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Hey /lit/, why do you get up every morning?

>> No.8731259

Maybe she still cares about me, if only a little bit.

>> No.8731261

>>8731254
>Hey /lit/, why do you get up every morning?

I convince myself I'll actually do something to improve my circumstances today. Then I start shitposting on 4chan.

>> No.8731262

>>8731254
i unno biological process i guess

>> No.8731263

>>8731254
So I can "get down" every night, if you know what I'm saying ;)

>> No.8731268

>>8731263
>if you know what I'm saying ;)
I wish I did ;(

>> No.8731269

I can rest when I'm dead

>> No.8731270

>>8731254
To laugh at the situations I run into in day to day life

>> No.8731272

>>8731269
Sleep is a form of death.

>> No.8731275

>>8731259
SAD

>> No.8731280

>>8731269
Making sure you put optimal energy into shitposts i see

>> No.8731281

I got up at noon today.

>> No.8731285

>>8731280
it's better than literally nothing

>> No.8731289

>>8731285
Better do nothing than do anything

>> No.8731292

>>8731285

Do you consider sleeping 'literally nothing'?

I consider it an investment into my waking hours. If you don't sleep enough you're going to be basically useless when you're awake anyway.

>> No.8731303

I honestly don't know. I'm a confirmed NEET at this point and spend most of my time typing up posts for 4chan (like this one), reading books at my shitty words-per-minute rate, and watching live TV of mediocre television.

My dream, since I was like 14 or so, has always been to be a ghost. I suppose this is the closest thing to it while still living.

>> No.8731304

>>8731292
I value sleep, but it's more of a necessity. If I sleep more than necessary I feel just as useless through the day as if I underslept.

>> No.8731307

>>8731292
I tend to agree. I think it's better described as a form of subconscious reflection or meditation though

>> No.8731324

it is my body who does.

>> No.8731329

>>8731324
but you are your body

>> No.8731345

>>8731254
What else would i do?

>> No.8731363

>>8731254
thingken about coffee and breakfast

>> No.8731367

>>8731254
To piss.

>> No.8731373

To read.

>> No.8731375

Dying sounds boring I'd rather live and destroy my life instead that's much more interesting

>> No.8731388

>>8731329
no, i am my consciousness, which is a small part of my body.

>> No.8731390

>>8731254
because I'm done sleeping and I got shit to do

>> No.8731391
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>>8731254
Because I can't kill myself without causing my family an untold amount of grief. When my parents die, I'll take my revenge then fuck off to Thailand for a little while and die from an OD on heroin while getting my dick sucked by 2 ladyboys.

>> No.8731396

>>8731367
Urethral strictures are hell.

>> No.8731403

>>8731303
>wanted to be a ghost since 14
That's your body's way of letting you know that suicide is always an option

>> No.8731409

>>8731388
>no i am not my body, but i am my body

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8731412

>>8731254
>morning

>> No.8731414

>>8731391
>take my revenge
What did he mean by this

>> No.8731415

>>8731409
what part of the word part dont you understand?

>> No.8731416

>>8731373
this t bh
theres stuff out there that I still want to read so no dying any time soon

>> No.8731427

>>8731415
>a part of your body isn't your body

>> No.8731431

>>8731427
>a part of something is the whole thing

>> No.8731441

>>8731409
Body without organs

>> No.8731473

>>8731254
>morning
I usually wake up at 2 pm after getting to bed at 5 am. Getting up every morning is a spook that only degenerates and plebs do.
Well, but that wasn't your point anyways. To answer the spirit of your question, I usually do it because I just can't continue to sleep any further. There's no meaning in my life that allows me to keep pushing the rock, so I try to make myself as far as from that responsibility as I can.
I mean I'm 25, NEET, no college degree and have a huge debt. It's not like I will get out of this hole where I put myself. And considering I'm also a closeted mtf it's not like there's any prospect in my future. I'm just waiting for something to take my life, because it's not like I have the guts to do it myself. My best bet is this cavity I have. Sometimes it hurts like a bitch, but lately it has been quiet. Who knows, perhaps it's working it's way to my vagus nerve.
God, I should just kill myself. Betting on a cavity it's quite the shitty plan imho.

>> No.8731477

>>8731254
Because maybe some day things won't be so bad.

>> No.8731480

I have to go to class

>> No.8731489
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8731489

>>8731473
>mtf

>> No.8731511

>>8731480
>have to
What did he mean by this

>> No.8731515

>>8731511
An external force moved him to take action.

>> No.8731533

>>8731515
Does that happen to people often

>> No.8731685
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8731685

I tell myself pretentious shit like, "to watch the sunrise", and in a way, it is. If it weren't for those moments where I promise not to kill myself so that I can see it again tomorrow, I'd probably just chug sleeping pills, turn off the alarm, and roll back over.
I'm cringy but I'm serious.

I also really want to fall in love; the possibility keeps me driving.

>> No.8731688 [DELETED] 

I dont
I've been on pijamas for like 4 months

>> No.8731701

>>8731262
only reasonable response itt

>> No.8731704 [DELETED] 

>>8731701
The most spooked one

>> No.8731707

>>8731254

morning (especially early morning) is the best time of day

>> No.8731709

>>8731704
what did he meme by this?

>> No.8731713

>>8731254
Well, because I have to eat, drink, and expel bodily wastes in order to stay alive, OP. Besides that though, I enjoy getting drunk so I'm ever looking forward to the next time I get drunk. I enjoy writing and though I haven't figured out EXACTLY what to write about next, I look forward to when I've got another book to work on. I'm also trying to join the Military, I look forward to when I get a call from my uncle to see when we'll go hunting again, and also I think life is going to be fucking awesome once my writing takes off. I do believe that someday I will be a full-time writer, and it will be amazing. Also, never know, tomorrow might be the day that my long dry spell ends and I can get my dick wet once more. Pretty fucking awesome sex life between 2007-2013 or so, but God damn, it's been a shitty 3 or so years. Won't find that pussy by staying in bed though!

>> No.8731724

>>8731262
This desu

>> No.8731735

>>8731254
i need to find something to eat

>> No.8731739

I do it because I don't know what else to do.

I'm a successful wage slave with a bunch of payments on shit I don't need.

I just keep moving forward because I tell myself that if/when I realize what I SHOULD be doing with my time, I will do it.

>> No.8731746

>>8731254
The real question is: how do I go to bed?

>> No.8731747

So my parents don't get fed up and kick me out

>> No.8731757

>>8731254
i have to go find vladimir and wait for that guy to come around

>> No.8731765

>>8731685
>I also really want to fall in love

This is another good reason. Even though I make literally *ZERO* effort on this front, it's still a reason.

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8731834

>tfw my dick doesn't go up anymore

>> No.8731839

Can't do Baal runs if I'm asleep.

>> No.8731862

>>8731839
kek

>> No.8731871

>>8731254
I stopped caring and just do what I want

>> No.8731973

>>8731373
Would you consider reading an end in itself?

>> No.8731983

>>8731303
>>8731473
Do 4chan NEETs just live with their parents or are they on welfare or what?

>> No.8732000

>>8731973
No.

>> No.8732014

>>8731735
>actually having an appetite

The vegans made meat and most dairy is too disgusting for me to eat. It's not a moral stand, I just can't stomach it anymore.

Most other food kind of sickens me in other ways too.

At this point I have so little desire for food, beyond the basic pain of hunger. I just keep a bunch of protein bars by me when the hunger is too much, and as a treat I sometimes eat oatmeal or banana bread. That's all I eat anymore, and yes, it's fucked up.

>> No.8732020

>>8732000
Then what is the end of reading? Because surely that would be the true reason you get up in the morning (assuming you're OP)

>> No.8732026

Because it's a dream but I want to see more of it. If it gets shitty I'll gtfo. Just have to supply some sort of goal to chase after, be it something as big as more college or as simple as buying random housewares.

"Should I kill myself, or make a cup of coffee?"

>> No.8732041

>>8731973
>>8732020
>end in itself
Happiness is by default the only 'end' in itself. To say reading is an end in itself really means the satisfaction of reading and other benefits.

>> No.8732045

>>8732020
Reading is a tool, the end is up to you.

>> No.8732080

>>8732014

>this whole post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nqcgUDoV_M

>> No.8732111

Be the last to get this doe, no way
Love one of you bucket headed hoes, no way

>> No.8732118

>>8731254

Because life is precious, valuable, and there is a reason why we exist even if we don't know what it is yet. There will always be a reason as long as we are alive.

>> No.8732126

>>8732118
What about once you're dead?

>> No.8732164

>>8731254
To take a piss.

>> No.8732165

>>8731254
To pee.

>> No.8732166

>>8732165
>>8732164
>hivemind

>> No.8732169

Got to carry on the family line

>> No.8732271

>>8732164
>>8732165
Pure ideology

>> No.8732505

>>8731254
because I feel sore and uncomfortable if I stay in bed too long.

>> No.8732546

>>8731367
This is the truest, most honest reply in the thread. The question and the answer tell a complete story about human condition.

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>>8731254

What is the alternative?

>> No.8732667

My gf sucks my dick every now and then, which is nice.

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8732706

>>8731254

The Categorical Imperative.

If everyone slept in and didn't get up, nothing would be done. Therefore I am doing what should be done in any and all circumstances.

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8732734

I like to believe life will get better, its been slowly downhill since 2012
>one must imagine Sisyphus happy

>> No.8732735

>>8731254
I don't :/

>> No.8732793

I am too unsure of an afterlife. I also like my dog, my rabbit, and my mom. I don't think anyone but my mom would be too upset over me dying as I am not the easiest person to get along with and I am not really a "friendly" friend. My ex girlfriend told her friends that I am not the type of person to check in on my friends just to see how they're doing, so I go months without talking to them. That's fine by me, but I don't know if they would really consider that friendship as I do. I mostly hang out with my dog since we are SAR partners and she is seriously probably my closest friend species aside.

>> No.8734172

>>8731263
Sleeping?

>> No.8734177

>>8731254
In the hope everything will work out in the end.

>> No.8734230

>>8734177
In the end of what?

>> No.8734259

>>8734230
Life.

>> No.8734276

>>8731254
Because I have shit to do and no one else is going to do it.

>> No.8734525

>>8731254
i'm supposed to

>> No.8734561

>>8732658
You could refuse?

>> No.8734756

>>8731254

Habit.

>> No.8734784

>>8731262
Waking up is a social construction.

>> No.8734791

>>8732546

your reply however was completely extraneous

>> No.8734808

>>8731685

You're too pretentious to use 'pretentious' correctly. Also, a semi-colon separates two closely related COMPLETE sentences.

>> No.8734836

>>8734808
Not OP, but you're wrong about semi-colons.

>> No.8734850

>>8734836
The semicolon or semi-colon (;) is a punctuation mark that separates major sentence elements. A semicolon can be used between two closely related independent clauses, provided they are not already joined by a coordinating conjunction.

>> No.8734858

It's pretty god damn hard to just stay in bed. Have you tried it? It sounds easy but you need to be really committed not to get up at all

>> No.8735230

>>8734808
I used pretentious correctly and those were both complete sentences.

>> No.8735282

>>8731254
because camus told me to.

>> No.8735285

>>8731373
This, now that I think about it

>> No.8735287

>>8731431
Synecdoche

>> No.8735315

>>8731263
>>8731268
>>8734172
He means to get down upon his waifu bodypillow, of course.

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8735326

Because I have to.
I wake up at 4:30am & make $17.50/hr as a groundskeeper. We literally do 3 hours or so of work a day out of the 8 hours I'm there. We mostly sit around and talk...
Fuck, it gets boring. My life is so boring and I have no meaning in it. I can't even sit down to enjoy a book or a video game like when I was younger.
I feel like a fucking old man. Depression is going to kill me one day

>> No.8735718

>>8735326
I don't think life will ever have a meaning. That doesn't mean we shouldn't live it as best we can. Maybe take joy in your work, in your life, in what you have. Your experience is terribly unique. As are all of ours. Just live it.

>> No.8735759

Conscience

>> No.8735773

>>8732111
Nice trips; shit post.

>> No.8735827

>>8731685
>I also really want to fall in love
>>8731765
I was hopeless with women and I endured decades of nights with suicidal thoughts over my lack of any real connection to another person. It finally happened to me. And she is better than I could have possibly imagined.

Don't give up.

>> No.8735840

>>8735326
Remember that you don't have to do what you are doing. If it gets really unbearable, to the point you don't care if you live or die, just leave; wander, follow your whim. Lots of people never see the possibility to opt out, so they end up staying where they are and getting so depressed they don't even want to change things up anymore; they just want to end themselves. If you need to, get out before it drains the energy to even try something different. The barriers between where you are right now and where you want to be might not be so great as you think they are. Every day you wake up and go to work, you are making a choice. You don't have to do it. You could take your savings and leave everything else behind. Sure, there's no guarantee of survival or subsistence. But if you really get to the point of feeling suicidal, remember how many other options you have, some of which still offer a chance for a life you could love.

>> No.8735881

>>8735840
Not him. But thank you.

>> No.8735904

>>8731254

I don't I normally sleep into the afternoon and don't go to class

>> No.8735907

>>8734561
I think you mean "You could prefer not to". This is a literature board after all.

>> No.8735908

>>8731254
Because I know there's a reason, even if I can't see one yet.

>> No.8736177

>>8731254

I have a job, am training for a bjj competition, and want to get my paramedic cert

>> No.8736309

>>8731254
To watch new movies, TV series, or to read new books.
Old stuff too, sometimes.
Basically, to consume.
Also, breakfast is my favourite meal of the day.

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8736330

>>8731254
nicotine cravings

>> No.8736375

>>8731303
>I honestly don't know. I'm a confirmed NEET at this point and spend most of my time typing up posts for 4chan (like this one), reading books at my shitty words-per-minute rate, and watching live TV of mediocre television.
yeah me too

and my dream was to be transparent

>> No.8736380

>>8735326
one day you might find your lady chatterly though

>> No.8736504

What makes you think I do? I am still in bed.

>> No.8736509

>>8731254

In the morning when thou findest thyself unwilling to rise, consider with thyself presently, it is to go about a man's work that I am stirred up. Am I then yet unwilling to go about that, for which I myself was born and brought forth into this world? Or was I made for this, to lay me down, and make much of myself in a warm bed? 'O but this is pleasing.' And was it then for this that thou wert born, that thou mightest enjoy pleasure? Was it not in very truth for this, that thou mightest always be busy and in action? Seest thou not how all things in the world besides, how every tree and plant, how sparrows and ants, spiders and bees: how all in their kind are intent as it were orderly to perform whatsoever (towards the preservation of this orderly universe) naturally doth become and belong unto thin? And wilt not thou do that, which belongs unto a man to do? Wilt not thou run to do that, which thy nature doth require?

>> No.8736511

>>8736509

Wilt not thou run to do that, which thy nature doth require? 'But thou must have some rest.' Yes, thou must. Nature hath of that also, as well as of eating and drinking, allowed thee a certain stint. But thou guest beyond thy stint, and beyond that which would suffice, and in matter of action, there thou comest short of that which thou mayest. It must needs be therefore, that thou dost not love thyself, for if thou didst, thou wouldst also love thy nature, and that which thy nature doth propose unto herself as her end. Others, as many as take pleasure in their trade and profession, can even pine themselves at their works, and neglect their bodies and their food for it; and doest thou less honour thy nature, than an ordinary mechanic his trade; or a good dancer his art? than a covetous man his silver, and vainglorious man applause?

>> No.8736734

>>8731254
Don't really know desu, no goals or ambitions anymore. No clear direction ahead either, I'm just going through the motions. At times I'm not sure if I even enjoy the things I do in my spare time. There is nothing outside myself that I want enough to work for it, shitsux.

thx for reading my blog senpai

>> No.8737050

Because of the alarm clock.

>> No.8737086

I am addicted to certain kind of sadness called life.

I know it is gonna a horrible day.

But I keep on waking up.

Fuck I do not know why.

>> No.8737158

to post MEME

>> No.8737165

I can't die a virgin.

>> No.8737182

>>8737165
It's entirely within the realm of possibility actually

>> No.8737193

>>8731254
Cause I'll get fired from my job and expelled from university if I don't, and if that happens, my parents will kick me out.
Gigantic sticks work a lot better than carrots, at least in my experience.

>> No.8737198

>>8737182
I'm terrible person anyway, so I guess the bright side is that no one will have to put up with my shit.

>> No.8737233

Mostly for physical and emotional intimacy from my gf and best friend and the slim chance that I'll stumble upon some career or hobby that will engage me for more than three months without becoming a tedious chore.

>> No.8737565

>>8736734
made me tear up. theres literally thousands of people like us who are stuck in this shitty life too afraid to quit

>> No.8738035

>>8731254
To learn something new and grow as a person.

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>>8738035

>> No.8738969

Curiosity about what is going to happen in the future.

Interest in future experiences, like reading books and watching films.

The knowledge that I have family that are counting on me to make a living and contribute, so I have a duty.

>> No.8738994

>>8737165
Just wait till you lose it

everything is the same, and the existential despair hits you almost immediately after too

>really? that was it? that was what I was working so hard towards? fuck

>> No.8739013

>>8738994
You mean all the times you fuck? That sounds despairing.

>> No.8739024

>>8739013
not all the time anon

But seriously, you've never head of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-coital_tristesse?

>> No.8739044

>>8739024
Yes, but never thought much about it.

>> No.8739561

>>8731259
I don't kill myself just in case it does break her heart.

>> No.8739572

/lit/ - literature

>> No.8739607

Eventually I can't go back to sleep.

>> No.8739610

>>8731254
because I have to

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8739666

I fell for the STEM meme but now I'm taking commerce (finance) with my philosophy degree.

What are books that will get me motivated and want to study the commerce parts of my degree

>> No.8739680

>>8731254
I interchange between self-defeating neglectful indifference and punishing myself psychically while torturing myself mentally in order to become strong and invulnerable.

>> No.8739685

>>8737193
You should live one day opposite the way you do now, see what it feels like outside the box.
You don't have to kill or hurt anybody, but you ought to taste the carrot once before you die.
Maybe that orange'll help you get through all those long, intermittent years.