/lit/ - Literature

>22
>recent college grad
>live with parents in dull but comfortable outskirts of major city
>work as social worker with homeless, drug-abusing, and/or mentally ill people in one of the ghetto areas central to the city
>regularly speak with people who are suicidal or schizophrenic
>shit pay
>main hobby is reading
>also regularly give people armchair philosophico-psychotherapeutic advice on /lit/ and webchats
>recent obsession with American Transcendentalism and American identity, spend a lot of time with the American 60's also
>little substantial life plan other than seeking more schooling for more comfortable/lucrative/intellectual work
>at least I haven't felt ennui for a while
>>12666224
Varieties of Religious Experience
>>12667236
Focus on finishing Moby-Dick
>>12667399
Spinoza's Tractatus and Ethics
>>12667637
Tristram Shandy
>>12668690
Get into Shakespeare, start with the good tragedies (Hamlet, Lear, Macbeth)
>>12669947
Read less
>>12670246
Walden
>>12670310
Epicurus
>>12671173
Exercise more
>>12671199
Nicomachean Ethics
>>12671322
What's your dx/rx?
>>12671696
Ecclesiastes
>>12671758
Re: insomnia, consider medication but also do not expose yourself to blue light (electronic screens) or other stimulating media before bed. Try out chamomile and/or magnesium and/or melatonin and see if it helps.
>>12671931
EMT's are actively taken advantage of by the medical industry, make sure to use it as a foothold into something better rather than languishing in that role.
>>12673754
Tolstoy's Confession

This thread is tiring and I couldn't make it any further.