/lit/ - Literature

Not OP but
>43 replies
>29 unique posters
>not a single one of you have posted a serious recommendation
what the fuck is wrong with you faggots

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Nihilism, absurdism, and to a further extent existentialism are very dark paths to travel down. I consider all that shit cursed knowledge in the sense that there really isn't anything you can learn or do to shake that sense of "nothing matters/nothing's real/even if this was real it wouldn't matter". In my experience the only cure seems to be to "unlearn" it so to speak. You basically have to convince yourself that something in your present reality matters, what that something is is different for everyone, and it doesn't matter what it is. You just have to find one thing, or force yourself to consider something matters, by any means. I spent 6 years in that existential rut. There's no way out but to figure out that one thing. For me it was golf. I bought some shitty yardsale clubs on a whim and bought a summer pass at a local public course. It allows me to focus on what really is a meaningless task, that is putting a ball in a hole in as few strokes as possible. But I forced it to have meaning in my life, and after a while that meaning becomes real in a way. An added bonus is that I get to do as much coke and drink as much beer as I want while fucking around in a public park.

For you it could be anything. You're probably on /lit/ in hopes of stumbling upon your life's meaning through a certain book/author/genre recommendation. That could work, but also consider just forcing yourself to find meaning in something, then establish a constructive lifestyle around that activity/hobby/whatever. Eventually your life will revolve around that thing, and ultimately it will give itself true meaning to you, and true meaning to yourself.

He is the most simplistic man on the planet.
Cares not for anything overly complicated and knows how to have a simple and fun time without any worries. Late night Skype calls between the two of us are filled with laughter. Handsome, but rather insecure so he never thinks he'll get any. Little does he know that I think he's astonishingly sexy and would adore to be with him any day of the week because he's absolutely brilliant, but alas, I don't think he feels the same way about me.