/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2528014]

Is /lit forever alone? Do you read books to escape your horrible life?

[Anonymous No.2528025]

i basically can't talk to people i don't know
i'm extremely intimidated by everybody
i'm kind of like the guy from no longer human minus the intelligence
no friends, only have had sex because of girls that feel bad for me, drink whenever i can, etc.
i definitely use books to escape from my life

[Anonymous No.2528032]

I have my books and my poetry to protect me. I am shielded in my armour. Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me.

[Anonymous No.2528037]

I'm married.

[Anonymous No.2528044]

I'm an attractive, well-spoken, tallfag musician who enjoys all the arts. I'm also a lawyer. No, I am not forever alone. I'm pretty surprised that /lit/ has so many "horrible-lifers" as I've always thought that reading and the talent at school that correlates highly with reading level would lead everyone on here to more advantageous economic circumstances.

Anyway, stay in school, don't get hooked onto drugs or booze, and work summer jobs. This is my advice to you all. Plan for your future.

[Anonymous No.2528050]

>>2528044
you get a lot of smart/semi-smart/average but thinks he's smart but massively socially inept people on 4chan in general
idk why you would find this surprising

[Ludwig !9CUY39dDYo No.2528053]

>>>/r9k/

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[Anonymous No.2528057]

Currently yes, I'm definitely doing that. Had a failed relationship, few failed dates, and trying to get myself immersed in anything to get over the desperate need to depend on and love somebody.

[Anonymous No.2528059]

>>2528050
Social ineptness boils down to how attractive and confident you are. It's got nothing to do with intelligence in my opinion. Part of being intelligent is realizing how important your looks are as social lubricant, and working on it by exercising and dressing well.

[Anonymous No.2528062]

>>2528059
I just want to say "social lubricant" is a yucky phrase.

[Anonymous No.2528093]

>>2528025
I love you bro

[Anonymous No.2528098]

Anyone else is trying to avoid books dealing with sex and relationships as much as possible? I just cannot symphatize with a hero who fucks different chick in every other chapter.

[Anonymous No.2528103]

>>2528098
It makes you wonder, both about yourself and the people who enjoy those kinds of books.

[Anonymous No.2528113]

I read books to better my horrible life by learning from the greats of history.

[Anonymous No.2528116]

>>2528059
how did you do the confidence raising part? i've gotten to the point where i look like a normal human being, but due to my past i basically feel like a disgusting subhuman beast

[Anonymous No.2528127]

I'm fucked in the head.

[Anonymous No.2528143]

Kind of. I read books to gain different perspectives and realize that my problems are really trivial outside of my own self obsession.

That said

>no friends
>no gf
>that feel

[Anonymous No.2528144]

yes and yes

[Anonymous No.2528832]

>>2528059
I'd say a man's donfidence may have a negative corrolation with his inteligence.

[Anonymous No.2528889]

I have a phobia of men (I'm female) and any unfamiliar situation gives me a panic attack usually culminating in vomit. I haven't left my apartment for months. I hope I die in my sleep soon.

[Anonymous No.2528915]

No and yes.

I feel that I'm inferior to a lot of my friends in certian aspects, but I think I'm a lot more well-rounded than many of them.

Only one of my friends is a really huge book reader, so I usually come to /lit/ for insight and discussion.

[Anonymous No.2528919]

I've never dated in my life.

I read books because I find them interesting

I watch anime to escape, because its a whole lot easier

[Anonymous No.2528917]

[Anonymous No.2529007]

It's funny. I think I am lacking in many aspects (though almost always willing to improve), and am very, very self-critic, yet that doesn't stop me from having high self-esteem (if it can be called so) and having confidence. Another key factor is not really giving a fuck about most things.

[Anonymous No.2529029]

I never understand why people want to bring their problems on 4chan, a kind of place where you can get away from these problems.

[Anonymous No.2529030]

Yes.

No real friends (hate the ones I have, only pretend to enjoy their company because being alone is worse than being surrounded by pseudo friends.)

No girlfriend. Virgin.

No aspirations beyond "being a writer."

Rarely leave the house, and when I do I feel sick, like a salt water fish in a swimming pool.

Extremely addictive personality.

Why wouldn't I want to escape?

[Anonymous No.2529032]

>>2528917
I feel bad for stagolee sometimes.

[Anonymous No.2529051]

>>2528889
I'd be your friend. I'm largely a hermit as well and know the isolation.

[Anonymous No.2529062]

>>2529051
>look at me white knighting.

[Anonymous No.2529066]

Not horrible. Was a late bloomer so I have little to no confidence when dealing with girls, as I feel as if I am behind the curve and have nothing to offer physically. Almost 20, never had a girlfriend, virgin. But yea, I try to distract myself from it by whatever means necessary, whether it be school, friends, movies, writing, or books.

[Anonymous No.2529074]

Moderate social life.
I'm an introvert so I don't really venture out alone and I have a difficult time establishing new relationships. I tend to keep the friends I do make and generally situate my relationships as I know you or I don't.

I'm happily married and I've never had an overly difficult time with the opposite sex. Although in the past a former lover touted me as a social leach in the respect that I always seek relationships with extroverts and manipulate that relationship to my benefit. Personally I feel that this is a suitable form of symbiosis.

My life is by no means horrible, though there are many changes that I would seek. I have a strong familial relationship, profitable employment, and a comfortable (albeit too materially focused) way of life.

All that being said, I am most definitely an escapist and I find literature to be my preferred means of liberation.

[Anonymous No.2529081]

>>2528832

Spoken like someone who's never hung out with theoretical physicists.

[Anonymous No.2529088]

I am forever alone. I read to learn, to escape, to construct new realities. I have no idea how to go about initiating any sort of relationship with a woman beyond family member/coworker/classmate, and this makes me a bit sad.

I'm trying to write.
A major plot element revolves around romance.
I have no idea how to write this.

[Anonymous No.2529100]

>>2529066
Having sex will help everything.

[Anonymous No.2529102]

Didn't realize /lit/ was so shitty.

I have a girlfriend, we've been together for 4 years, friends for 3 before that, going to get married, ect.

We read books after one another (alternating books back and forth if that makes sense) and discuss what we read.

Oh god we go shopping at these weird old used bookstores in town with piles upon piles of books and look around, or we go to libraries and just look at every book on the shelves for hours, finding weird stuff as we go.

[Anonymous No.2529107]

>>2529029
Because there are no social consequences to sharing them.

I don't see the need to though. Self loathing and the internet seem to go hand in hand.

[Anonymous No.2529116]

>>2529102

I fucking hate you with a passion.

[Anonymous No.2529125]

>>2529102

Cool. Living the dream I see.

>>2529116

Oh shut up.

[Anonymous No.2529133]

>>2529102

[Anonymous No.2529137]

>>2529133

Yeah, except none of us have ever gone hungry. Loneliness is often self-inflicted.

[Anonymous No.2529140]

Don't you know we can't even use that phrase anymore now that reddit does?
Well, I'm 18, never held a girl's hand, nothin. I don't like self-pity though, it's probably my own fault. I use running as a form of escapism, books are more of a hobby and it wouldn't make too much difference if I had them or not

[Anonymous No.2529146]

>>2529137
>Loneliness is often self-inflicted.

No more than poverty.

[Anonymous No.2529154]

>>2529146

Wow, are we really going to get all the whiny babbies here rationalizing their social ineptitude?

[Anonymous No.2529159]

>>2529154
Do you often yell "get a job ya bum" at homeless people?

[Anonymous No.2529166]

>>2529154

we gotta pull ourselves up by our social bootstraps

[Anonymous No.2529169]

I have uncontrolable anxiety. It comes on unannounced, often in or just around social situations and makes me want to crush my brains with my palms, stop my heart with a closed fist, and find somewhere cool to halt the sweat.

That said I have a moderately active social life (moderate by choice) and have been sexually inactive for the last 6 months, also by choice.

Book are fun, no more.

[Anonymous No.2529202]

>>2529159

Wow, people really do intellectualize their self pity now. There's no hope for this generation.

No, because people are far less likely to get a good job. Far more people are able to figure out human social interaction enough to get friends or a girlfriend. Poverty exists because poor people are often born into poverty and this society has poor social mobility. Whereas 'lonely' people have or have had families.

[Anonymous No.2529209]

>>2529166

It's not even a matter of 'suck it up'. There are people out there that can help you, often at a discount if you do not have insurance.

Or you could just take a chance and talk to another human being for once.

[Anonymous No.2529210]

>>2529202
>Far more people are able to figure out human social interaction enough to get friends or a girlfriend.

This is what neurotypicals actually believe.

[Anonymous No.2529215]

>>2529210

No, it's a simple fact about human life.

[Anonymous No.2529216]

>>2529210

Damn you guys are whiny. There is nothing inherently bad about being alone except that your biology tells you to go and reproduce and makes you feel shitty if you don't, as well as society. Guess what guys, overpopulation. Stay forever alone and save the planet morons.

[Anonymous No.2529217]

First kissed, jeans-fucked at 17.
First and only serious girlfriend so far at 23, lasted two years, ended not long ago.
I now may or may not be mortally ill with HIV.
If I'm not, I'm alright, for somebody has loved me.

[Anonymous No.2529219]

So /lit/, how do I get a girlfriend?

[Anonymous No.2529222]

>>2529210

[Anonymous No.2529232]

>>2529222

A more appropriate story for me would by the myth of Tantalus.
No, I'm not who you were replying to.

[Anonymous No.2529248]

>>2529232
Tantalus was punished because he sacrified his kid and served him as dinner to the gods. Some of you do fit the serial killer profile though, yeah.

The fox can't get the grapes, so instead of accepting that he hates the people who can.

[Anonymous No.2529255]

>>2529248

Women recede from me when I approach them. I almost do believe I've broken some divinity's taboo, and they're punishing me in this life.
I'm happy for people who can find love. They deserve it.

[Anonymous No.2529270]

>>2529255

It's your responsibility to change yourself if you want a social life.

Often people's attempts to get out of poverty are thwarted in ways that are quantifiable and external to their efforts.

I'm appalled anyone would trivilialize poverty by comparing to to lack of social skills.

[Anonymous No.2529281]

>>2529270
>I'm appalled anyone would trivilialize poverty by comparing to to lack of social skills.
Social rejection has very real effects on emotional, mental, and physical health, and is linked with shorter life expectancies and more negative health outcomes. Just sayin'.

[Anonymous No.2529287]

I hold myself in mild contempt, which is in itself a sort of egoism albeit on the other side of the spectrum.

[Anonymous No.2529291]

>>2529281

I think not having food to eat that is nutritious has a much more dire effect on life expectancy than not throwing your sperm into some cunt.

[Anonymous No.2529293]

I'm a well spoken, decently attractive male with a good amount of friends and a decent sex life.

I do use literature for escapism, but my life is still pretty good.

[Behemoth !!Twl3DmqEY/B No.2529304]

Nope, not a foreveralone. I've got the gift of gab in person and I'm relatively attractive. But I'm kind of a stand-offish person with a very dark sense of humor, so I don't have many friends. I have a lot of acquaintances from this or that place and I keep our socializing restricted to that place.
I get laid more by chance than determination. An interested one comes along eventually and I go for it then. Actively looking for pussy or a relationship becomes depressing quickly without the help of drugs to deaden the realization of how little people truly interact with each other.

[Anonymous No.2529314]

>>2529270

> It's your responsibility to change yourself if you want a social life.

But I do have a social life. I just apparently lack assets that women desire. And I have attempted to change, multiple times and with various methods.

>>2529291

Not him, but I want to experience mutual attraction with a member of the opposite sex. A lack of sex isn't nearly as stressful as a lack of attraction. And single people die younger, even if I would rather have food over love.

[Anonymous No.2529318]

>>2529291
>not throwing your sperm into some cunt
The fact that you think this is all it's about shows you have no grasp of the issue at hand.
And while that may be true, being murdered is worse than losing an arm, but that doesn't mean losing an arm is pleasant.

[Anonymous No.2529365]

Quite the contrary my nigger. My reading has allowed me to think clearer and quicker. I provide more entertainment to my niggers than before I began my reading endevours. In addition to this, I enjoy life more which then reflects to my social life. All my fellow niggers will note this.

Pic related: best nigger

[Anonymous No.2529466]

>>2529318
Being socially/romantically/whatever inept is something that your circumstances may have facilitated, but it's something you continue to do. If you have no sense of personal agency and take no action to improve the situation then you will die alone most likely.

[Anonymous No.2529478]

I personally read books to understand my misserable life.

[Anonymous No.2529480]

that feel when none of you know true hunger or misery

that feel when you think tfw no girlfriend is something worth ending your life over

Go and volunteer at a soup kitchen. Gain some perspective ya bums.

[Anonymous No.2529481]

>>2529480
that feel when homeless boys regularly get their dick wet with homeless girls

[Anonymous No.2529482]

>>2529480
>implying that somebody's problems aren't valid because there exists greater problems

[Anonymous No.2529484]

>>2529480

that feel when a person can only be so depressed biologically

[Anonymous No.2529486]

>>2529480
>Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the worst poverty of all.
>The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
-Mother Teresa

[Anonymous No.2529493]

>>2529486
>"Cash rules everything around me CREAM get the money dolla dolla bill yall."
-Mother Teresa

[Anonymous No.2529496]

>>2529493

actually i was just thinking the hunger for bread would be a great album title for jay-z if he gave a shit anymore

[Anonymous No.2529499]

that feel when no bicycle

[Anonymous No.2530296]

>>2529318
>>2529314

Not the guy you're responding to, but I think you're being slightly naïve. I had this exact mentality until I had sex. The mutual attraction is absolutely what is most important and most desired thing, but that is largely achieved through sexual contact. Having sex will likely change the dynamics of all subsequent social interaction.

[Anonymous No.2530318]

I want some book that will make me cry, or just the best of its kind.
Any suggestions?

[Anonymous No.2530323]

>Projection.

[Anonymous No.2530324]

>“You feel the last bit of breath leaving their body. You're looking into their eyes. A person in that situation is God!”
-Mother Teresa

[Anonymous No.2530334]

>"Those curtains are fucking hideous."

-Oscar Wilde on his deathbed.

[Anonymous No.2531534]

>>2528014
No, I'm married. Have been for 12 years. I'm in my mid-30's, so that might have something to do with it.

At some point you realize that the more you escape life, the more it's just going to depress you because you're not doing anything about it. Balance that shit out.

Pic unrelated.

[Anonymous No.2531538]

I'm alright.

I was sort of nerdy on school tho.

[Anonymous No.2532080]

yea it's partly that, also i love books. But yeah, virgin forever alone etc. Also part of the reason why I like philosophy as well, especially therapeudic philosophies like stoicism and buddhism.

[Anonymous No.2532249]

I've travelled half the world, had sex with a dozen women (which in comparison to my friends is jack shit), have another couple lined up, doing well at a journalism/fiction degree at a good university, was getting paid to play soccer two years ago, am generally good at most things, decent looking albeit a little skinny, and I'm travelling the rest of the world in the next two years. I'm 21. I read because good prose gets me off and I want to be a great author. I'm socially amiable and rarely struggle to make good conversation with anyone, including strangers.

But I like you guys more than most people, even though I know I'd probably hate you if I met you.

[Anonymous No.2532250]

>>2532080

I'll add that the dude at the top of the thread condemning drug use is retarded. Just do the right ones, like lots of acid acid and moderate amounts of weed