/lit/ - Literature

>>12294903
Yes this is maturity. I saw a writer in twitter, one who writes for established magazines and papers who tweeted, “ if you consider Vonnegut a good writer I sympathize with you, it’s hard being a teenager”. I thought it was pathetic that a 30 year old woman still created her self identity through this kind of attachment to trivial externalities.

On the one hand i think you should stop it, but on the other hand i understand where you are coming from, so many people today are growing up without an inherited identity. Broken families, race-mixing parents, been in school since birth pretty much. No profession or piece of land to call "your own". People used to be born into their "caste" back in the day, now you're just supposed to "find yourself" somehow. Especially tough if you grew up without a father, i'm sure. My father is a hunter and outdoorsman so naturally i am one too, and i'll always have that as an identity of sorts.

I spent two years writing a novel and finally finished it to no fanfare or excitement from the outside world.

My mother, my wife, my best friends. Everyone just shrugged. None of them have ever taken on something so considerable, especially not a creative endeavor. But they don't know enough about how much work it is to even understand that it takes a lot of work, they think it's the same as the bullshit poetry their cousins post on facebook or whatever.

Anyway, my point is, you can't win. You can create your own art and try to make that your identity, but people will just think you're autistic.

Why do you not have a settled identity already? Are you a person?

>>12296400
>Anyway, my point is, you can't win. You can create your own art and try to make that your identity, but people will just think you're autistic.

The toughest of blackpills to swallow.

>>12296403
>Are you a person?
only in context

what are you supposed to define yourself by? what is one's identity based on?

>>12296427
You don't.

Be

>>12294903
Is this just a pretentious way of saying you are what you eat?

>>12294903
It's a useful shortcut to get to know people, mate. Like, if you really enjoy reading Rupi Kaur, I can assume a good deal about you.

>>12296400
>people think
>>12294903
>identity?
>>12296410
Tough?
>>12296427
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nZTgAGSajA

>>12297228
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZX_XCYokQo

not /lit/, but y'all need better hero's.

>>12296427
how many people you have beat up

>>12296400
what a foolish child, thinking his drivel has any worth
judging by your delusion alone, if take it to a publisher and they will laugh in your face

>>12296427
You just do it
If that doesn't work, do psychedelics and figure yourself out

>>12297494
>do psychedelics and figure yourself out

>>12294903
These kinds of identities are only meaningless if they're made up of raw consumption. If this identity is also making you learn things (and not just trivia) or create things then it is a positive identity imo.

>>12296427
That''s a trick question. The identity (i.e. ego) must be negated to find Self. Take the Vedantapill.

>>12296403
t. 12 year old

>>12297555

>>12297541
If you haven't done shrooms you are an NPC

FACT

>>12299389
You need to go back to the mental hospital or start taking your meds again, Jon.