/lit/ - Literature

>>18600684
>i just did it again. it's exhausting keeping up this facade and vicariously living though my reaction gifs so i've abandoned them. science tells us that within the brain there are things call mirror neurons that help us sympathise with other humans, to feel their pain, to feel their happiness, to connected. so why cant i? why cant i feel happy? why do i only feel empty when i post an omegalul gif? why doesnt anybody love me?
>im a man trapped in a cave. platos cave. i see shadows of the emotions i long to feel projected onto the media i consume, expressed on the faces of the people going by and referenced on the wrinkles of the elderly like a palimpsest of buried emotion. i want to know what it feels like. what is love? what is happiness? i want to know. i want to belive.

>>18600684
>i just did it again. it's exhausting keeping up this facade and vicariously living though my reaction gifs so i've abandoned them. science tells us that within the brain there are things call mirror neurons that help us sympathise with other humans, to feel their pain, to feel their happiness, to connected. so why cant i? why cant i feel happy? why do i only feel empty when i post an omegalul gif? why doesnt anybody love me?
im a man trapped in a cave. platos cave. i see shadows of the emotions i long to feel projected onto the media i consume, expressed on the faces on the faces of the people going by and reference on the wrinkles of the elderly like a palimpsest of buried emotion. i want to know what it feels like. what is love? what is happiness? i want to know. i want to belive.