/lit/ - Literature

>>22005746
>>Why am I so sad and lonely? It must be everyone else's fault, they're just too ignorant to understand my genius!

Yes, quite apt description for a story in which the author in detail shows how all of his youthful fuck-ups were his fault, and how it could be averted. Truly an egotistical ride. I guess the value of self-reflecton is lost upon schizo /lit/ troll like you.

>>21243666
>>Dude...Dude... DUDE! It's called heckin STOICISM!!! It doesn't matter whether you're homeless or have cancer or your wife's bull beats you up or anything! Just heckin DON'T be sad and then life will magically feel fine!!!

I read Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' twice -- once when I was 16~ and the topic interested me, as I was a disturbed young man full of nervousness and anxiety. Many things said in it resonated with me, but I was not an analytical reader nor could I intelectually dive deeper into what the book was talking about. But I mostly agreed with its message -- man needed to be steadfast, calm and not give in to passions. I already act somewhat like that, so it was good, yes?

Few years later, at 20, I read the book again as I was working in a warehouse, 6 AM to 2 PM, after which I was too tired to do anything, but I still learned for University to not be behind. The warehouse wasn't a nice place, I operated old german sewing machines, I regularly pricked my fingers on hooks for material. My fingers went through 2-3 small adhesives tapes per day. They didn't even give us that, I had to buy the tapes for myself. I had minimal training and was the only man in that place, as everyone else were 35+ years old women. My employment there was an anomaly, but I needed money for university. So I worked there for almos two months.

The work was hard and very stressful. As I said, I had minimal training, because the woman that was supposed to train me got sick. So they just told me to do everything myself. Extremely stressful job. Plus the wounds to my fingers I took every day. I used to walk around my bed in my sleep, thinking I'm at the warehouse, operating the machine.

I'm talking about this, because it led me to reading 'Meditations' once again. And you know what?

I realized it was bullshit. It didn't help me at all, even when I reflected on Marcus' wisdom as I worked through the days, and it didn't help at all. It was difficult for me to understand why it didn't calm me at all, until I finally realized: One cannot force himself to feel diferently. I was already as stoic as I could, but that was mostly due to my rough upbringing and personality. I was already almost a saint, as close to a stoic ideal as person my age had any right to be. But I didn't work for it. Because 'stoics' aren't people who decided to be them. It's all backwards, people who are stoics think that's how you are supposed to deal with life, not understanding that it's already life that made them so.

It's basically just experience in action, a consequence of exposure to the less enjoyable moments in life. No book can made you stoic, if you are stoic you were already fucked up.
And then some normie idiot sees a stoic, how a man like that can go through hardships seemingly without problem and wants to be like that too, so he idealizes stoicism, not understanding one cannot force himself to feel in a certain way.

any books where the male protagonist is DISLIKED by women? I found it way to difficult to self insert as any male character in Wheel of Time since even incel Mat has women simping for him, I need something different

>>14654025
Scratching your balls all day is the patrician choice
Then marry an ugly girl from a wealthy family

everything is in a constant state of change and succession. you either fit yourself in the future or whine like a bitch about muh past jerking off to some old imagery.
nature has no emotion and it has a great habit of balancing everything in the best way possible. no need to worry about tomorrow, it will take care of itself.

one must imagine Sisyphus happy. after 80 years it will all seem like a brief second because no one can remember time.

>>13789079
Don't listen to this nigger, OP. He wants to sell you a dog eat dog world view.


If you want to get a girlfriend here is what you have to do.

1.) Start taking care of yourself and improving your fitness level.
2.) Start socializing
3.) Meet girls and start asking them out
4.) Make an online dating account and don't have absurdly high standards
5.) ???
6.) Profit


I don't recommend acting like a PUA, please don't act disinterested for the sake of winning a girl over, but also don't act like she is the best thing in the world. Be interested, but don't be retardedly interested. How do you figure out the fine line between retardedly interested and interested, well you are gonna have to go out there and fuck up, once you fuck up enough times your brain will adjust itself.

daily reminder that the best way to further destroy a narcissist is by inflating their ego (i.e. delusions)

why is the majority of this board unironic nazbols?

>anon just discovered a basic function of the human brain called the reward system
great job anon! now dig deeper and expand your knowledge about neurology and physiology before you shit theories out of your ass to share with the internet!

>>13577726
Good post.

How many of you actually keep a diary here. I don't want any of those meme answers. If you do have one, what do you write about?

E reader, yea or nay? I recently have gotten the opportunity to buy one for about 40$. I was planning on loading some custom firmware so I could pirate books. I would mainly use this so I could get books that I aren't available at my local library. Do you feel that paper books are superior to reading them on a display?