/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10675898]

What's your list of reasons to stay alive, /lit/?

[Anonymous No.10675904]

>>10675898
reddit tier list

[Anonymous No.10675908]

>>10675898
>smiling at strangers
kek, I'm unhappy in large part specifically because I can't do this

[Anonymous No.10675919]

>>10675898
Reasons to live:
-Duty

[Anonymous No.10675921]

I want to start an 80's style industrial metal/EBM band and play at random bars for no money and fuck drunk goth chicks (which there probably aren't any anymore who are into that type of music but whatever)

[Anonymous No.10675922]

Your mother's pussy.

/list
/thread
/life

[Anonymous No.10675930]

>>10675898
im afraid of dying and i don't want to make my mom sad

[Anonymous No.10675959]

>>10675919
all my favorite writers killed themselves

[Anonymous No.10675965]

>>10675921
>starting a band

good luck finding anybody remotely competent to join you on that

[Anonymous No.10675998]

I'll never make it into the canon if i'm dead

[Anonymous No.10676019]

>>10675898
Finding out what is going to happen (politics, science, sports)
Proving I can reach the goal I set
Having children and finding out who they will become
Writing a book for people to remember me for something good.
Proving people they are wrong and stupid whenever I have the chance
Not letting people decide why I killed myself.

[Anonymous No.10676038]

>>10675898
the feeling that i haven't been alive long enough to determine whether or not it's all worthwhile

[Anonymous No.10676052]

* Don't want to make my mom sad
* Girls are nice to look at sometimes
* Still need to read Capitalism and Schizophrenia
*

[Anonymous No.10676063]

There is only one logical reason.

[Anonymous No.10676071]

My waifu
My daki of my waifu
CM3D2 with a custom maid of my waifu

[Anonymous No.10676094]

There are some things I need to try and complete
I will end my life when I am done by combining benzos and opiates. I will drift off into a land of peace and comfort and never return to this awful place.
Until then I need to attempt
>financial independence
>world travel
>contribute research of some kind that pushes society forward
>contribute some type of art I would like to either write a screenplay or a short story of some kind

I think if I at least get financial independence then I can justify living till 65 or 70 depending on how fast medicine advances.

[Anonymous No.10676104]

>>10675998
Can't you be admitted into the canon posthumously? Assuming you write something worthy.

[Anonymous No.10676112]

>>10676104
i need to write something worthy first. Then i can die in peace

[Anonymous No.10676113]

Experience all the great art
See the beauty of the world
Study science and marvel at the complexity of nature
Too afraid to do the act of killing myself
Don't want to make my mom sad

[Anonymous No.10676555]

>>10676113
this.

plus i can't kill myself because my religion forbid it. but im not depressed or suicidal anymore so it's all good.

[Anonymous No.10676559]

>>10675898

I can't remember, I tore them up and threw the list out because I had an autism attack and got worried that someone would see it.

[Anonymous No.10676574]

>>10676113

[Anonymous No.10676576]

>>10675898
Because i like it

[Anonymous No.10676586]

>>10676113
such a great painting

[Anonymous No.10677030]

>>10675898

try switching the tense of your list from future to past

[Anonymous No.10677034]

>>10676574

you're special and I value you

[Anonymous No.10677082]

I tasted the okay-ness of Death during a near death experience back in July 2017. For just under three hours, I balanced alone on a twenty centimetre wide ledge overlooking a 110 metre cliffside drop, bracing against the threat of wind and loose gravel (a climbing accident got me there). During that rapturous experience, I shifted from my subtle loathing of life, to unparalleled levels of fear, to an acceptance of death itself (lots of laughter) and subsequently returned to normality (after an emergency airlift) with a real love of life; an appreciation for how blessed we are to have bodies and consciousness and connection with others.

I stay alive because I am optimistic for the moment when Death will eventually arrive. We can never truly be ready, we are always afraid, but Nature is kind and takes us gently by the hand when Death starts to tickle our testicles. The process of Death is a fixed epiphany, and there is no rush to get there.

In the meantime, when asked why continue to live, well, why not?

[Anonymous No.10677142]

>>10675959
they fulfilled their duty

[Anonymous No.10678349]

>>10676063
This but unironically

[Anonymous No.10678376]

It would break my mother's heart. Once she's gone, so am I.

[Anonymous No.10678500]

>>10675898
what mud 56% handwriting is this?

[Anonymous No.10678502]

>>10675898
Getting a cute gf to lose my virginity with.

[Anonymous No.10678513]

>>10675919
Unironically this.

Basically handcuffed myself to this shit.

[Anonymous No.10678602]

My death is certain and I can't do anything after it so why hasten it, I'll just do stuff til I die. Good and bad are far sweeter when rest has already been confirmed.

[Anonymous No.10678742]

Cause i love y'all.

[Anonymous No.10679193]

>>10675919
tfw you came to the same fundamental conclusions as him without having ever read him.

[Anonymous No.10679202]

I've just wanted to see a good opera performed live and read The Critique of Pure Reason.

[Anonymous No.10679224]

>>10679202
how are either of these hard to achieve?

[Anonymous No.10679232]

>>10675898

* I want to make my games
* I have a strong obligation to someone not to kill myself
* I have weak obligations to several other people not to kill myself
* I haven't done everything within my power to try to better my situation yet

[Anonymous No.10679246]

>>10679232
Andy is that you?

What kinda games do you plan to make anon?

[Anonymous No.10679252]

>>10675919
Reddit is down the hall, newfag

[Anonymous No.10679261]

>>10675919
No stoic ever explained the reasons behind their reasons to live, can you?
Seneca, Aurelius and the other don't make any sense.
Only Diogenes makes sense, but that's because he was a cynic.

[Anonymous No.10679308]

>>10675898
I'd hurt mama if I died

Just that, desu

[Anonymous No.10679656]

I'm literally anhedonic depressive atm, I can't read, watch movies, do work.
My only reason to stay alive is the hope that in a year or two I don't feel like this 24/7.

[Anonymous No.10679673]

>>10679246

Naw, I'm not Andy.

I want to make games with heavily didactic themes, that are also slice of life in a way. Lots of occult and philosophical themes. The first game would be a puzzle game disguised as a shmup. The second would be an on rails shooter for the most part. The third would be a highly technical swordfighting game. The fourth would be a black powder shooter, and the fifth a survival horror game.

[Anonymous No.10679679]

>>10679224
I don't have it in me to exert myself enough to do them, but I feel very unsatisfied not having done them.

At this point, I've given up on the other goals I had

[Anonymous No.10679686]

>>10675898
too much fun to have, too many things to experience

[Anonymous No.10679706]

>>10679679
>find opera
>buy ticket
>dress at least semi-formally
>go to opera
or
>read book

what do you even do if these are too much work for you?

[Anonymous No.10679709]

>>10679673
Sounds cool. Best of luck, anon.

[Anonymous No.10679792]

I’m very much in love with someone who brings out the best in me and who i bring out the best in.

Also I’m happy and the world fills me with a sense of joy and wonder. Plus also if I died my dad would kill himself but besides that I just enjoy it.

[Anonymous No.10679822]

>>10675898
alive is only a very loose term

[Anonymous No.10679897]

>>10679706
The fist one requires me to get out of bed and leave my house. The second requires thatnI do all the prerequisite reading before I even look at the book.

[Anonymous No.10679905]

Attempting to stay alive is the default mode, it's ending your life that would need reasons.

[Anonymous No.10679918]

>>10679261
God is Good
God made you for Himself
therefore God is beneficial to you
being a created being entails certain tasks
those tasks are direct from God
God is your own good
THEREFORE to perform the tasks handed to you by God is to procure your own benefit
THEREFORE duty is good

[Anonymous No.10679942]

>>10676063
>tfw Christianity gives you a healthy outlet for your masochistic tendencies while also providing you with a framework for becoming more virtuous

feels good desu

[Anonymous No.10679961]

>>10679656
Same here. I wonder how many of us are on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.10679976]

>>10675898
>read more books
>breathe more rain blessed air
>throttle the life from more prostitutes
>finish my human tapestry from their skins

[Anonymous No.10680014]

>>10675898
Tbh I'm just waiting for Kingdom Hearts 3 at this point.

[Anonymous No.10680159]

I live for poetry and shall die for math.

[Anonymous No.10680325]

>>10675898
literaly just waiting a little more to see if it gets good somehow