Marketing, demographics, IQ etc. Thinking of the OP topic my efforts are far and above what the average successful person I'm try my to emulate exerts. Why? Bad position. Priorities must reflect that. I bet you the memer who posted that frog hasn't gone through these absurd lengths to preserve his ability to post frogs. I have and I failed. I will recover that ability soon with my crypto gains!

>>18059006
Fucking autocorrect typos

>>18058794
>admit to yourself that you don't know everything.

admitting that you don't know everything even though you know you don't know everything is an act of reflection. if you just look at this thought and try to illuminate it differently, you can see that it is more of a possibility than a defeat.

people who simply do not believe in god and are more deterministic and reductionistic are to blame for thinking that way. it's a negative way because there is something inhuman to it. it's like a curse, people get arrogant and cynical, literally shitty people, because they want to be right with their knowledge. they want to win the argument and prove they have a high iq or something. they act like they know everything. that's the problem. and it's not even their own thought, it's been planted. the shit is so ridiculous and it always triggers everyone and causes debates right away. one of the most violent conflicts in the human mind, shit is in the air 24/7, I swear. it plays its game in secret and is in the mind. because the institutions make you mentally disabled. the shit has been going on for 300 years or more.

either you choose god (I'm not talking about religion but about belief) and love and a living universe or you choose a dead world, dead matter, hopelessness. In the end the decision rests with you and everyone dies at some point. The very fact that we were all born and will all die should make us brothers.

>>18059044

excuse me, *and sisters*

>>18053429
>And of course the vultures keep circling and preying on the weak. You are scum
>vultures
If there are any vultures here, it's you, gate-keeping bastards. Surely you have his best interests in mind, and we are the evil, corrupt "vultures." Has it ever occurred to you that we could be the same, regardless of your misconceptions?

>>18058822
>>18058851
Lmao I know that guy irl. He's a good bloke and it's nice to see his channel is becoming popular.
Don't really agree with him though. Sure you can try to maximize every day, work out, climb the social ladder, but is all that shit really going to make you happy? Just because somebody has a successful youtube channel doesn't mean that they have any special access to knowledge you don't. Personally I've had quite a lot of happiness from seeing my pessimistic doomer copy-pastas get a lot of replies from people calling me based, and it's a kind of genuine sort of self-satisfied happiness that waking up before 7 and taking a cold shower has never given me.

The truth, as far as I can see it, is that it makes no difference if you wake up at 6am or if you wake up at 3pm. This kind of autistic work ethic where you have to be maximizing utility, happiness, whatever the fuck, does that really give life any sort of meaning? You were screwed from the start, because the truth is this society doesn't give a fuck about you or your happiness and is in many ways built to undermine it. Maybe you live in trash. Maybe you get up early and clean it all every day. Its window dressing around the heaping pile of shit that is your life.

The sooner you stop worrying about such inane problems, and the sooner you stop treating basic anxieties that every person has as some sort of existential crutch keeping you from 'achieving your full potential' the sooner you can actually articulate a kind of free agency in life that is authentically your own. Like the guy in that video, he was raised by a family of doctors, privately educated, very religious, musclebound and athletic too, musically talented, in every respect a superior human being, and yet he spends his time documenting his insecurities (after all, how could he make any of these videos without these issues being close to his heart?) and making one video after another about how hard it is to be happy while pretending he has the answers.

The real solution to being happy is probably very banal. As far as I can tell it consists of having a lot of people around you telling you how great you are and praising you, having some hot pieces of ass who will ride your dick, and being financially well off. Of course, status hierarchies being what they are not everyone can be at the top and this means most people will always be inherently unhappy. Does this mean you should wake up an hour earlier than everyone else so you can maximize your time striving to pull ahead in the rat race? I don't know, woke up at 3pm today and probably won't go to bed until I watch the sun come up tomorrow. Maybe you should just check out of this stupid system and read a book. Schopenhauer always makes me happy, personally.

>>18059387
thank you for this post, maybe I'll read Schoppenhauer one day, sounds based.

>>18058851
>>18059387
The duality of man

>>18059387
black pilled af. i also do not agree with work ethic get up early bullshit but don't act like you know anything about happiness either. Its very complicated, but my opinion is that sooner or later there is something in life that happens and it makes you happy, you just know it because you feel it. at that point it does not even matter when you wake up or what diet you eat or how often you shower. Youre just happy. I just dont know what that thing is

>>18053328
>make it stick
Thanks for posting this, I just started reading nonfiction yesterday and im learning politics. Im anxious of forgetting what im learning and it doesn't seem to stick to me.I want to be knowledgeable on something as if it's in the back of my hand. Is that book really helpful?

>>18053326
>>18055302
One day you faggots will be a 30 year old boomer like me and see how retarded it is for people in their early 20s to talk about their lives being wasted.

>>18053272
>thinking the bible is cringe

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>>18059387
Let's see your copypastas lad.
Also, how do I into Schopenhaur? I read some snippets and I genuinely feel like I'm too much of a brainlet to get through World as Will

>>18051772
dont fucking ask that question like you dont know.

Fuck off all you looser fags who says "lol idk what your talking about"

>>18059565
Theres this 3 hours YT vidya about him titled "studies in pessimism" ,greatly recommended.

>>18056043
You've never read the Confessions, have you? It's not just a theological work, it's also an early autobiography about someone who was leading a depressing, dead end life and ended up becoming one of the most powerful, influential men of all time. If that's not a good read for someone who's trying to get inspired to stop doing so shittily then what the fuck is?

>>18050553
Comparison is the thief of joy. Stop viewing yourself relative to others and follow your own path.

Why is /lit/ filled so many "woe is me" faggots. Did they all just hoard themselves in this thread for self-flagellation? I just don't understand the complete faggotry here. Maybe its because I just don't have obligations, or worries, from trivial things. I think a lot of people are just dumb kids succumbing too easily to social pressures.

>>18055933
damn. thank you for telling me about him

>>18060423
It's not /lit/ it's this website, and why do you think? It's not really that hard to understand. Life is difficult and hard to understand, and most of us are trying to find meaning, accomplishment, or purpose in our existence, and in case you haven't noticed, the majority of great literature out there also deals with these themes.

>>18060423
Yeah, if you’re a NEET that’s literally never done anything and never have to, you wouldn’t. Alternatively, if you’re a successful hyper normie, you wouldn’t. In either case, what good does it to you to point out to the blind that you can see just fine? If you haven’t noticed that depressed people tend to read, then you should try actually reading.

>>18060452
>Life is difficult and hard to understand, and
Its really not though. You just eat, chop wood, and then you die. Its not difficult at all to be ordinary. You make it difficult when it really doesn't have to be.
>>18060466
Its good to point out that I don't want to be such a whiny, bitchy, miserable person so that I don't infect other people with my whining. You're a good case study of what I don't want to be.

I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I’m “behind”. I’m just miserable desu.

>>18059995
Do you see this in anybody else? I don't. There are happy people, but they're pretty rare, most people I know live miserable and they die miserable and maybe they spend their whole life waiting for that little switch to go off in their brain so they can be happy but I've never seen it happen for them.
Happiness is having a nice meal, a calm heart, a pretty girl, and fresh mountain air. Happiness is a fresh creek in the springtime. Happiness doesn't give a crap about you.

>>18060499
Thanks for enlightening us with your higher ways, so insightful, now fuck off.

>>18060530
Oh, I'm not high at all. I'm very humble and well-mannered. I'm just a normal person calling out what I see. Calling a spade a spade.

>>18057597
I'm a bigger loser than you

>>18055449
>make friends
literally impossible

>>18056318
Actually a good suggestion.

>>18050553
Nothing you read will give you back the years you think you wasted. Fuck cope, what you need is acceptance. After that, go ahead and live if nothing is holding you back.

>>18055302
holy shit you're an actual lost cause. go kill yourself you fucking freak!

>>18057570
Not that I know of. Its just really bad anxiety I think. Forgot to mention that it also left me with growths in my esophagus that make swallowing food a pain in the ass.

>>18060423
For me, it's the soul crushing vaccum of the pandemic

>>18060152
Just get the audiobook and get it done in a day. It's helpful for communications and it has a lot in common with Atomic Habits. You accept the curse of knowledge and that rewiring your brain isn't as easy as you think it is that there is a process and a cost to it. This is the curse of knowledge so when you load your expectations on others they always fail because they need to feel rewarded with some understanding without yet having knowledge. This is cause for the most hair splitting syntax of advertising and other details overlooked that made the difference in the other case studies in Make It Stick, like "Don't Mess With Texas" reducing littering by a lot.
Basically "is this befitting of me" is far more rigorous and motivating than "I can I should". This inner dialogue is worth discussing with the business discussion that is Make It Stick. It's one of those business books that make life easier in dealing with everyday people everyday including yourself.

>>18056006
absolutely based advice.

>>18059995
Being happy with oneself is like gardening. Being happy about work or a lover or family is far faster and more stimulating. I gave up on "happiness" as any sort of compass or purpose in life after my divorce. I accepted that metrics and meaning convolute in ways that determine biological processes like happiness for me. Meaning however is suprabiological. Body counts determine romantic attachment. Lust vs chastity determines emotional investment. Thus marriage is a transaction needing a fund for nest egg and dowry. These underlying mechanics are now being rediscovered by our hyper Erudite Zoomer master race unearthed from the hypersensitive insane Boomer regime. Emotional responses are as fickle as electrical charges, that being what they are as potentials after all.
David Goggins' Book "Can't Hurt Me" taught me to stopped being a whiny poopy pants bitch but it didn't resonate with me in feeling good by running it out because he runs cardio as his big accomplishment being weight loss. My marathon isn't running without killing myself it's to endure the insanity in Clown World and build an estate as bulwark. I'm more like Goethe the Statesman in diapers. I have to ride the tiger and all that Faust jazz. So I don't give a shit about happiness just about its electric potential to turn my hamster wheels until my estate is built.

>>18060318
Schopey is really simple to understand.

People will tell you you need to read Kant first, in a sense they're right, you won't understand the epistemology or any of the higher philosophical concepts; but let's be honest, you only want the cool black-pill stuff, and for that you need to introduction.

I really can't stand some Ted Talk corporate speaker lecturing me on HAPINESS when he's standing up there on a podium or big industry shilled 15 minute pump thinking "Oh God if I get too comfortable some fat green haired Lesbian is gonna ruin my career".
But this HEDONIC TREADMILL buzzword going around is worth that trouble.
These buff guys talk about it and yes their baseline as rich famous buff alphas is far above happiness to the normal person. These buff guys get to talk science and broscience and thus Civilization as a whole depends on this life force as it rebels against this life force. It's encouraging AS FUCK to hear them say how great their lives are. Their friendship on camera is also desirable. I don't have frens IRL. I have an endless army of Boomers and their goblin zogbots bickering at my every word and move. I am behind enemy lines but that is my quest to build a beacon for you lads to find and congregate and develop like these big guys.
https://youtu.be/1dRX73GSoJU

>>18058679
Holy shit you're literally me. Exact age. Also a burnt out musician. Wtf. I'm going back to bed.

>>18057597
For me it's the opposite, I read other peoples stories and they seem much more well adjusted than me. I can't take people seriously when they say they have actually had a job or have friends.

>>18055302
The fact that you're still alive and still here in 4chan is amazing. Anyone else in your position would've killed themself a long time ago. You can kill yourself fag, you earned it.

>>18062031
You sound like you're far off the deep end.
Most jobs and most friendships are fake. The world is at peak coercion but there still are real jobs and real friends. Real jobs and real friends are as vital as the Aorta and Medulla Oblongata. No retail worker is truly essential. To read a book a out something that matters and will get you a job/friends requires you put yourself through the grueling discovery of your atrophies. You will expend burnout redline energy if you listen to the obvious paths paved for you as traps: the bullshit jobs and the bullshit friends. But you're not gonna be stuck in retail. You're gonna look at the pipes, the wires, the dirt that needs moving you will find something that will allow you to channel force over distance over time into cash: WORK. Without WORK there is no WORK. Maybe it's electrical and sophisticated maybe it's some woman HR shit. You need to find it.
How Your House Works
The Art of Knotting and Splicing
Just pick up a title and develop a skill somewhat and opportunities will come. Beware of bullshit certifications. Only certify the knowledge that Is inherently worth it so if the employer doesn't come through your knowledge does apply.

>>18058851
Good video desu.

>>18058724
Have you considered illustrating a story manga-style of a story posted on 4chan?

If you're up for it I could post something.

>>18056006
I like this post

Too many edgy tards in this tread to count and shame but in general:
1 - Edgy atheists. Even when I was an atheist I knew that religion was the answer for most people, not because of salvation of the soul, but because of inner peace, self-improvement, traditional values, rejection of contemporary vices and nihilism, gratitude and community. Maybe it's not for OP, but it could be.
2-"It's only a race to death at the end so why worry?" Why are you even alive then you retards? Do you think you are helping? Go on and finish the race then. Let other people look for joy in beauty and in victories
3- emotional children with no understanding what maturity is about so they keep badmouthing going after real things and improving oneself. Maturity is both accepting your limitations and accepting your obligations. We were all born to do the same things so if others can plan ahead and achieve their goals, so can you.
4- people selling intellectual copes about accepting one's fate, rejecting expectations and demands and giving up. Fuck you losers. You can always start improving and you can always do better.

>>18050553

NEVER focus on what others are doing
NEVER compare yourself to others
This is YOUR life
You don't need to cope
My friend, you need to get started

Focus less on causes and justifications for your position and focus more on actions you can take to improve it.
I learned I had spent way too much time seeking to understand my position, trying to place blame on myself, others, society, and nature, but that doesn't do me a damn bit of good. Once the problems are identified, and they are usually easy to identify (I'm fat, I'm single, I play too much video games, I post on 4chan, I feel unhealthy, etc.), then you can take action on them. And don't get paralyzed trying to decide on the optimal path. Just start trying, learn, see what works, adapt as you go.

>>18056043
>nooooooo you can't answer OPs question with something I don't like
>what do you mean make my own suggestion? it's easier to tell you yours is bad

>>18056620
Post physique and tell us how many SSRIs you are taking.

>>18053429
>preying on the weak
We are trying to save people Idiot

>>18050553
philosophy is often times a product of too much time to be even able to think about shit like this. stay busy and do the things that need to be done

>>18050553
Proust said something like we are the sum of what others perceive us to be. We like to believe that we can assert our own identities and transcend above our circumstances but the issue is that we are not exceptional. While we cannot be beholden to what others perceive us to be, when one does not have the substantial and material achievement and possessions that others do, it does affect you. Some overtly while others more surreptitiously. Having a loving family, respect of your peers, material wealth and freedom are essential for a dignified life as dignity is an performative value.

Yet, do not despair. Like Proust, embark on a mission to regain lost time.