/lit/ - Literature

>>3628816
what do you expect to get out of posting this?
does this serve as an outlet for you?
just curious

>>3628816
the good news is that when the curtain falls, we were all just actors.

We don't control our lives, we just act like it. Chance is the director. It's why religion was so prominent for so long. We saw the chaos and randomness of the universe and reasoned that their MUST be an explanation, little did we know that it really was just noise.

>>>/adv/

you sound lazy as hell, you should go to a support group at least. make some friends that way if nothing else. also, they tend to be free or extremely cheap, so you can stop spending your parents money on therapy you aren't really dedicated to using.

>>3628823
I imagine (hope) that hes crafted an exaggerated tale of his circumstances as a sort of catharsis. I know that when I went through a tough patch in my life I would craft an even worse tale with my stuffed animals (in fucking eighth grade, jesus).

be a nurse nigga two years of school at community // work 3 days a week // $32/h nigga

>>3628824
jeje.
it is important to be 'heard'

> Not having enough confidence to do what you want

Do what appeals to you and stick to it. What you lack is discipline and responsibility, perhaps? Try to find something that makes you proud and gives you purpose, and don't look at it as a waste of time or failure because experts only become experts by practicing through failure. Try working out/meditation, it helps with stress. You got to realize that life isn't about doing things with a plan in mind, and yeah, you can reduce anything into being insignificant. Your wife could be seen as "that one woman who is crazy and only produces these hormones in my head and oh woe is me," but why the fuck do you want to do that? It's up to you to take care of your emotional and physical state. I mean I've met depressed people who seem to be depressed because it's just a product of modern day, that this is the time where problems had to be invented for people to have reason, complexity, and depth. Some people actually find refuge and pride in their hurt without even being aware because it's easier to find an identity in doing nothing and being "worthless" than actually working hard. Humanity has existed for a long time, and things have always sucked. Still, in the past they had wholesome principles or some shit, spirituality or community or whatever, that helped them endure. We don't really have that nowadays, so you have to be independent and adapt. Good luck, buddy, and understand that things aren't that bad when you look at them differently.

why dont u download a life u loser u have no dick

Join the FFL, I'm completely serious.

Worst case, you go through 5 grueling years of service, make friends, watch them die in front of you, learn a new language or two, get shot at, piss yourself, force yourself to go survive anyways, experience more than any normal person will in a life time, get drunk in foreign bars, have sex with women who don't even speak the same language as you, then leave the service and get a nice government job in some town in France.

Best case, you die before experiencing any of that.

Either way, is it really any worse than what you have now?

Too green, didn't read.

>>3629000
I find green text stories to be extremely easy to read. Does anyone else think of green texting as a completely new form of writing? It's like a modern poem style that evolved naturally out of misuse of a quotation system.

>>3629034
It's decent when it's less than 6~8 lines, but more than that is just pushing it and I find reading it is highly unpleasant.

>>3628832
But what's the point if that isn't something you enjoy or consider more important than most other things? I don't see the point of devoting your existence to something other than a thing that gives you fulfilment and joy. Now I understand op might have a problem with finding joy atm, but what about if nursing means fuck all to him?

>think about friends doing shit they wanted
Sounds like you've reached the kind of black hole where you realize the importance of doing what you enjoy, op.

>>3629055
>Caring about happiness
What are you, 12?

well at least you didn't waste any time or money going to school, that's something to be happy about... If you weren't such an asshole and stuck with the factory job for a while at least you wouldn't have money problems.

Yeah, I don't really get depression. Don't know what to tell you other then reassure you that life doesn't totally suck and you should stick around cuz life can be a lot of fun.

Also, sounds like your living with your parents and they are doing everything they can to help you out in life. Stop doing this to them you selfish asshole. Get your act together.

Holy shit. Get yourself permabanned from 4chan, throw your computer and television out of your window, and start picking up the pieces of your life before it's entirely too late.

>>3629034

A kind of poem with not metric, no rhythm and no rhyme? Don't think so.

It is more a kind of epic prose, with short sentences that manage to convey the setting, messages, moods and feelings in an straightforward and tl;dr-ish way.

Something totally brand new, fresh, and that only this little humble corner of the internet called 4c is being able to enjoy in its purest form.

Maybe, someday, it really catches on outside this place. Then, we won't be interested anymore (and will look bad upon it) and it will be spoilt forever.

>>3629057

>>3629071
Stupid shit like hopes and dreams and "doing what you want" are trash you should throw away after you get out of school. The sooner you toss those away, the less pain there'll be down the line.

>>3629076
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>>3629081
You keep using that word, but I don't think you know what it means.

>>3628822
>We don't control our lives

but, you do.

>>3629076
Or be a man about it and get on with life. God damn, I don't know why I keep coming on here. Nothing but a bunch of downers and people with extremely morbid views on life. When I realized my dreams probably weren't going to come true I just shook it off and kept on with trying to achieve them anyway, at least I have something to shoot for. When something shitty happens, like someone dying, or a breakup, or whatever else, I let grief run its course then I get back on with life. My life, by the way, is going no where. I'm uneducated and make shit money at a shit job and barely keep my shitty rent paid at my shitty apartment. I don't sink into despair, I just get up and work on keeping those bills paid so I don't have to move back in with the folks and feel like even more of a looser.

There's a lot of "bad" and shit I could bitch about, but god damn, I don't bitch cause its unconstructive, it doesn't help a god damn thing. Besides, there's a lot of good stuff in life too. Have you ever played a video game? That shits fun as hell! Ever read a book? That shit was entertaining AND I can now act intellectually superior to my non-reading friends. Girl problems? Pffft, if your reading this then you have access to the mountains and mountains of free porn... What the fucks the problem?

I don't know, maybe I'm just a the glass is half full kind of guy. I just don't understand all the sadness. I mean unless your missing your legs, or are mentally challenged or something, there's really nothing to bitch about. If you cant afford a shitty little apartment to hide out in then your just lazy. If you don't like the same dead end job, then try switching it up and getting a new dead end job to make life a little more interesting.

I mean if being all morbid and "life is pointless" about everything makes you happy then, by all means, keep on keeping on. All I'm saying is of course life is pointless, who the fuck told you it had a point in the first place?

>>3628816
Why don't you harden the fuck up?

>>3629101
you gots the right idea

OP, you should try reading self-help books. I know a lot of people here on /lit/ dismiss reading self-help books. I used to dismiss them too but I gave reading them a shot to help me with my depression and it sort of helped.

>>3629101
Your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

have a dead end job? try reading this:

http://calnewport.com/blog/2011/02/14/zen-and-the-art-of-investment-banking-when-working-right-is-more-important-than-finding-the-right-work/

>>3628816
>Not enjoying the suffering of work.

1. Get a job
2. Start getting fit
3. Get a plan / Get a purpose
4. Get friends

How hard is this?

>>3629134
Number three is quite a stretch.

>>3629126

This is such fucking terrible advice. Nobody has ever been convinced by "the problem is you, deal w/it" which is all this kind of emotional bootstrapping amounts to.

>>3629136
No, that plan could be, in one years time I'm going to have a better job. In one years time I'll save money so I can go to college.

A purpose doesn't need to be all-encompassing and no you don't need to figure out the meaning of life.

Here is what will help.

1. Stop drinking alcohol
2. Stop getting high
3. Embrace the panic
4. Listen to the silence
5. Feel the fear
6. Confront it

It's OKAY!

>>3629126
Sounds shit. Average-at-life cubicle jockey trying to use the romanticism of the orient.

>>3629137
It's the only thing /lit/ has to throw at people.

Get over it if you don't like it, loser. Jeezus.

>>3629138
One more.

THROW OUT YOU GOD DAMN TV.
Stop watching tv, it's harmful.

>>3629138
Physiologically I'm a fine specimen. I don't drink at all. I just don't know where to go from here. I've felt this same malaise all my life.

Protip: There is a physiological reaction between body and mind.

If you're mind is happy you'll smile more. But the opposite works. If you smile, you'll mind will become happy.

Mindfuck of the day.

>>3629140

What's wrong with "embrace suffering, the engine of character"? Every day I purposely do one thing that I know I won't like and have never done before, and you don't see me bitching to strangers on the internet.

>>3629147
>If you smile, you'll mind will become happy.
American thinking. To take a line from Brecht: It's exhausting, everybody's always telling me to keep smiling but sometimes I'd rather be depressed, look in the air and not do anything.

>>3629164
>exhausting
get a load of this pleb
you can actually smile without moving your facial muscles

>>3629172
>you can actually smile without moving your facial muscles

>>3629164
Exhausting to smile? What the fuck is wrong with you?

>>3629176
Sorry to tell you this, but Brecht is dead brah

>>3629177
What I'm the original guy who said that smiling will make you feel a little better.

You just sound lazy. Boohoo I get a little challenge in my life and everything turns to shit. Well buddy I got news for you, life is full of challenges and until you learn to overcome them and grow, you're just going to be a pathetic loser wallowing in sadness.

>>3629179
And Brecht said it's exhausting to smile sometimes. You wanted to know what was wrong with him, and now you know he's dead.

Americlaps and their need to be recapped every 5 minutes, my goodness.

since you're contemplating suicide, join the military

they'll tell you what to do, you won't have to think for yourself, and you wan't be able to call off work because they'll own you

that'll teach you soul-crushing responsibility

then when you get out, you'll appreciate what you have now

or you'll die, which is kind of what you want anyway

I'm tired of responding to losers out fear of ever becoming them. It's doesn't matter how much motivational bullshit I type, you'll still live your life and I'll still live mine. This is really for the rest of us, not the waste of space OP. If there's a lesson for the rest of us, life is tough and it's going to throw a lot more bad shit at you than good, that's a fact. Just don't ever give up, always get up and go back fighting. It's people like OP, that try to bring us all down with them.

Let me tell you something, if someone doesn't have the will to go back to school, they sure as fuck don't have it to kill themselves. People like this, only want to suck the life out of the rest of us. Misery is addicted to company.

>>3629076
You can't be a good worker if you don't do something you want to.

Sure is literature in here

>>3629246
That is just plain false.

>>3629144
Ummm. Try finding somebody you care about for totally unselfish reasons, a relative, a friends, someone who you don't expect to get anything back from and help them with waht they want to do. Or volunteer at a place that can't afford to pay workers but needs things done. Do work that is fulfilling because it helps otheres and get into that mindset. it makes it easier to do work for yourself when you have something to work for. do good.

This isn't literature at all. Back to /adv/.

>>3629469
beginning, middle, end
it's litteratre awrite

>>3628816
Welcome to the new generations my friend, where expectation and imagination has vastly outstripped our reality.

Find pleasure in joy in small things, hobbies and the people around you or get cutting, your choice.

thread tl;dr
a. join army
b. that's life
c. that's all your own doing you worthless shitstain

op posted this on r9k a week ago
the first post in that thread someone asked him what he meant by
>shit happens
to which he replied
>spent a few hundred days worrying it'd be the day the girl that made saying i love you so easy and meaningful would die of illness
>nothing quite like a drawn out death that the day you do hear they're dead, you're then dealing with feelings of guilt at how relieved you are it's all over.
and funnily enough someone in the thread thought op should write a book
dunno how archiving works, would link to thread if it was worth reading . /lit/ seems to have made more replies for some reason.