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I have a lot of books lying around that have yet to be read some time, but lately I've been stressed out with my current schedules and balancing everything together. I just don't have the motivation to simply pick up a book and start reading a chapter or two since I'm worn out as fuck by the end of the day. What part of the day do you guys often find yourselves reading? How do you gather the mental capacity to just completely relax and immerse yourself in a book with no distractions or god damned problems that unpredictably arise every day in life?

Bonus: Recommend some books for a 21 year old faggot like me who's going through an existential crisis.

>> No.1841833

just takes practice OP.

>> No.1841836

A book that you would be hard pressed to hear about here is titled "memories of underdevelopment." I had to read this for a class in college but I was being a dumbass and didn't. I fucking regret it because our professor got the author to visit our campus and I would've had a shit ton of questions about his work. But this book is as existential as it gets and if you read it, you'll fucking love it.

>> No.1841837

Believe it or not, but my existential crisis was soothed quite a lot by reading "Philosophical Investigations" (though note, I had been despairing of finding meaning in life at the time, YMMV).

Something I really enjoy reading every once in a while, though, is Thomas Merton's "The Way of Chuang Tzu".

>> No.1841848

>>1841836
>>1841837

Cheers

More input is still welcome

>> No.1841850
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From DEEP&EDGY

You know it's true.

>> No.1842663

>>1841850

>existentail

>> No.1842689

>>1841850

Ignorance gives rise to more ignorance.

>> No.1842703

Read anything and everything Oscar Wilde wrote.

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>>1841850
>members of the working class don't have existential crises

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>>1841850

>> No.1842795

>>1841850
the furry picture makes me crack-up.

>> No.1842799
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>>1841850

>outgoing and sociable
>pictures of hipsters at shitty drinking parties

>working class
>no existential crisis

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Maybe you won't be enough mature with these reading (dont be totally converted and keep a critical spirit) but let me advice you to read : "getting things done" by David Allen and "the 7 habits" by Stephen Covey

Do it faggot !

>> No.1842811

>>1841850
The best part might be the inclusion of soldiers in both groups. The soldier with sand in his eyes is having an existential crisis while the soldiers walking in a field are part of the working class.

>> No.1842815

>>1842738
>>1842811
idiots. 'people' from the right side can easily go through one if they have any elements from the left side.

>> No.1842822

>>1842815
>>1842815
Then make it a Venn diagram fuckwad.

>> No.1842825

>>1842822
i didnt make it. just do your best to work out the obvious.

>> No.1842828

I read "The Myth of Sisyphus" at one point during a soul-searching time and really enjoyed it as it delves into the question of why we even bother living and don't just kill ourselves. Then I lent it to someone and 5 years later they haven't returned it. I still hold out hope though that someday...

>> No.1843183

>>1842828

>yfw he might have killed himself