/lit/ - Literature

holy shit he's literally me..........................................

>19
>Whenever I listen to the entirety of Odyssey to the West
>The Divine Comedy

lmao only fat cats could eat this bread

>>9930883
Not him, and I don't know if it's pseudoscience or not, but I have the same thing happen to me all the time. Whenever I tell anyone about planning on doing anything praiseworthy my interest in actually doing that thing plummets, especially if they show some kind of approval.

Even when I do good things in secret, I constantly worry if I'm doing them for their own sake or if I'm doing them just because they're praiseworthy. It's been troubling me for a long time.

>Read really slow
>Vocalize every single word in my head
>Realize it's holding me back incredibly
>Used to read faster back when I was in school, but completely stopped reading outside of easily digestible 4chan posts

What should I do /lit/?
I've heard of people learning how to read incredibly fast, but I've no clue where to begin.

Not really pretentious cringe( though I had a lot of those moments to), but pretty cringe nonetheless. One of my dads friends/clients was over for a house party and brought his daughter, a really cute girl who read the same books that I did. I think they were trying to set us up because somehow they sent her up to my room to look at my books. It was very awkward and we basically just sat on my bed, neither of us knowing what to say to each other. There was only one exchange were we briefly talked about Septimus Heap, she wondered aloud how many books there were and I told her seven were planned because he was a seventh son. Eventually we both just kind of left without a word. I was pretty socially retarded back then, so it's very frustrating to think back on what could have been. Especially given my numerous failures with women since then. Thanks for letting me vent about this.