/lit/ - Literature

Did anyone here "grow out of philosophy"?

I mean philosophy in the sense that you seek some permanent knowledge/intellectual satisfaction/confidence by reading and contemplating.

Because it all seems like an endless pit and there's always more stuff to read and contemplate. And it almost certainly doesn't make you happier/confident or more "useful" to society.
(And that's the gist, I guess. Happiness and "usefulness to society" being some fundamental axioms for me.)

In other words, I believed in the power of philosophy too much and ended up realizing that it's just one of the areas of life, not necessarily superior to anything else, but just another path (I hate the life path metaphor, but you get the point).

I think I finally get the mocking/contempt that normie adults showed towards philosophy. I used to think they're just uneducated simpletons (ok, there's some truth there), but I can empathize with them now.