Your attitude towards life, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.16279925]

What line of thinking gets you out of the bed in the morning (or doesn’t)?

My take:

The mind is entirely plastic, the psyche entirely malleable. Anything you feed your mind over a sufficient period of time will eventually harden into belief, which makes up a brick of your reality as a whole.

Therefore, my attitude towards is simple; I choose to believe whatever makes me happy. Life is inherently meaningless, but we, as sentient beings, give it meaning. It kinda comes back around into life being meaningful after all, from the perspective of a human being.

[Anonymous No.16279930]

I must touch a big boob

[Anonymous No.16279935]

>>16279925
>What line of thinking gets you out of the bed in the morning
if i don't get up soon, i'm going to piss on my bed

[Anonymous No.16279961]

I stopped really caring about people being 'degenerate' and society turning to shit, which was what depressed me before, because I believe that there might be other dimensions and lives, so if we destroy ourselves, I will just get reborn in some other world as some other life and now I don't really care about what people are doing, nor people dying nor war.

[Anonymous No.16279967]

>>16279925
I think we humans are a bridge between spirit and habits.
I think working on your habits gives you a sense of control and cultivating the spirit breeds meaning into your life.

I usually try to see the essence behind the substance/concepts and try to use it as a guiding mechanism towards my future potential

[Anonymous No.16279973]

>>16279925
>I choose to believe whatever makes me happy.

[Anonymous No.16279981]

>>16279973
>He thinks he chooses

[Anonymous No.16279994]

>>16279925
>>16279961
This but without the stupid shit about dimensions and other lives, at least not in the way you're thinking. For the most part, I'm still an alienated early 20s graduate student with few real friends, no romantic potential, nursing a brittle ego, and filled to the brim with rage and resentment. I used to care a whole lot about politics and sociology and intellectualizing the world and all my problems. Now I almost couldn't give less of a shit. I don't really know what happened. I sleepwalk through life because I'm too afraid to kill myself. I dropped the non-fiction I was reading and started reading some literary fiction and it feels a little better. Clashing global ideologies and philosophies mean nothing to me anymore. You could tell me life is meaningless or that it's loaded with meaning, it doesn't really change anything.

[Anonymous No.16279997]

>>16279925
Chasing happiness like a carrot on a stick.

[Anonymous No.16280007]

>>16279994
You’re gonna fucking make It bro. One day this’ll all be your embarrassing, yet obsolete past.

[Anonymous No.16280020]

>>16279997
Yes I’ve read Jung back to front.

I’ve been able to get away with this softcore “pursuit of happiness” just by the fact that I require so little to be happy/contempt.

[Anonymous No.16280024]

>>16279925
I think, "Today's gonna be a good day!" More often than not, it is.

>>16279994
>>16279961
You can call me a bugman, but I couldn't care less about the "state of the world" or such bs. I'm in it for fun, love and pleasure, not for some deep stuff.

[Anonymous No.16280025]

>>16279997
>Chasing happiness like a carrot on a stick.

I don't see it that way tho. I think realized potential is better than happiness

[Anonymous No.16280079]

>>16279994
I didn't mean dimensions and other lives in a dude weed lmao way, but simply that I want to believe in reincarnation.
I don't actually believe in it, for me all three options (naught, afterlife and reincarnation) are equally soothing. It's simply that I feel that I'll "return" to something when I die and thus everybody else and that completely changed my view on morality.
Before I was more utilitarian and was disgusted and really depressed seeing people indulging in useless fun. I still consider the things many people do as useless fun, but I just accepted it as something inherent in nature, that some percentage of humans, maybe majority, just has need for it, and I don't, and it's okay for me not to connect with them.
I'm not really nihilistic, hedonistic, suicidal or sad even. I simply accepted death as a release and I often think about it. I am still scared of it (or more precisely, of what will come before it), but I'm not scared of "returning", as I believe will happen.

[Anonymous No.16280731]

>>16279930

Fpbp

[Anonymous No.16280774]

>>16279925
I feel the best when I am abstractly contemplating life and removed from my own bodily and emotional states. I am one with Schopenhauer when he says that the will is suffering and our only chance at freedom is the abstract contemplation of Pure Objectivity platonic forms or the thing in itself as you might call it. To many people this makes me seem like a distant, cold person, but it is not intentional. I am simply locked in a struggle with thought and everything else around me just strikes me as an intrusion and a rude unwelcome guest.

[Anonymous No.16280843]

>>16279925
Survival is an exception, extinction is a historical trend. Every day you get up is a day you accomplished a goal (whether it be big or small) is a day you did not fail. Get up to spite your demons, get up to make your life better.

[Anonymous No.16280846]

>>16279925
You need to read a book.

[Anonymous No.16281499]

>>16279925
My attitude is pure sloth. A girl once told me she thought my spirit animal was a sloth. I feigned offense, and I believe she meant it to be shocking to me, but really I don't care at all or rather I do extremely. I slide through life detached neither failing nor succeeding, and I know with concerted effort I could do something or even enjoy myself but I am a slave to what I don't know.
I have no attitude about life. My self is nothing but a continual oscillation and reconfiguration. I am no one in so far as what I am is merely what at a particular time I rationalize and convince myself that I am. All our definitions obscure the inordinate unwieldiness and depth of the self which we vainly try to categorize. Whatever state we happen to be in we justify as our real self. There's nothing but an unwieldly combination of thoughts discordant of which I am and am not. The "I" will continue all the same. If I have a personality or a way of approaching others it is alternately cold, detached, inhuman or on other times meek, ruminative, and overly sensitive/emotional.

[Anonymous No.16281547]

>>16279925
Good attitude anon, I adopted a similar one a while back. When I wake up I think the birds are singing and my dog is waiting, what more does a man need?

[Anonymous No.16281742]

>wake up, usually in bed
>see if can find drugs and hot chocolate
>imbibe
>see where it takes me

[Anonymous No.16282671]

I try to strive for what gives me pleasure. Not in a hedonistic sense but in a focus on the good things I can enjoy and stop worrying about the shit I cant.
I used to be so angry at shit I couldn't control and in retrospect, I feel like I wasted my precious time on it. Now I try to see the silver lining and really step back and look at the big picture: I'm alive, I'm free, I have a job, friends, books to read, and a garden I love working in.

I still stumbled now and again and feel that old rage at injustice come back but most of the time I feel content and happy. Maybe I've mellowed with age and experience but who knows

[Anonymous No.16282691]

>>16279925
I serve an ontology given to me by MK-Ultra. It's kinda obscure

[Anonymous No.16282731]

I hate the degeneracy in our world, but if you understand the cultural process currently going on its perfectly understandable and even predictable.
Life is a puzzle and I enjoy piecing it all together. I've found profound meaning in learning about the world around me, in traveling, and in an appreciation of origins. Not traveling for "authentic feels" I mean going out and discovering new archaeological sites, which I've done. Talking to locals in foreign countries about their understanding of the world, etc.
>go to baja California
>decide to go fishin'
>hire a local to take me out tuna fishin (pic related)
>take beer and cigarettes
>after mundane discussion during the first few hours I turn it to more theology and philosophy
>two total strangers from different cultures on a boat at sea talking about god n shit
>he's a mexican fishmonger with little education
>since I've studied the stuff I understand the underlying themes and work with him to formulate his ideas
>at the end of the day he hugged me
>gone back every year, fish with him ever since
>get to know his family
>form an actual relationship with them
Hope you're doing good poncho. Covid killed our plans this year. Next year we'll make up for it.

[Anonymous No.16282751]

"I need to pee"

[Anonymous No.16282760]

>>16281499
>He’s just like me

[Anonymous No.16282954]

>>16279925
i think i have been oversleeping for the past 6 years now and i still have not found a way to fix it

[Anonymous No.16282968]

>>16282760
this is unironically me, i think its better if i would just silently dissapear

[Anonymous No.16283006]

>>16282731
Comfy. How does one go about taking the befriend locals adventurepill?

[Anonymous No.16283010]

>>16283006
by giving them a job to do

[Anonymous No.16283012]

>>16279930
This is what keeps the NPC going.

[Anonymous No.16283019]

>>16282760
me except i can't smile anymore

[Anonymous No.16283020]

>>16279930
If you've read OP >>16279925 you would realize this turns you into a cumbrain.

[Anonymous No.16283080]

>>16279930
>The mind is entirely plastic, the psyche entirely malleable. Anything you feed your mind over a sufficient period of time will eventually harden into belief, which makes up a brick of your reality as a whole.

[Anonymous No.16283150]

>>16282760
literally me except not nearly as sheltered/autistic.

[Anonymous No.16283175]

>>16279994
>I used to care a whole lot about politics and sociology and intellectualizing the world and all my problems. Now I almost couldn't give less of a shit.
>You could tell me life is meaningless or that it's loaded with meaning, it doesn't really change anything.
hallelujah

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>>16279925
>gets you out of the bed in the morning
Me

[Anonymous No.16283460]

bump

[Anonymous No.16283685]

>>16279925
Life.

[Anonymous No.16283710]

>>16279925
I get up to check 4chan. Not joking.

[Anonymous No.16284308]

>>16279930
based department?