/lit/ - Literature

Stop comparing yourself to others and stop caring. Instantly the problem vanishes. Have you ever been asked such asinine questions?

>>18419372
It is better to be 20 year old retard than 30 year old retard. Read whatever you want now. If you don't like something, drop it. Life is too short to read boring and useless books.

it is what it is

>>18419372
Young people mainly read shit.

>>18419372
even if you started seriously reading at 16 you’d be ashamed when you hear of the child prodigy who started at 10. I’m going to tell you to not compare yourself to others but I do it as much as you do too desu. good luck

>>18419488
this

>>18419372
Past doesn't exist

>>18419372
Who was that great man that once said, "Don't compare yourself to others. If you do, you will be insulting yourself."

>>18419372
Read more. Now. Start. Just start. You want to total up the hours of every video game you have played and every tv show you have watched all the porn you have consumed to realize that you’ve wasted away 15% of your life on consumptive media that provides only temporary relief from the pains of the human condition? Go for it. But it’ll just make the feeling worse. The best answer is to just start now. Go through all the books you wish you read. The classics you were never taught in school. The tomes /lit/ shitposts about. Just start reading.

>>18419372
You can’t. You’ll carry it with you to the grave. Sorry but more than a handful of us are in the same boat and there’s no use in pretending there’s some sort of solution because there’s not. You simply can’t get time back.

>>18419728
is reading not also a pointless distraction from the suffering of existence?

>>18420572
Stop suffering if you think that

Read more now, simple as
What a retarded thread

>>18420675
so then it’s what just a distraction from a neutral existence
doesn’t really change anything

stop being a bitch and comparing yourself to others. compulsive self hate and comparison are the bases of ressentiment. you don't want to go down that path surely. just read and enjoy yourself.

This is the most subltle bait i've seen in a long time.

>>18419372
>Tfw you didn't start learning Ancient Greek and Latin at age 10
>Tfw you got kicked out of uni but still considered as one of the best classicist of your time

reading isn't a skill

>primarily, the idea of not being nostalgic of the past
>instead, become nostalgic of the future
>people often take small failures as a sign to fail permanently as a person
>the solution, is to simply make no emotional judgement on yourself and correct your errors as a heat-seeking missile would correct course

>>18422403
>reading isn't a skill

>>18419372
I got back into reading at 25, IRL people think I'm well read (which is hilarious). Don't set your standards so high because no one ultimately cares.

>>18419372
There's no point in obsessing over the past, you can't change it. The show is finished and the courtains are closed! What you can do, however, is lessen the damage done by your past mistakes with your present actions, starting now.

>courtains

>>18423055
give me a break it's 4 am here

>>18419372
You don't have a time machine, why stress over something you can't change? This attitude of yours will drive you mad. All you can do is improve yourself in the present.

>>18419431
>Do X
And why is doing so the correct course of action?

Why shouldn't he have these feelings, why should he cast them away?

Did anyone else read a lot as a child and a teenager, going to their local library once a week but only ever reading garbage?
I kind of wish someone introduced me to the classics so I could kick start my journey into becoming a pretentious pseud dilettante earlier

>>18423140
whatever

>>18423140
I still only read garbage, have fun reading about some sad cunt crying about how reality is a meme, I'll be reading about a Loli blowing people up in not world war 1.5 with magic

>>18423163
that’s tanya the evil or whatever it’s called right? how is it how’s the translation