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Books on dealing with the disappointment of reality as you grow older? I mean the grand visions of the future I had, worldwide adventure, etc. when I was 19.

>> No.22091409

Is 19 young now?
I had 2 jobs and 3 kids when i was 19

>> No.22091411

There are literal 20-year-olds on this board who are under the impression their lives are finished.

>> No.22091412

I guess any recommendations would depend on what specifically is causing the disappointment. There is a difference between being disappointed with life and being disappointed with your life.

>> No.22091415

>>22091409
How many jobs and kids do you have now?

>> No.22091418

>>22091387
Skill issue. Thats what you get for reading manga playing vidya and cooming instead of doing real nigga shit

>> No.22091421

>>22091409
Not even humble humble brag

>> No.22091422

>>22091411
my life is finished. i dont see how i can possibly do anything. im fundamentally broken. i came out of the womb malformed. now i just have to keep limping until something kills me

>> No.22091424

>>22091387
start with the greeks

>> No.22091435

>>22091415
None. Quit my job and the kids were not mine after all.

>> No.22091436

read some Houellebecq, maybe atomised

might dig you into a deeper hole but thats fun sometimes

>> No.22091448

>>22091411
It’s definitely not finished, but they’re sense that it’s going to suck from here on out is justified. If they’re really lucky, they’ll make money after 30. Possibly they’ll be able to enter politics after 30. If they’re an artist or a writer, there’s an existent but very small chance they’ll have some success after 30. But in general 20-30 is going to suck. It’s going to be school and meaningless jobs. This is why I think 20-somethings should join the military. Get the chance to live a little before you spend the rest of your life at a desk and a computer.

>> No.22091472 [DELETED] 

>>22091448
>the best i can hope for is to make money
This sucks

>> No.22091476

>>22091435
I may have met you. You ever live out of a truck?

>> No.22091481

>>22091476
You the guy that gave me a blowjob?

>> No.22091483

the tartar steppe

>> No.22091508

>>22091472
Well, no. That isn’t what I said. Devotion always remains a possibility, and there’s still art, music, and poetry, maybe literature in general.

>> No.22091522

>>22091411
a lot of times life is a flash of hope in youth and then putting up with absurdity till you die.

>> No.22091551

>>22091522
Very well put in the simplest way. Although I still have hope.

>> No.22091590

>>22091411
AHahah, just turned 19 today. My life is definitely just starting... anytime now.... anytime now.... anyt

>> No.22091597

>>22091411
but let us be honest, if you havent put out one creation by the age of 21 you're done, enjoy mediocrity.

>> No.22091621

>>22091387
Not Moby-Dick or the Odyssey

>> No.22091719

>>22091448
The whole school system and job system that's been created pretty much works against people. People are dysfunctional in their 20s and lack any self control, discipline, and purpose. This is not healthy for any society and is a sign things need to change otherwise birthrates collapse, enlistment numbers fall, and crime and unemployment skyrocket.
There are too many things to list why the system doesn't work but the big one is that children and teens don't know how the world works. They're for the most part sheltered away from adults and only spend time with other kids under parental supervision. Take any of those things away and they don't know how to function and flounder about. Children and teens generally should be spending time alongside adults familiarizing themselves with etiquette, work, and problem solving/interpersonal cooperation. Each generation gets more and more dependent on the system that's falling apart and will erupt in a disaster within the near future.

>> No.22091725

>>22091387
Idk but videogames and more anime might help I think

>> No.22091774

>>22091411
Are they wrong? I get the sense a lot of them are aimless and in for a very bad time if they can't find a cause or friends to bail them out from the incoming troubles

>> No.22091776

>>22091719
I think a bigger problem in this regard than education failing people and people lacking self control is actually just that there is simply nothing to do.

>> No.22091779

>>22091597
How could you “enjoy mediocrity”?

>> No.22091800

Why can’t you just do what you wanted to do at 19 now?

>> No.22091810
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>>22091411
OP Here, I am going on 32 and just miss the overall feeling of being 19...this might be cringe but Stephen King wrote about the same thing in his book On Writing. It may have been the different time period but life was so full of hope and optimism for the possibilities. My life is ironically better now but I am fucking miserable. It was so extremely different and the only way I can feel anything close again is to either drink and get high or go back through old youtube playlists finding songs I favorited then.

>>22091436
2nd time I've seen Atomised recommend, will definitely check it out thanks anon

>> No.22091937

>>22091810
What's stopping you from having a fulfilling life?

>> No.22091939

>>22091810
>hope and optimism at 19
wtf

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22092073

Forasmuch as things suck, I am thankful to Sofia for letting me be born as a later Millennial, to live & die in closer syncord with the world in its final twilight to night.

>> No.22092097

why does it matter? i always thought things were shit, even as a young kid, so i never had any aspirations for anything.

im literally the underground man XD