/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.3573025]

>"Reading is one of the best hobbies you can have. Its a lifelong pursuit of knowledge" said the high school teacher
>years later
>all the kids who snowboarded and skateboarded and played guitar and never read a page have cool visible skills to impress people
>meanwhile, nobody cares about how many books youve read
>basically a talentless fag at 21

Thanks Ms. Crawford.
You sure fucking trolled me.

[Anonymous No.3573040]

Cheer up buddy. Pursuing an intellectual hobby doesn't mean you're lame. I have a plethora of hobbies but there is nothing I enjoy more than exchanging books with my friend every Thursday.

Reading can be a social hobby. You have to find someone who cares about it as much as you, and you have to talk and engage them. Keep your chin up man.

[Anonymous No.3573039]

>b'aww my hobby doesn't impress people
What are you, twelve? Start a new hobby if you want to impress people. Or keep reading if you enjoy that.

Or, and this might blow your mind, you can allocate time to both.

Quit whining.

[Anonymous No.3573042]

Now you are trolling us, iz diz ironi haha?

[Alfred J. No.3573043]

well you could read and do other things... like play music, or draw, or paint, or sculpt, or any other fucking thing that's ever been invented. And it's never too late to start. She didn't say it's the only talent you should have bro.

[Anonymous No.3573045]

>having only one hobby

[Anonymous No.3573046]

Implying impressing people is the point of reading or existence. If you didn't learn that in all this time reading, you really have wasted your time and your life. Remember all the beautiful words and ideas that you have taken in that have allowed you to enrich your understanding of the world. The moment when an idea is expressed so eloquently and beautifully that it takes root in your mind and changes your view of the world, in small and big ways. Those are the moments I read for. What the fuck are you doing?

[Anonymous No.3573063]

>>3573025
>false dichotomy
>blaming society instead of yourself for your shortcomings
>2013, shiggy diggy mah niggy

I read. A lot. I fuckin' loves books.
I also surf / play guitar / can cook like a motherfucker/ workout/ know python, java, R, C++.

This isn't a goddamn video game where you allocate a certain number of points to a skill and that's it. The only limitation is time. Yeah, sometimes I go a week or two without reading, but that's the trade-off for having multiple interests.

[Anonymous No.3573064]

I think an argument for well roundedness is applicable here. If impressing people is your problem/goal, you need to first be able to display the "knowledge" you've acquired. you need an outlet for this, such as better speaking and conversational skills.

[Anonymous No.3573071]

The 'lifelong pursuit of knowledge' thing is crucial here. If you didn't want to pursue the knowledge, you shouldn't have gone for it. Also, for heaven's sake, have some sense of separateness. Why would you want to know people who don't read?

[Anonymous No.3573092]

>>3573071
>I'm better than people who do other things with their time.

[Anonymous No.3573098]

>>3573063
You certainly fit the definition of a Paulo Coelho fan.

[Anonymous No.3573101]

>>3573025
>snowboarded and skateboarded and played guitar
Reported for fucken underage. Protip, my child: nobody gives a shit about skating or riding a plank down a snowhill once they leave their teenage years.

[Anonymous No.3573107]

>>3573046
I almost exclusively read fantasy and sci fi though

So im barely any smarter.

Life is suffering

[Anonymous No.3573113]

>>3573071
Yes, let's isolate ourselves from the world lest we be touched by the filthy heathens who have other interests. Everyone has the right to and should explore other things. It would be boring otherwise. On a more selfish note, it makes us seem much more intelligent.

[Anonymous No.3573126]

>>3573107
Read better books. The ones that challenge your understanding of the world and knock you off your feet. I'm guessing you're pretty good at reading since you have done alot of it. Take that skill and use it to make your life better and you a more interesting person. Nothing is wrong with fantasy or sci-fi btw. Just try to read more literary forms of it that deal with interesting ideas for you to play with

[Anonymous No.3573139]

>>3573126
>>3573107

I suggest C. K. Raju's Eleven Pictures of Time

[Anonymous No.3573144]

>tfw no friends who like reading regularly and living in a redneck town

[Anonymous No.3573148]

>>3573101
wow what the fuck are you talking about? i'm 29 and i know lots of my friends who are professionals still ski/snowboard/surf. skating not so much, but to say that someone is underaged because their peers in school liked skating is pretty fucking stupid.

[Anonymous No.3573155]

>>3573045
>being mediocre at a variety of subjects instead of being excellent at one or two

[Anonymous No.3573163]

You were supposed to apply that knowledge to more practical matters, that's where you goofed, OP.

[Anonymous No.3573170]

Reading and educating yourself enhances life. But you have to go out and have a life to enhance first. You have to be out making music or movies or writing or journalism or whatever your thing is. Reading is a supplement to your life. If your life is reading then it isn't supplementing anything.

[Anonymous No.3573210]

You've read the creations of so many, why not apply the knowledge you've gained and create something yourself? If you want people to see your talent then write a book, you ding-dong.

[Anonymous No.3573795]

>>3573025
>all those years of reading and he hasn't achieved the wisdom to realise that all those 'cool things' you long for are useless shit that won't read to happiness

Mrs. Crawford didn't mean reading fantasy. Now off to the Greeks with you.

[Anonymous No.3573796]

>>3573795
*lead to

dat freud

[Anonymous No.3573812]

>cares about what other people think

looks like books thought you nothing, serves you well, dumbass

[Anonymous No.3573818]

>cares about what other people think

looks like books taught you nothing, sarves you well, dumbass

[Anonymous No.3573824]

>>3573818
;_;

[Anonymous No.3573828]

Learn to juggle then, you boor!

[Anonymous No.3573831]

But you can play an instrument AND read. You can practice a sport AND read AND play an instrument. What are you talking about? I've been studying languages, playing the guitar and saxophone and reading philosophical, political and literature books for all my life and never had any problems.

[Anonymous No.3573835]

>>3573155
>being mediocre at a variety of subjects or being excellent at one or two instead of being excellent at a variety of subjects

[Anonymous No.3573836]

21 and your life is over. Heh I remember thinking that at 9 when one of my GI Joes had a black belt in Karate at 9 and I didn't

[Anonymous No.3573841]

>>3573025

Well, if you really, really are into reading and thinking, and put some effort into creating new ideas and becoming a well educated person, when those kids are 40 and working at McDonald's or Wal-Mart, you'll be a big shot with a nice, comfortable life and all your adult life to fuck bitches who would eb attracted to your brain (and your wallet).

Be patient.

[Anonymous No.3573844]

What use is snowboarding or skateboarding or playing guitar in everyday life? Can you display your skill in them at a party without coming across as a show off?
Impress people with your mind and general knowledge, ability to learn new ideas, understanding of philosophy or telling amusing anecdotes. You shouldn't even have to try.

[Anonymous No.3573860]

Ms. Crawford didn't mean for you to isolate yourself from everyone else and JUST read.

You were supposed to go out, lose your virginity, start a band, experiment with drugs, try to convince bouncer's you're 18, build huge mounds of mud and cycle at them fast, graze your face on a concrete half pipe, annoy your parents by being constantly on the home phone-line, practice sneaking in and out of the house, play football with jumper goalposts, have your first punchup, spend hours on useless shit like juggling rolled up socks or spinning a pen around your thumb... AND read on top of this.

If you just shut yourself away and read, you wasted the best years of your life.

[Anonymous No.3573904]

>>3573063

>blaming society instead of yourself for your shortcomings

It's society in the first place that told him he made a mistake in life.

Check, mate.

[Anonymous No.3573909]

>>3573063
>MUH PAULO COELHO

[Anonymous No.3573915]

>>3573098
>>3573909

Not that guy, but what made you think of him as a Paul Rabbit fan?

[Anonymous No.3573925]

>>3573860

>perfectly describes a mediocre existence