/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.19378253]

I'm almost 30 years old. Only 11 months remain.

Books for this ?

[Anonymous No.19378257]

>29 years old and still reading
AAGAHAHHAHAHAAAA

[Anonymous No.19378280]

>>19378253
start with the greeks

[Anonymous No.19378298]

>>19378253
John Green

[Anonymous No.19378308]

>>19378253
I reject your notion of uselessness in aging for i am useless by purpose eternally

[Anonymous No.19378349]

>>19378253
I'm 30. 29 was the worst age of my life. It just felt like the final year of my youth and I couldn't stop dwelling on my mortality. Hopefully it's better for you. 30 has pretty good so far.

[Anonymous No.19378391]

>>19378253
This post hit me in the feels. I'm a 28 year old boomer having a midlife crisis. I dont even know why, I have almost everything I could want. I have my "dream job", I have more money than I need, I have a doggo to keep me company and still; I feel so unfulfilled. I want to run off into the woods, I want to put my life on the line, I want to feel scared, cold, warm, happy. I want to know god, I want to feel like I have meaning, value and a purpose. I want to eat at the buffet of life and all the emotions that come with, but here I am working from home, isolated, surrounded by things I don't need caught in this hamster wheel of life.
Please tell me things get better

[Anonymous No.19378421]

>>19378253
Being in your 30’s is the best. Easy to pick up teens

[Anonymous No.19378705]

>>19378421
Give us a guide

[Anonymous No.19378712]

>>19378253
The Gospel of Saint John.
>>19378391
Saint Augustine wrote: "You have made us for Yourself O Lord, and our hearts are restless till they rest in You."
Consider this God calling you to join with the Divine Family and to consider starting an earthly family. The one is a reflection of the other.

[Anonymous No.19378729]

>>19378705
Don't live with your parents, don't have a car that looks like shit. If you're balding, it's too late but you can invest in a good wig if you're really dedicated. Go for an "emo" look, the more emo looking, the younger you'll get. Just let them do most of the talking. Whatever you do, don't discuss literature with them. Maybe find one who likes anime and teach her how to get stuff online, that should allow you an opportunity to be alone in a room with her. Then it's only a matter of gagging her, and knowing how to tie a nice knot so she won't be running off anywhere.

[Anonymous No.19378738]

30 in 5 months
>never had a job
>never had a gf
>no education

[Anonymous No.19378756]

>>19378391
what's your dream job lad?

[Anonymous No.19378792]

Reading this kind of thread stresses me beyond belief and the worst part is I'm 4 years part 30 and this last bit only sinks in after a while. It's like I am dead but I haven't realized yet, like a ghost still hanging by his habits in the world of the living.

[Anonymous No.19378803]

>>19378253
>4 months until 30

I don't mind growing old, but I hate being nowhere in life at my age.

The only thing that has changed since early 20s is that I ignore most things now. There's little I care about.

[Anonymous No.19378830]

How can I best optimize my 20s in order to avoid a surplus of disappointment and shame? My high school years are already a great burden upon my mind and cause me to develop a sort of 'acute consciousness'.

[Anonymous No.19378931]

>>19378729
how do you look emo as a 30 year old man

[Anonymous No.19378943]

>>19378830
You can't, you will always have regrets and sunk cost fallacies. Looking back at the past, what could have been, is a hell

[Anonymous No.19378968]

25 months until I'm 30. I'll either off myself or move to Alaska and get a job as a commercial fisherman.

[Anonymous No.19379031]

>>19378253
Felt this way when I was 29 but quite frankly the 30's are much better; in my 20's I felt a 'no excuses you're an adult now got to get things done' pressure that has since dissipated, or has been since seen (finally) for what it was: the callowness of youth.

[Anonymous No.19379040]

>>19378705
Be independent and take good care of yourself. Find teens that eyeball you, catcall you, flip their hair, whatever. Initiate small talk. Make sure they are nervous in a good way. If they aren’t, then give up. If they react positively, sayy hi to them whenever you see them and smile and keep up small talk till they are comfortable. Usually they’ll approach in groups asking for your Snapchat or number. If a girl gives you contact info and there is a large age gap, you gotta be retarded to mess it up

[Anonymous No.19379058]

ITT I'm kinda surprised how many people on /lit/ are the same age as me. I'm 30 in 3 months. I've kinda drifted back here after a long time away. I expected it to be all teenagers but I guess we're just the same people who were posting desudesu in 2007. Weird.

[Anonymous No.19379104]

>>19378756
>what's your dream job lad?
I grew up a troubled kid and I spent a ton of my teenage years grounded in my bedroom. During that time I learned to code and from there I learned to write malware. I had many adventures locked in my bedroom spreading malware and hacking people/things.
As I got older I realized I would never have grades good enough for college (not that I wanted to go anyways), so my only hope was to become a software engineer.
Long story short, I got my opportunity at 22 and ran with it. I'm 28 now, my career is secure, I've established myself, I am well liked, I do good work and I enjoy the comforts of working from home.
But I often ask myself if I would of been happier doing something else. I hate heights but I think it would be fun to work on windmills or work as a lineman or something. For me, Its like every day is the same, then the weekend comes and I go out for a hike or something then its back to the hamster wheel for another 5 days.
I often think about throwing it all away. Not permanently of course, my skills cannot be thrown away, I guess what I mean is I think about hitting the "reset" button on my life. I think about selling all my stuff and going on a perpetual road trip around the united states. I think about living in the woods like forest anon. I think about how short life is and how quickly the years keep passing

Thanks for reading my journal

[Anonymous No.19379715]

>>19379104
Go be a monk in thailand for a while anon

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !KNDY/Ar.iI No.19380202]

EN DE EDAD TREINTA:

POR JUVENTEZ DE LUTO

—ADIÓS VERANO—,

MAS DE MADUREZ FRUTOS

AÚN NO GUSTO.


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[Anonymous No.19380461]

>>19378253
>tfw 5 months until 30

[Anonymous No.19380983]

Thanks God I plan on killing myself after I finish my book. Better to go off while I still have hopes for the future and can't see the results of my indulgent life. The doubt of success will always prevail the certainty of failure.

[Anonymous No.19381017]

>>19378253
>Now Jesus Himself began His ministry at about thirty years of age
Gospel of Luke.

And pic related.

[Anonymous No.19381021]

>>19379715
>monk in thailand
Do not worship demons. Better go to an actual monastery where they worship Christ. They usually accept people who visit for a short time.

[Anonymous No.19381022]

>>19378830
Other anon is right, if you have a regret-mindset then you will have regrets no matter what. Just make the best choices you can with the information you have and don't regret anything. We're in control of much less than we think we are when it comes to our lives imo.

[Anonymous No.19381024]

>>19378253
Freud

[Anonymous No.19381736]

>>19378421
but i'm a neet and want to get with older women

[Anonymous No.19381748]

>>19378391
>doggo
fucking kill yourself ***ditor

[Anonymous No.19381753]

>>19378253
same. only 7 years remain.

[Anonymous No.19381755]

>>19378391
weren't you asking about an internship the other day?

[Anonymous No.19381763]

>>19378253
Nothing really changes when you turn 30. The idealization of 20s is a marketing gimmick.

>>19378421
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gWtrnb4KjU

[micsimvone No.19381767]

>>19378253
at the 30s-45s romantic books like lord byron,bronte & some proust reallymake life seem alotmore desperate. like a bond wwith history or evan ships.

the context books lieke some ccccchinese lit and russian epiks and agin some proustreally kapsulize" life.

french novels and dollarstorecowboy books bloom on a thirty somethg that you cancall ur own.

>ib4pickwickpapers

[Anonymous No.19381776]

>>19381763
isn't 30 when you really start making money

[Anonymous No.19381778]

>>19378830
Learn to always live in the moment right now. Teach yourself to not think in the past or future

[Anonymous No.19381786]

Reading is a sedentary lifestyle. In the past, privileged people living life easy spent their time fucking-off and reading because they never could do anything useful really. Don't be like that -- you should have read just about enough all the way through your 20's and now it's time to grow up and let the books "crunch" inside your head while working on another talent.

[Anonymous No.19381870]

>>19379058
Most of us don't post that often. I leave /lit/ for months, and come back to check it regularly for a week or two.

[Anonymous No.19381973]

>>19378253
It's just a number, anon. Just wait until your hairline starts receding.

[Anonymous No.19381993]

>>19381870
different anon but yeah i'm exactly same.

[Anonymous No.19381997]

>>19378391
>28 years old
>No kid
>Feel unfulfilled besides all these neat toys i can buy myself and my furbaby
I wonder why

[Anonymous No.19382072]

>>19378253
>32 in a 5 months
It's not even that bad bros. I look like I'm about 27 cos i take care of myself + good genetics.

[Anonymous No.19382103]

>>19378830
>>19381022
This. Just work with the tools you have and try to make good choices based on the knowledge and resources that you have. I am a strong believer in the idea that everything is fated. You could not have handled differently in the past because based upon the contents of your character and the physical circumstances at that given time, you made that choice. If you were to be teleported back in time with the exact same environmental, physiological and mental circumstances, you would make the exact same choice again. God has a plan for you, be humble and play into the opportunities that are given to you, without regret, without self deception. Humble yourself and know that all earthly things will fade away and that the only success you can have is being on good terms with God, all the rest will come naturally after that.

[Anonymous No.19382122]

>>19382072
>Gurney is still frowning
Kek

[Anonymous No.19382138]

>>19381776
Ideally. That was true of me but there are 30yo neets too. I thought life would take a turn for the worse when I turned 30 because I fell for the
"forever young" marketing hype. But I'm making money (although having to work a 9 to 5 is spirit crushing and I would throw all of my money away if I could read and write all day as no amount of money can buy back ever precious time), and I get as much as or perhaps more ass than I used to. I'm not as pretty as I was when I was 23 but who cares. And I can definitely feel my physicality and age sometimes but that's mostly because I am not exercising enough.

The most deadly thing about entering your 30s is that by that time you might be too brainwashed into wagecucking and the normie working life that you forget your true purpose in life. Don't age out of your dreams.

[Anonymous No.19382146]

>>19378391
>. I dont even know why, I have almost everything I could want. I have my "dream job", I have more money than I need, I have a doggo to keep me company and still; I feel so unfulfilled.
You have no religion and no family.

[Anonymous No.19382263]

>>19382146
What if you are unable to attain either?

[Anonymous No.19382273]

the jump from "oh fuck I'm 30" to "well I guess I'm middle aged now" will feel as brief as a single summer of youth

[Anonymous No.19382313]

Tfw just turned 30 today I'm a wizard boomer now

[Anonymous No.19382384]

>>19382273
it'll probably happen while i'm in bed living the neet life

[Anonymous No.19382510]

>>19378391
female hands typed this post

[Anonymous No.19382688]

>>19378253
In Search of Lost Time, especially Time Regained.

[Anonymous No.19382779]

>>19378253
you're too old for any book to help you.

[Anonymous No.19383050]

>>19382263
One is vanity. Have you read the Gospels?

[Anonymous No.19383309]

>>19379058
same, just turned 30. everyone here is apparently 1990-1993 age group
>just old enough to remember dial-up, 9/11, and cable TV
>didn't have smartphone until my 20s, didn't have a laptop until 18, still retain pre-zoomer social acumen and the ability to leave my phone at home when i go for a walk and sit quietly with no electronic device
master race.

[Anonymous No.19383317]

I'm in my early 30s as well and feel so old. My 20s were wasted. I see the 90s as an idyllic time even though I barely remember it. The 00s were tacky but fun, with pre-web 2.0 internet feeling fun and vidya was all uphill until after 2007.

The 10s were my totally wasted period. I got a degree, jobs and so on but idgaf

[Anonymous No.19383370]

>>19383309
>leave my phone at home when i go for a walk and sit quietly with no electronic device
this is such a rare sight.

[Anonymous No.19383391]

>>19383370
i was born poor so i didn't get any tech until it was ~5 years old. but it seems people under 30 or 35 can't sit by themselves, they must constantly have a phone in their hand and earbuds in. go on the bus sometime and take a look. you might see 1 or 2 people with a book but everyone else has a phone and no one is just sitting there. anyone else i encourage to try it, just walk around without your phone, simply leave it at home, and look at what the people are doing around you. just fascinating

[Anonymous No.19383405]

These past two years were such a meme I forgot that I'm turning 30 in 3 months

[Anonymous No.19383416]

>>19378253
I'm 27. I don't like people and always prefer to be by myself so I'm a massive loner with no friends. That suits me perfectly. However, I still have tfw no gf. What do?

[Anonymous No.19384057]

>>19378253
seriously can't wait until this generation hits 40 and most of them realize they aren't 20 years old but still have shit jobs, no family, and their countries keep going down the shittier, imagine the mid-life crisis we will see

[Anonymous No.19384069]

>>19383416
You have to put yourself out there in order to get a gf. You can't just be a loner and a expect a girl to pop up out of nowhere.

[Anonymous No.19384080]

>>19384057
You think I'm gonna last till 40

[Anonymous No.19384086]

>>19378257
What? Are you a retard, most people can’t really read until they’re at least 50, so if you stop reading before youre 29 you’re just a retard

[Anonymous No.19384090]

>>19378349
Glad to hear it gets better past it.
Almost 29 and it feels like an extreme version of the Sunday night blues

[Anonymous No.19384096]

>>19378712
Fuck off christcuck

[Anonymous No.19384124]

>>19381997
Welcome to the hell of sterility

[Anonymous No.19384231]

Be happy anon. The amount of shits you don't olgive a fuck about will only grow exponentially from here on out.

[Anonymous No.19384249]

>>19384231
Christ that is the worst image.

[Anonymous No.19384273]

>>19382072
>is 31
>>I look like I'm 27
bro, that's the same lookswise.

[Anonymous No.19384286]

My 30s have so far been the best years of my life - and that's despite the cough pandemic. Fuck 20s, I would never want to go back to that, I was miserable and lonely. Now I have a warm home to come home to, a loving wife and even a lot more loving daughter. And a son on the way. 33, and I was still lonely and miserable at 29.

[Anonymous No.19384300]

>>19378391
its almost as if non of that stuff means anything if you have no fulfilling relationships in your life.
im 23 and think about killing myself everyday having only been truly alone for 2 years sothe idea of enduring such an existence until old age seems unbearable.
i think you know deep inside what you're lacking anon and maybe are just scared of that.

[Anonymous No.19384332]

>>19378391
i'm 28 and i still live at home w/ mommy poor as fuck, but i have everything you lack. and everything i lack, you have. minus the kid

[Anonymous No.19384348]

>>19378830
people regret what they did not do. so do the things you are too scared to do and don't get comfortable.

[Anonymous No.19384436]

>>19384286
im happy for you man
i aint reached my 30s yet but imma get there

[Anonymous No.19384721]

>>19384286
My twenties sucked too for the most part. So much wasted potential, nobody to see the good in me and invest in my promise, a constant fish out of water. Now that I'm in my thirties there has been some appreciable improvement, but it's hard not to wish I had similar circumstances back when I was full of the vim and vigor of a 22yo.

Although I definitely profited from spending much of my youth reading. I'm full of databanks. I was weird back then, but now I'm the charming and witty and erudite guy with interesting things to say and everyone else back home who was living it up in their 20s is a plodding dullard.

[Anonymous No.19384929]

>>19378349
>>19378421
>>19379031
>>19381024
>>19381763
>>19382072
>>19382273
>>19383317
>>19384286
>>19384721
holy cope

[Anonymous No.19385095]

>>19378253
30 in two-and-a-half weeks. FML

[Anonymous No.19385114]

Man's search for meaning my friend
You know you're not actually my friend but I am more fond of you than most of the people that I once believed to be my friends

[Anonymous No.19385173]

>>19378830
do some dangerous, exciting shit