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How do you deal with the fact of your own soul crushing mediocrity, /lit/?

>> No.10661823
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10661823

>>10661700
Wait for my inevitable death with open arms

>> No.10661863

>>10661700
other than Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart, every other human who has ever existed has been mediocre so it doesn't bother me.

>> No.10661870

>>10661863
I like /lit/ sometimes. This is one of them.

>> No.10662015

Mediocrity is a bitter bliss the majority of this earth have to face. However, when we see what society believes is excellence it makes me at ease with my own mediocrity.

>> No.10662071

>>10662015
What society believes is excellence is irrelevant. On the inside, you know what true excellence is and you know just how short you fall of the mark. This consciousness of your shortcomings vis a vis true excellence is a crippling wound that will plague you all the days of your life.

>> No.10662077

you know mediocre writers, or people in general, can still be extremely successful. Look at stephen king, or that harry potter slut. If you work your ass off, keep motivated, really go for the gold, you can still win big.

The real problem is you're a lazy fuck, on top of being mediocre.

>> No.10662103

>>10662071
If what society believes is irrelevant, what is our overall reference level of greatness? We must make it irrelevant, but it's nearly impossible in a world of majority rules. In the spectrum of time we are our own judge. Meeting your own greatness can only happen when you've reconciled with your grievances and merge your identity with the person you truly want to be. Our own acceptance is our path to excellence.

>> No.10662104

>>10661700
I deal with it by realizine almost everyone is mediocre and by being slightly less mediocre than anyone else I will stand out. So just a little effort, a little step outside of the edge of the crowd will make people follow you.

Sorry for saying it in such a faggy way.

Rate my Valentine's letter btw.

For Valentine's I send you these friends of mine. They are not mere flowers but two dozen mirrors. Shine your eyes and in them you will see the beauty hiding behind my iris when you smile at me.

be gentle please

>> No.10662150

I laugh at it, and then I laugh harder, until I laugh so much I can't laugh and then I'm back to numb, and then I laugh, and so it goes on.

>> No.10662160

>>10661823
Why is being obese good again?

>> No.10662162

>>10662103
If you are capable of being the person you truly want to be, you probably just have low standards.

>> No.10662208

>>10662162
Why reach for the stars when I can barely touch the ceiling?

>> No.10662233

>>10662104
It's trash.

>> No.10662269

>>10662233
That was better than I expected

>> No.10662279

>>10662208

why get out of bed when i can lie there all day?

>> No.10662289

>>10662279
I honestly don't know.

>> No.10662310

>>10662289

lay in your bed and die then

>> No.10662362

>>10661700
I think about others who are even more mediocre than I.

>> No.10662368

>>10662362
good strategy, imo

>> No.10662370

>>10662160
Fat keeps you warm

>> No.10662383

>>10662279
>>10662289
God damn boys get outta bed. I know this world sucks a fat cerebral dick but shit man its got some good things. Like books, films, vidyas and tiddies.

>> No.10662399

>>10662362
you have to be really fucking vain for this to work.

>> No.10662409

>>10661700

I don't

>> No.10662414

>>10661700
Compared to what? I've yet to meet another person. Well, that's a lie. I met 'the other' twice in spiritual realm. Terrifying experiences, I tell you. Mind you, it wasn't so much me being mediocre, but me being completely outclassed.

>> No.10662462

>>10661870
>>10661863
mozart is nowhere near beethoven and bach you stupid semi-literate shitbags i hate you

>> No.10663902

>>10661700
>tfw mediocre
books for this feel?

>> No.10663914
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>>10662462
>f-ffuck you mozart i h-hate you!!!!111
is pic related you?

>> No.10663918

>>10662462
Mozart is better than Beethoven, this isn't even up for discussion. Bach is probably better than Mozart but the two of them are in the highest tier of music, and Beethoven is in the second tier

>> No.10663997

>>10662077
The thing is, Stephen King and J.K. Rowling are only mediocre in comparison to the rare superhuman geniuses who've survived the ravages of time and managed to continue being studied and discussed today. They can't compete with the greatest minds to ever walk the face of the planet, but compared to you and most other aspiring writers today, they're beyond elite. Both of them have achieved billion dollar sales and critical acclaim, started their careers over under secret pen names, and then promptly reestablished their success. They may not be geniuses worthy of the canon, but they have an undeniable and rare creative talent that places them above well above mediocrity

>> No.10664338

>>10663918
You are delusional

>> No.10664353
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10664353

By comparing myself only to who I was yesterday. You know what they say about the journey of a thousand miles anon.

>> No.10664361

>>10664353
someone should lock alan watts in a room so he can 'just be alive' there

>> No.10664363

You nihilistic fucks.

>> No.10664370

>>10664361
You misunderstand. Why?

>> No.10664387

>>10664361
The mind is endless. You put me in a dark solitary cell, and to you that's the end, to me it's the beginning, it's the universe in there, there's a world in there, and I'm free

>> No.10664443

>>10664387
That's got to be a Charles Manson quote or very similar. Do these guys know something I don't?

>> No.10664533

Nothing wrong with being an average person, you could be a bad one...

>> No.10664546

>>10661700
Im not mediocre at all

>> No.10664554

>>10664443
this is an old idea, its mentioned in the Daodejing, in the Platform Sutra, in many random hermeticist texts from the middle ages and enlightenment, im sure some surrealists and new ageists have said it as well. But yes specifically I do think Manson has said this, something about him building inside (prison) while the others were trapped outside and how he was advancing mentally and spiritually past others, i would believe it if it wasn’t obvious he was becoming dumber the longer he was incarcerated until his death from the Hep C and AIDS from all the rayp sex he’s had

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>>10664554
I love re-reading the Tao Tea Ching, Loud Sue is my favourite female philosopher.

>> No.10664670
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10664670

I have never met a person on a higher level than myself. Upon realizing this in my late teens I went in the complete opposite direction lamenting against that truth by viewing it as 'cringy' and seeing those around me as equal. This could not go on past a few years as the truth kept creeping back and infect my mind with bitterness. I've met professors, successful entrepreneurs and creatives, virtuous religious men, daring individuals, men who seem to fit perfectly in the social and sexual world with a genius within that realm that could unlock anyone, and yet despite all this upon submerging myself into their mind I see nothing but a lesser being, a slave to their lesser desires without any ounce of true introspection. Am I denying there is nobody on earth greater than me? Of course not, but only the people I interact with concern my mind and I've already come to my conclusion about their worth

>> No.10664700

>>10664443
Yeah Manson.

>> No.10664753

>>10664546
i can tell you are.
faggot

>> No.10665179

>>10661700
By knowing wizard powers come to me 10/30/2020

>> No.10665184

>>10661700
Acknowledge it and work to surpass it. Everyone starts off as a fool.

>> No.10665223

>>10664670
You're a useless human being. To yourself and everyone around you.

>> No.10665267

>>10661700
i drink a lot
>>10661823
also this

>> No.10665273

>>10661823
thats fucking herlarious, but fatty really should lose some weight.

>> No.10665275

>>10664753
Sure

>> No.10665277
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>>10661863
Chopin you dumb faggot

>> No.10665282

>>10662104
>Shine your eyes and in them you will see the beauty hiding behind my iris when you smile at me.

This will surely confuse the young girl

>> No.10665285

Can someone on lit pls help. I was talking with a disaffected colleague of mine much smarter than me and he recommended I read someone named Birkenstein or Birkensmelt. Something with a B. He apparently writes about postcapitalist life or what society could be like without capitalism

>> No.10665286

>>10661700
By shitposting.

>> No.10665289

>>10662383
Those are all literally escapist tools to avoid the real world.

>> No.10665295

>>10663918
how the fuck are you idiots even measuring this

>> No.10665299

>>10664353
that's deep, I like it

>> No.10665300
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Michelangelo made this when he was 23.

Twenty Fucking Three.

What have you done with your life /lit/?

You either got it or you dont.

>> No.10665305

>>10665300
Yes but society infantilizes us. 23 is the new 14

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>>10665300
fuck im retarded, the best thing i ever came up with is this at the age of 25. Took me 9 hours.

>> No.10665332

>>10665300
I cleaned my room yesterday you fucking post modernism nazi

Gtfo and go study marxism

>> No.10665344

>>10661700
By making peace with the fact that history cannot be changed and we have to wear our past mistakes like stains on a t-shirt, no matter how bad we wish we could've gone back in time and changed what kind of person we were.
There's a certain liberty in knowing that nobody is exempt from entropy. We will all die and wither one day, and nobody will be around to remember what embarrassing shit bags we were.
But until then, it's business as usual.

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>>10665223
>utilitarianism

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>>10665300
>sculpture past the 18th century
What I'm doing with my life is not concerning myself with dead mediums

>> No.10665545

>>10661700
I have the reverse problem. I have a much higher intellect than average but I'm inhumanly incompetent in everyday things.

>> No.10665946

>>10661700
>How do you deal with the fact of your own soul crushing mediocrity, /lit/?
By being rich. The best way.

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>>10661700
By becoming better

>> No.10667822

Drugs

>> No.10669867

*sigh*

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>>10661700
>Mediocrity
Honestly in what sense? I have spent my life developing skills and pursuing passions like anyone else, having regrets is natural but nothing to be overly upset about.

To fantasize about having capacities beyond our nature is distinctly niggerish and shows just how low mongrels like you are intellectually.

What is more upsetting is not living up to your capacities because of unnatural societal restraints. To max out our capacity is a blessing we do not have the pleasure of seeing very often in this deluded society, to dwell on a limit that you never reach is the most pathetic thing I have ever heard of.

>> No.10670063

>>10661700
Drink until you cant speak proper anymore
get into poetry
Fuck it man, just drink
Youll come off as the new bukowski
Or something.

>> No.10670070

>>10661823
I think most of the more serious problems associated with materialism come from an insanely pathological fear of death. There's a good 30% of society who think they can become immortal by eating particular organic foods and doing the currentyearstrendyexerciseactivity(tm). They definitely won't die alone and suffering horribly from multiple organ failure at 85. The other portion of the population just gives up and embraces hedonism with shit like obesity, drug abuse, etc to ward off the impending "nothingness" that these fucking mongoloid sheep have convinced themselves exists for no good reason.

>> No.10670074

>>10669962
>projecting

>> No.10670077

>>10665277
>shitpin
>anywhere near anyone in terms of anything
wow

>> No.10670173
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>>10661700
I play a pretty good banjo, and that's good enough for me.

>> No.10670203

>>10665300
How can this board be so perverse that it reduces a classical masterpiece to another reason to wallow in your own self pity. Look at that fucking statue! It's gorgeous and a testimony to human excellence.

>> No.10670217

>>10661700
I do my best to not be mediocre.

>> No.10670469
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10670469

>>10665300
>>10670203
>>10665332
>>10665520
>Human excellence
I wonder what Michelangelo had that you all don't.

>> No.10670489

>>10670469
He lived in renaissance Italy
Whereas I live in shithole Italy

>> No.10670525

>>10670489
>psychotic coping to avoid the issue

>> No.10670543

>>10670070
Death is a scary thing but also a liberating thing too. For example if you fuck up your life to homelessness, when you die you won’t be homeless anymore

>> No.10670619

>>10661700
it's quite simple OP, i gave up writing altogether!

there have been so many geniuses before me that i'm happy just to spend the rest of my life reading their great works

>> No.10670762

>>10661863
>Mozart

Mozart is a pleb compared to Bach. Also, why no Handel, Wagner, or Bartok?

Also, your assertion is ludicrous. You give musicians too high a place. What of Pythagoras? Archimedes? Newton? Maxwell? What of the forefathers of microscopy, telescopy, modern chemistry, and so forth?

In any case, to answer >>10661700
I'm not mediocre in every sense. I'm lazy and unwise. Thus, my achievements are, so far, mediocre, but I find enjoyment for myself in various things - books, puzzles, games, art film, stargazing, and other hobbies.

Succintly, I distract myself - as do we all.

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>>10670762
the absolute plebbest underagest answer possible

>hurr durr im just not applying myself

Go back to Peddit with all the other distracted savants, this board is for undistracted humble common folk.

>> No.10670836

You become a tradesmen and come to terms that you are a brainlet.

>> No.10670842

>>10670828
>humble common folk
this is the most arrogant, classist, elitist board on the whole website. it outclasses /sci/ and /biz/ even in this respect. i would say /fit/ and /tv/ are boards for common folk and have the least pretensions

>> No.10670863

>>10661863
You are forgetting Alexander, Caesar, Frederick, Napoleon... All of them were destined to greatness. Probably more so than those 3 in fact.

>> No.10670879

>>10670469
He said that if people knew how much he practiced and how much time he spend on honing his skills they wouldnt think it was such a superhuman effort.

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>>10670842

>> No.10671187

in all honesty, i want to marry somebody from a better lineage, in the hopes that there will be a sort of genetic snowball effect. my kids are smarter, so their kids are smarter and become even smarter. one day, hopefully before I die, I can live to see him become great in some aspect. but this is all predicated on the assumption that i am simply incapable of achieving greatness myself, which is probably true, but i dont think we should admit that to ourselves, keep striving, etc, even if it's a bit cliche and reddit to say 'just pursue your dreams bro'

>> No.10671324 [DELETED] 

>>10670828
>says "pleb"
>proceeds to demonstrate extreme plebbiness
>posts an image only a pleb would have on hand

Good job, dummy.

>> No.10671327

>>10670828
>undistracted

I assure you, goon, even in my distracted state I've far more literary knowledge and intellectual heft than you.

Though I admit, I am no "humble common folk," which, just so you know, is basically what a pleb is.

Idiot.

>> No.10671341

>>10661823
This. Self-destructive scientists are literally plotting RIGHT NOW to make machines that are better than humans in every way because they have a fetish for being cucked by technology. Just accept it.

>> No.10671367

>>10671187
>in all honesty, i want to marry somebody from a better lineage, in the hopes that there will be a sort of genetic snowball effect. my kids are smarter, so their kids are smarter and become even smarter.

This is what Jews do. I'm not a stormfaggot, it's just the truth. They place a very high emphasis on in-group relationships and births.

>> No.10671380

>>10670952
>haha I'm so cool I share /his/ memes on /lit/ ha ha

>> No.10672440

I don't, I know that nu-normies are so stupid and so thick that I don't need to do anything. Their lives consist of 'woke memes' and defending other races online.
They are nothing like the people your parents were at that age. And all they do is whine whine whine.

>> No.10672447

>>10670842
/biz/ is just for people to LARP as Patrick Bateman

>> No.10672449

>>10661700
I smoke weed almost everyday. I purchase cocaine weekly and I spend my weekends doing that while drinking. Also, I am extremely religious. Daydreaming about suicide all day helps too.

>> No.10672628

>>10670173
This guy gets it.

>> No.10672654

>>10670173
Teach me master

>> No.10672668

>>10661700
>How do you deal with the fact of your own soul crushing mediocrity
ignore it

>> No.10673337
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>>10661700
just try to enjoy your life and create art on the side. read books. go on walks. make friends. have a romantic relationship. watch movies. write.

i'm not saying give up, you still need to try just don't get depressed if it doesn't work out. it'll be ok, man.

>> No.10673375

>>10661700
You. Get good.

>> No.10673525

>>10663918
This is wrong.
>>10662462
This is also wrong.

Comparing the two is silly. But either way, they're both near-immeasurably talented in their own ways. Mozart was more of a genius than Beethoven, but in terms of the quality of their written material or % of masterpieces they're not far apart.

>>10664353
This is the only way to stay sane. Everytime i think of where other people I've known are now it just saps my energy.

>> No.10673556

All composers are like toddlers compared to Bach.

>> No.10673558 [DELETED] 

>>10661700
>How do you deal with the fact of your own soul crushing mediocrity, /lit/?
I post on the litcord https://discord.gg/XZ4wrZR

>> No.10673623

>>10661700
i'm not mediocre. my life is full of wonder and misery. i've done things you people wouldn;t believe

>> No.10673720

Haven't found out yet.
I have three publications, and one national short story award under my belt at 22.
I've always felt smarter and more aware than everyone I've ever met.
I'm also incredibly depressed.

I may fuck up and squander this, or succeed and become a middle brow author.

>> No.10674324

>>10673623
tell me more anon

>> No.10674597

>>10673623
>i tried heroin once and now I think I'm the shit and none of my college friends are as deep as me
I know because I've been there anon

>> No.10674748

>>10661700
Lmao I got my first paper (science) published on a major journal after a close friend called me mediocre. Literally put all my energy into my work and it paid off.

Being lazy and common will make you mediocre. It's a mindset boys.

>> No.10674885

>>10674748
Which field of science?

>> No.10674890

>>10674597
>injecting a narcotic makes you deep

Did you hear that from the other bums in the warehouse?

>> No.10674898

>>10673623
Like accomplish anything meaningful? You're right; I wouldn't believe it.

>> No.10674906
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I was thinking about this earlier this week and I landed on, "Do a little what makes you happy, and a little what makes you a better person".

>> No.10674914

H-ha!

I g-got you, OP! If I j-j-just finished these stories I've been working on for the p-past year, I'd be g-great, t-too! The only reason I'm n-not is be-because I h-haven't! H-ha!

>> No.10674923

>>10674748
>i am a bug and other bugs praised me for my bug behavior

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>>10661700
GOOD CHRISTIAN GENTLEMAN, this is why nobody likes us

>> No.10675170

>>10672449
>smoke tons of weed
>snort coke weekly
>binge drink
>fantasize about suicide
and
>Also, I am extremely religious.
what the fuck anon

>> No.10675340

>>10661823
The first image literally needs filters, essentially photoshop, to make her look even extremely slightly like a fat sack of shit

>> No.10675347

>>10675340
WAIT I mean extremely slightly not a fat sack of shit

In keeping with this thread theme I’m too drunk to post

>> No.10675349

I become better

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>>10665300
Could be worse desu.

At least by 23 I am not in jail, addicted to drugs or have taken my life.

>> No.10675810

I enjoy the climb to greatness even though there's a chance I'll never make it to the top.

>> No.10676124

>>10664670
Did anyone ever properly appreciate your introspective capabilities? I doubt it. What makes you so sure that you can measure the full extent of other people's sophistication?

>> No.10676156

I'm not upset about being mediocre, i'm just thankful that I do have enough intelligence to enjoy the things that I enjoy.

>> No.10676177

>>10661700
reading Nietzsche is a good "fuck you mediocre weakling herd-animal faggot" wake-up and motivation for excellence

>> No.10676199

>>10676177
you're still not gonna make it
there are literal thirteen year old who read him

>> No.10676321

>>10674324
i had a motorcycle accident when i was 16 that left me disabled. i got addicted to heroin, coke, benzos and alcohol. i spent my 20's in a haze. i only fucked 4 or 5 women in that time period. i spent years being alone. just reading and watching films. i got involved with marxists but i wasn't consistent and they threw me out of the organization. when i hit my 30's my body starts crashing down. liver is fucked up. i almost lose my leg and my life but i survive and decide to stop fucking around. i get out of the hospital with the support of my sister. i try to restart my life but it's difficult as i have lost a lot of time. i start getting into serioys relationship with women. although every time break up with someone i go back to drugs at least for a while.
i get involved with contemporary dancing and i join a mixed group. eight months ago i've met the woman of my dreams but she's a psycho so i cheat on her in a dance training with a hong kong qt. lmao. i joined an acting team 2 weeks ago and i'm really good at it. onstage i feel fullfilment. who knows what the future will bring. i occasionally write poetry

>> No.10676330

>>10676321
How is that not mediocre? What?

Sounds normal as fuck... you're just another burnout. The world's full of em.

>> No.10676345

>>10676330
i had a feeling that would be the first response.

>> No.10676354

i'm mediocre but some ppl are more mediocre than others so i'm still smug

>> No.10676371

>>10676330
it's ok though. i know your own mediocrity wouldn't let you recognise a wonder and a triumph of the will

>> No.10676383

>>10670077
You are such a little unappreciative bitch anon. I hope I've given you something to think about.

>> No.10676386

>>10665344
yolo

>> No.10676396

>>10670543
yeah you will, the dead aint got homes dummy

>> No.10676399

>>10676371
your life isn't even that tough/exciting

are you drunk? lmao

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>>10661700
We all need to be like this fucker from Mary Poppins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5w6XI5lfdg

>> No.10676409

>>10670469
a bathmate

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10676418

>>10664670
>Idealism

>> No.10676419

>>10670952
I love this me me

>> No.10676430

>>10676399
tell me about your life anon. i will open my exceptional heart to listen to your story

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>>10673337
yeah man

>> No.10676435

>>10673623
>i've done things you people wouldn;t believe

sucked a golf ball through a garden hose confirmed

>> No.10676438

>>10676430
you're drunk

>> No.10676444

>>10674885
scientology

>> No.10676460

>>10676438
i wish i was but i stopped drinking alcohol 4 years now.

>> No.10676476

>>10676460
drinking fuckin sucks hopefully the governor will hurry up and legalize weed

>> No.10676783

Just reach the depths of your soul and give the best that you've got to the world. That's all Jesus wants from you.

>> No.10676887

>>10662104
stop at "mirrors" and sign with "be gentle please"

>> No.10676893

>>10676401
what is this autismal shit you've posted???

So you collect model trains too??!

>> No.10676920

>>10661700
I have convinced myself I have talent. I simply need to use it.

>> No.10676935

>>10676476
weed’s not a lot better, its a godsend the first 1-3 years and then it becomes a habit you can’t drop. eventually you experience deleterious effects like memory loss, persistent inexplicable anxiety, agoraphobia, fucked up eating habits and an inability to sleep withoutit. You get night terrors from withdrawing after the first few days, then random hot flashes, cold sweats. Its not nearly as benign as the Left makes it out to be, but considerably safer than most legal and illegal narcotics obviously

>> No.10676973

>>10665289
what is the "real world" then?

>>10676124
thank you

>> No.10677113

>>10665300
and his life was over at 23, as he was never able to achieve anything greater

>> No.10677359

It's not my intellectual mediocrity what crushes my soul. Not being able to get the girl I wanted years ago is what it hurts. I am probably trying to convince myself that a single life spent reading good books is a good living choice

>> No.10677373

>>10662104
I like it

>> No.10677420
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>>10661700
I'm trying to worm my way out of it. I view it as a sort of life goal, because I've got an incredibly long way to go. I'm convinced that I have the potential, most people have it, but more often than not my persistent laziness, born from the fact that I never had to work a day in my life, gets in the way.
I need to get good at something, anything I have interest in. That's all I want, then I'll stop considering myself mediocre. And to reach my oddly high standards, I need to get rid of my crippling lack of self discipline and/or willpower. I've yet to read a book that teaches me how to do it faster.

>> No.10677581

>>10677359
how old are you? I'm in a similar situation myself now at 26. but I've realised that loneliness will cripple my outlook on life so books alone will not do, I need a partner.

>> No.10677661

>>10677581
>loneliness will cripple my outlook on life

Not really, after a few years you'll get used to it, and perhaps it might change your life for the better by being completely reliant on yourself, not only in everyday life, but in finding meaning and value. However, after some time you might want to rejoin society again to become successful easier. I might just be a psychopath though, I never felt a need, or even entertained a possibility of having a partner. I'm not exactly young either.

>> No.10677675

>>10661700
It has been a long time since I accepted I'm not intelligent. I'm just ok.

>> No.10677693

>>10677675
mmmmhmm yess it is always nice to see a brainlet who knows his place
love it

>> No.10677714

>>10675170
I know. I'm fucked up.

>> No.10677731

>>10661700
Ignore it.
I mean, that voice that just goes "you're shit, you're always going to be shit" it doesn't matter. You just pour yourself a rum and coke and keep writing anyway.

Even if what you write is shit, somebody will like it. We're all going to die anyway, who gives a shit.

>> No.10677735

>>10662104
Reminds me of Red Dragon when he put the mirrors in the victims eyes.

>> No.10677749

>>10661700

"Success" is only a manipulation to get you to accept being cucked by capitalists and support the bourgeoisie.

>> No.10677800

You can overthink shit all you want but at the end of the day you still gotta live your life. I'm just along for the ride.

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>>10676893
You don't know who Pogo is?

get cultured you faggot pissant

>> No.10678188

>>10677420
>persistent laziness, born from the fact that I never had to work a day in my life

yeah, you should probably grow up instead of continuing to be a manchild.

>> No.10678198

>>10677693
>unironic brainlet who doesn't know his place

>> No.10678208

>>10678188
Don't get me wrong, that's exactly what I meant.

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>>10678167

>> No.10679609

>>10665300
if your problem is not being in the absolute highest caliber of artistic genius like michelangelo then you have already made it

>> No.10679633

>>10670070
I'm sure the vast majority of people don't think about that.

>> No.10679643

>>10661700
"I may be mediocre, but at least I've picked up a book recently."

>> No.10679701

>>10670077
triggered

>> No.10679719

>>10677359
>being this much of a cliché
Dude, whoever she was, she's nothing more than a girl. There are literally billions of them, and millions better than her in whatever aspect of hers you liked. Get up, and get on in life.

>> No.10679740

>>10661700
I waste away the days with passive, mindless, mediocre entertainment. What most people do, really.

>> No.10679743

>>10661863
Beethoven is unironically the greatest human being to have ever lived. Not because he was perfect, but because he encompassed everything about what it meant to be human.

>> No.10679744

>>10661700
I have talent.

>> No.10679781

>>10677714
my point is that there's a big (apparent) contradiction between your beliefs, submission to a higher power and hedonism which IMO is a result of materialism and (philosophical) naturalism. either way you may not be any of these things but it's clear that drugs have become your god by this point
but sorry if i hurt you. i really wish you get over your crisis and find that light, whatever that is, before you reach the end of the tunnel. please seek help urgently, anon.
*hugs*

>> No.10680837

>>10679744
How so?