/lit/ - Literature

>>13813546
Same thing happens to me

I still dream about my first long term girlfriend sometimes. We dated for 2 years and then were painfully on and off for a bit before she began dating a close friend of mine. Since then I’ve dated maybe 12 women or so, but she’s the only one I still dream about. I recently dreamed that we secretly met up at a log cabin near our hometown, and I was so happy to see her again. It felt like things were finally back to “normal” like they should be.

When I wake up I am depressed all day. I’m sure I rarely cross her mind and if I do it’s with a smirk or scoff at our relationship. I wouldn’t even want to date her again if I had the opportunity, I just miss that period of my life and miss how close we were even if we were younger and more naive/immature.

Probably normal for a lot of people I’m sure

>oh my god evola is so bad he is fascist and racist!!!!!!

I started seriously reading about a year ago, spending 1-3 hours per day reading philosophy/history and stuff like that.

Lately I’ve been wondering if I’m deluding myself into thinking this is productive? At first it was good because the philosophy sort of turned sentiments that I held upside down and I started re-thinking the way I view women/religion/politics/life/death ect., but now I feel like I’m just slogging through abstract ideas and engaging in mental masturbation for entertainment

Has anyone ever just stopped reading because they found it to be unproductive escapism?

>>13668468
t.

If a philosopher thinks that I should act in a certain way, but that way makes me unhappy, what should I do?

>>13524177
I think this series is the most popular one, of the type that you describe.

>>12810719
Harry Potter is a big favorite among these types of people, maybe even the favorite of their collections.