/lit/ - Literature

>>5814923

Hang in there

>>5814967
I am trying my best. Thanks.

If you are sad, it is probably because you are aware.

The more I understand of what's going on the less I like it.

I was sad tonight too. I went to a gas station to put gas in my car and buy a can of beer. The clerk was really friendly. We chatted for a minute or two and then I stepped outside with a smile on my face.

A man, in a hurry, bumped into me. I laughed heartily and said, "it's okay!"

"It's okay!" Somehow those words still ring in my ears a few hours later.

All because what was supposed to be a perfunctory transaction was an unexpectedly human encounter.

I hope you have one of these moments, OP. Small unhappiness is easily cured with small happiness. I hope yours is small and not great.

>>5814980
I'm just lost, wayward, disconsolated. I lost my dad when I was just twenty and I can't get over it. He was only forty-two.

>>5815015

Man, I'm really sorry. I love my father a great deal. He is one of the people I am closest to.

I can't imagine how difficult that must be. I wish I could offer you some kind words that might help, but I haven't experienced loss like that in my life.

I really hope that the pain of it begins to wane.

I'm sure he would want you to be happy.

OP is so sad
I wrote a haiku for him
Chin up, buckaroo

Losing someone close is change in your life. Change is good, even when it's bad. Find a way to embrace it and make peace with the situation. Otherwise you'll be stuck like this you whole life.

>>5815015
Damn dude, sorry to hear that. My dad is a really good dude and the thought of him dying just made me really sad. :(

>>5814978
it's unfortunate that some people resort to this defeatist reasoning

the more that i learn (at this point it mostly takes the form of superintending minutia, i am far too erudite in all fields to be lacking any major piece of information) the stronger and more brilliant and beautiful i become. consequently, my outlook on life improves (although it has been quite high for quite some time now, so it is possible that i have reached a baseline level of bliss and enjoyment in my life)

added 'awareness' should make you more equipped to deal with your understanding of the human experience. but instead it makes you sadder?

this is hardly surprising. plebs will continue to pleb

>>5815076
It's too late. I'm forty-three, older than him now but about 1/1000th as good as person. I'll never get over it. It's destroyed my whole life.

>>5815101
twenty years is too long to be grieving over anything. sorry, but is time to get over it

>>5815101

Nobody is a wasted life. You're not 1/1000th of your father, you're 1/2 of him.

Suicide is an alternative.

>>5815111
I'm trying and most days, I do well. He just never got to see his grandchildren. It's really getting to me. He deserved to live.

>>5815193
And many that live deserve death. Can you give it to them?

>literature

>>5815098
"He knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it."

>>5815193
I know how hard that can be, since I lost my father at the age of 14.

No one deserves to live nor die.
Think about him as the great man he surely was, and not that he is no more.
Everyone you know is just memories and you just will stop receiving them about your father.

I'm sorry for your loss but you must keep living your own life and collect your own fortune of good memories.

>>5815208

quality post

>>5814980
I work at a liquor store and I know I can be the other end of these transactions. Today, a lady who always complains came in today and we bonded over the fact that we've been having flu symptoms. I was really aware of what I was saying to her, and tried to make her leave happy. She had a really genuine smiling upon leaving, and it made me happy.

She normally talks about her daughter not coming home, she looks like she was a young mother and is probably realizing some things she's not fond of.

On the same note, in my neighbourhood I'm known as this happy go-lucky innocent etcetc, I have great relationship/convo with customers, but little do they know they are what makes coming to work that much better.
So thank you anon, we're all closer than you think.

>>5815223
hey, there, new friend.

>>5815015
Recently? I lost my dad at 15, well at 13 really that was when he was struck with the illness fully. It's been a while since then and while I cant say it gets easier you do get used to it at least thats what I found

>>5815711
sorry just seen your other posts. I'm going to spare you my thoughts because I dont think you'd like to hear them

What do you do when a demented/crazy/conspiracy theorist-type guy starts talking to you? An old man started talking to me today about how him and I could take over the Western world (he spelled out Western) and how "God" spelled backwards is "dog" and I didn't know what to do so I waited for him to go to the bathroom and then ran away.

>>5815015
i feel you man
I lost my mother when i was 7 and father when i was 11. Me and my sister were raised by super liberal aunt, who didnt really gave a fuck about what we were doing. She was just providing us money and place to sleep. Over the time me and my sister developed an unlikely relationship.