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my fellow Americans how do you guys cope with living in a country ruled by retards and zionists and being unable to do anything about it? I want to focus on my life and just read but then I see something stupid on the news and feel disappointed and hopeless every day
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>>25205111
>and being unable to do anything about it
I will vote in local, state, and national elections. You can meme about "just voting harder" but it apparently still matters since every party of every stripe goes to great lengths to get people to vote for them and the #1 event that appears to worry every politician at the national level is the outcome of the midterms.
I will also not be afraid to enter institutions (academic, political, or other) despite endless /pol/ bitching about how they are all occupied by evil leftoids or whatever the fuck.
Finally, I will not allow corporations, politicians, cultists, schizos, public opinion, the desire for social acceptance or attraction from women, or anything else affect my morals, beliefs, or choices.
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Lit is a dwarf board.
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Globohomo open borders is correct and I'm tired of pretending it's not. The only people who are afraid of living in a global patchwork of racial enclaves are the weak inferiors who rightfully intuit they would have to live in the criminal slums. The highly productive and intelligent global citizens will always live in the wealthy and safe zones, as we should because we earned it.
Resistance to infinite migration and cheap labor is just the crying of jealous retards who can't compete in a global market.
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Misery.
Absolute misery is all I can think of right now.
Misery and that I fumbled my one match by somehow missing the notification.
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>>25205199
Hey anon, I've been where you are but also managed to find (and fumble) some affection.
You're definitely deranged, but also there's a reasonably good chance of blending in because a lot of people are deranged in the same way. Even chads and stacies can end up living lives where they receive no real emotional affection and all physical contact is mechanically sexual.
I can also confirm that never having is much worse than experiencing affection and losing it.
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>>25205199
Most people will not give affection before they are given affection and a reasonable assurance that their affection will not be wasted. Your awareness of this suggests that you are at most stunted, but most everyone is stunted in one way or another and this is not big deal.
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Nothing ever truly "collapses" in the metaphysical sense. According to quantum mechanics, the reality of classical physics is whatever is left over when all the destructive waves interfere and cancel out, leaving only the realm of being which is self-consistent. Hugh Everett III proposed that all of these realities co-exist, in a larger expanded omni-reality (many-worlds interpretation). Apparently this is the only mathematically consistent way to preserve determinism in physics, so I am told. (Otherwise you must hemorrhage information, "measurement" as an operation becomes a non-physical introduction to physical theory, contaminating it) . But the issue of a multiversal cosmology is that it still does not satisfy man's search for meaning, at least not as merely descriptive statement. The thought that infinite worlds where I fuck things up even worse than I already have offers no solace, even if there are infinite worlds where I have succeeded more. None of this is existentially acceptable. It is either this fragile reality or nothing.
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>>25205269
all these assumptions tsk tsk
Thinking you are underage, or at least I hope you are, things are not looking good for you if you are not.
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GIVE ME SOMETHING TO BELIEVE IN
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>>25205291
>no you
I am ancient by this board's standard. Things are going pretty great. Refit is almost done, just waiting on new sails, wind vane and watermaker, boat will be in the water in a couple weeks. Next month is my last month in my home of the past 11 years and in a few months I will be setting out alone across the Atlantic, probably 3 weeks alone on a 31' boat. I have no idea how that will go but few things in life has excited me as much as this does and I am giving up most everything in life that I love for it; this will be my first summer in 11 year that I don't get to watch my garden grow and graze breakfast from it, I won't get to watch the seasons change, probably won't see the first spring rain turn my lawn green and waking up to the return of the blue jays. Everything in life that I love, other than literature, will be gone. I have no idea how this will turn out, will I hate it? will I just keep going? will I give it up and return to land or will I just end up sticking close to shore and people? This year spring is a part of me in a way I have never experienced, all those changes that I have watched and loved over the years and signified so much for me, become me. I spent 7 years putting in this garden and it is about to sprout and I have no idea what is going to grow. What will a major storm in the middle of the Atlantic be like on a 31' boat I have not stepped foot off of for weeks be like?
Despite all the shit and how much I hate this world, I love life.
>>25205305
He is young, give him a break.
>>25205316
That was pretty weak, you leaned into the "no you" too hard.
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>>25205136
Considering most wealth is generational, or at the very least affords you a good education/connections of some kind, the capital and skillset you have to compete with is inherently unmeritocratic, since the origin of that wealth was garnered by co-operaton from the working classes, who would not have worked for your ancestors had they any foreknowledge of it leading to the end of their people, communities and nations as they stood.
Furthermore, all globalism was done under the propagandist guise of it benefitting the people "trickle down" and "multiculturalism" and all the hand holding sing-song lies that led people to dropntheir guide and welcome your policies.
If it was made clear that the intention all along was to impoverish and atomise the lower strata and that open borders would create enclaves and misery, the orchestrators of the globlaist fairytale would be have been killed in the streets.
Now you think that you've outcompeted an entire people, but what you called competition was duping the masses, when the scales fall from their eyes, the competition will involve you shitting your pants as your gates communities succumb to the angry hungry hoardes who will feel no remorse against the people who sold them a lie.
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I DONT WANT TO BECOME BALD
MY YOUTHFUL LOOKS IS ALL I HAVE
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Every once in a while I think back to my vacation in Las Vegas around this time of year about six years ago now. I swear the local radio station in the car and the big TV in Caesars Palace played this one song multiple times the whole week I was there, it was a super jumpy and catchy song and I'll be damned if I've never heard again since...
Don't remember the name of the song or exactly how it went.. Might've been a Dixie Chicks song? I really dunno. Sometimes I think about it and it irks me a little bit.
Oh well.
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Got too many books on the go right now.
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Thinking of getting my testosterone checked. Im 24 and can grow alright facial hair, but it doesn't connect well and grows slowly. I shaved to have mutton chops and a mustache like a civil war general but I know it would look badass if I had some testosterone in me.
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>>25205759
At 24, your t levels should be fine. I wouldn't rule out checking them but I don't think you'll find anything amiss. Facial hair is just genetic anyway. I'm 55 and I could never grow a full beard. My dad couldn't even grow a goatee. He was so jealous of me (in a good way). Facial hair is not overrated but it can also hide some of your better features, I've found. Like Henry Cavill. He looks ok with a beard, not bad at all. But he looks a lot better without it imo, almost more manly, if that makes sense. He has a hell of a jawline.
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I would post on the board games general on /tg/ about how much race for the galaxy fits this one players bill for recs but the faggot mods banned me for a post that wasn't even that bad in any way. I don't really understand why I was banned? I read just participating in a fucking convo about how expensive everything is getting? How is that even a bannable offense? Fuck, I hate those mods.
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>>25205820
Yeah I've been reading some of it. It's worthless bullshit (unless you happen to have bad cogsec) that will be irrelevant within our lifetimes, except maybe as a historical curiosity. Sort of like Hobbes' Leviathan but less interesting and fruitful.
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I don't like my parents anymore, I thought they did all they could for me and it was the best they could do but they were actually doing the bare minimum and alienating me from any other kids that weren't from even worse families (lest mine look bad) while saying a combination of "this is all I can do", "we wanted you to choose for yourself", "we wanted to make you tougher", and my favorite "you're smart, you shouldn't need help".
I didn't want to entertain the thought of hating them for a while because there's many worse ones out there, and whenever I managed to bring up the subject people were like "awww don't say that :(((" (as I'm sure a comedian anon will soon repeat) as if I were 4 and they just refused to buy me candy. But nah, fuck them. They did help me financially and I'll give it back when I can, and that's it.
I don't know how I made it this far, but it has to have been pure instinct, because 99% of people I meet are way better adjusted than me, there's so much that I'm missing in development, which I'm only now discovering that most had been getting through their parents. This is the hard part to get over, how am I possibly catch up on all the little things I was never taught and the normal experiences I missed all along the way? How do I even begin to search for that?
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>>25206002
You're putting too much blame on them. You gotta be a self-starter in this world or you'll be destined to be a failure to launch type. Blaming your parents doesn't not help you even 1%. It might help you cope with the unfairness of it all but life is just fucking unfair. Hard to believe but it's unfair to everyone, rich or poor. Some just get uneven doses of it.
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>>25206011
>You gotta be a self-starter in this world
How about you start your car in a closed garage?
I don't need to hear it, I've done plenty, if I hadn't I'd be worse off, but if you're saying this you probably don't realize what you have.
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>>25206014
Then you should continue crying about it on 4chan, faggot. That's really helping your oh-feel-sorry for me, my parents were so rotten to me vibes, huh.
I know women who sold their babies to buy crack. Sybau, you powerless little bitch hole faggot.
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>>25206032
I'm doing things for myself AND I'm complaining, but people who secretly know they had it easy hate to hear that and they'll crawl out like roaches to justify themselves when you didn't even mention them.
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>>25206002
my parents were awful too. not in a horror story type awful, but just in zero guidance in life, or clearly bad advice, my mom is STILL trying to get me to do an mfa even tho i already have an mba, she had an mfa and no art career whatsoever but even as an old ass adult she still wants me in art school, like what the FUCK is your problem, the worst part is, it's kind of temping, no will NOT do a digital art mfa, am not getting a second masters, fuck off, god.
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>>25206070
ya but having an mfa worked out so poorly for her why is she trying to push me to make her same mistake? i'm not particularly talented with art, i like art, but it's not like i'll ever be good enough to "make it" either in fine art or in some kind entertainment capacity.
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>>25206089
man i wish i could enjoy games and/or weed, but i can't get into any games except maybe overwatch, but i always rage quit and uninstall when i lose to a sweaty team, and weed just makes me paranoid as hell.
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>>25206098
Like are you the same anon from before or another one responding to the call?
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>>25206099
No
>>25206098
I'm your new daddy.
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>>25206180
i’m curious i wanna know
https://youtu.be/_n13wnsHd5Q?si=VMxclAZxpJgfNfgp&t=295
for instance ya what’s the score there
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>>25205678
Nope. That's the killer. I remember how it made me feel but absolutely nothing else other than a music video where it was a bunch of blonde women playing their instruments and singing in essentially just a black room.
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>>25206488
Ladies and gentleman, the duality of bipartisan politics on display.
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>>25206398
Is it all women exclusively? I think I can find it, already pulled some things I don't think that it is but hell, I might be close. 6 years ago is not that hard to find. Now if you had said 40 years ago, that would be quite different
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This my hole.
It was made for me.
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>>25206644
do an accounting degree. there is a huge shortage of accountants. you can start working right away with an associates as a bookkeeper while you work towards your cpa. also, since it's a licensed profession, it can't be replaced by ai. _someone_ with a cpa is going to have to review and sign off on the shit.
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is there anything besides fentanyl that can lead u to pass away peacefully in ur sleep? not like od on some shit, but just like some kind of unhealthy food that will cause me to randomly croak, not tryna get obese tho, so it has to clog my arteries without being fattening.
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>>25206737
Judas literally sacrificed more than Jesus, if you’re into martyrs and martyrdom Judas is a far bigger martyr and arguably stronger person than Jesus or God. Any retard can give up their faggot physical life especially when they know they get to rise in three days afterwards, Judas gave up the ability to ever go to heaven or call himself a good person to do what needed to be done for yahweh.
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>>25206971
They do the same to me. Just ignore those mean ass kids, anon. They didn't get to have an actual childhood like me and you. They hate when I'm right about the things I know about, which is immense at this point. I literally just had to stop giving a fuck or I would be right there beside them, shitposting with them, or worse. These little freaks probably have never seen a sunset.
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>>25206794
I miss you too baby
>>25206834
Poorly. I keep reading books instead of redoing my resume. Might cash out my 401k and just studymaxx for a year.
>>25206973
Trvke
But also they've managed to preserve an early 2010s atmosphere on that board which I dearly love, even though it's objectively kind of cancerous. I'm very grateful to them for it.
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>>25206988
If this is true, I withdraw my complaint. I must have been contributing to an OT subject. I'm still maldly tho. That works have been a fucking warning AT BEST. I DIDN'T EVEN CUSS OR CUSS ANYONE OUT. W. T. F.
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>>25205066
The drums bashed against the parameters of the 16-track tape, proceeding at raucous force, heightened by the 'ole reliable Onkyo, and extruded its way through the bookshelf speakers. The 1988 effort couldn't match the heights of their debut EP four years prior, the listener thought. But that couldn't negate the energy animated, etched in air by elliptical needle. When does the memory of our magnum opus limit our present aspirations? And when does it inspire more deft direction? Anxious thoughts certainly occupied the brain, but at less even pace than John Keane's joyous steel drum. Perhaps the calculus of reason-made sonic material could surmount the fleeting idea, and with Bob Hay's complimenting guitar and Paul Hammond's despotic saxophone, nothing could unseat the ecstasy that the sound of the Squalls demanded. At least, until Sides 1 & 2 revolved their course.
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>>25206967
Most people don't read
Most kids and underageb& most certainly don't read
Presumably, the people who browse here, do read. If you don't read, you will eventually get bored of browsing here and leave
In general, an online community where people know how to read is going to be significantly better than a community that doesn't know how to read, simply because if people possess basic reading comprehension more meaningful exchange of ideas can take place and it will act as a filter for everyone else
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>>25206983
True, I think /lit/‘s demographic is different from many other boards, I think many of them are younger millennials or gen z, which would mean they grew up in a purely digital world, never as you say, actually having a childhood, or enjoying it in the same way we did, which improved (at least some) of our social skills. It does kind of suck here, especially now, but there is an odd thread where you can sperg about a book you’re reading and enjoying with another anon. The Kant thread today, though its a bait thread, led to a pretty fun debate about what makes a synthetic judgement (specifically in mathematics) synthetic and not analytic, I’m on Kant’s side myself. But it felt almost like the kind of thread previously more common on /lit/.
Regarding those other boards I hate to act superior about having read more than many of them, but some boards are pretty ignorant when it comes to literature, bashing it when they haven’t even read anything, or calling their favourite movie or video game better written; what do they have to compare it to outside of the medium they dare not venture? I like movies, I like games (well I only play gran turismo these days and rarely), but I find the people on the boards dedicated to them are pretty myopic.
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I made a thread and embarrassed myself and then anon responded 'what' and it was too much for me to handle so I deleted it.
I'm going to replace tik tok, reddit, and discord with 4chan and reading books and heal my mind.
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>>25207024
You’re not reading books for self improvement alone are you? I find many people who do it for this reason primarily, end up quitting because their goal was never to enjoy what they read, or learn something, but simply equating reading a book to something like exercise. Don’t misunderstand though, it often is a mental exercise depending on what you’re reading (philosophy, anything with linguistic complexity) but that should come with other motivations. I’m not really speaking for you specifically (I could be completely wrong about you) as much as I am a bunch of zoomers on social media—including a younger family member who did exactly this—who treat reading like hard work, and who do it to feel better about themselves.
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I'm going to graduate from college soon with a humanities degree and I have no idea what I'm going to do once I graduate.
I find myself unable to take any action on my own to prepare myself for the workplace. I'm not sure what my problem is.
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>>25207016
Eh, they can be tolerable but they actually hate you when you know more then them. I've been squashing their arguments for years by this point and they never learn. So I just stopped trying, and caring. Let them be blind. They're only getting me remain viable the more they hate me and refuse to learn. I gotta be ok with it because they're not going to ever change. I remember being young and stupid. No one could tell me any different, either. I think a lot of them are affected by solipsism because they have such a hard time imagining that the world existed before the 90s. The 50s, out of the question. The 50s may as well be Mars to them.
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>>25207051
No, I read books for fun mostly. The unplugging and reverting back to early 2000s life is what I hope will heal my mind. I know what you mean though - zoomers that fall down a self-improvement rabbit hole.
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>>25207073
Ah, yeah, I expected you would anyway, if nothing else this board doesn’t generally attract people who read for the purposes I mentioned above. I didn’t mean to assume anything about you though. Your post just sprung to mind those that do fall down that rabbit hole, I think it’s simply because I saw “tik tok” and “reading” in the same sentence lol.
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>>25205066
im frequently astonished by how oblivious (or unphased?) most people are to ai writing. Ive come across video essays narrated by real people, scripted by ai, where you can practically hear the em dashes. comments to the effect of 'your ai slop bores me' nowhere to be found.
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>>25207332
uncommon taste
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>>25207301
I miss someone I shouldn’t miss, essentially.
>>25207310
Somehow I doubt it.
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If anyone is looking for a quality slop TV show to watch, check out Scandal on Netflix. It should be bad yet it's so, so good, and well-made. You can tell the people behind it were very talented and genuinely cared about making a quality product.
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>>25207310
The problem is that the hard part never ends. Time passes and I don’t feel any better… I don’t know how to feel this all the way through.
>>25207369
Doing it won’t even feel good because I know it won’t get me the outcome that I want and I’ll just be more upset. But the act would be a relief, at least, because not doing it feels so unbearably bad that almost anything else is preferable. And I can only distract myself for so long
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>>25207372
No thanks
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>almost all toothpaste in whole foods is now labelled "fluoride free"
This is my apology to all fluoride-schizos of the last decade
soz
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>>25207372
My mother watched that. It's just your typical stronk independent black wammin that don't need no man. It's fucking dogshit in the highest degree.
Fuck (You) for suggesting to other unsuspecting oblivious anons. It's not even "so bad its good" its just fucking shit.
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>>25207359
If you send that text I will immanetize the eschaton and it'll make your mom sad.
Put. The. Faggot-Assed. Fucking. Phone. Down.
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>>25207372
Time is so fleeting...
Even if I watch a show, chances are the memories of it will fade into nothingness with the passing of the years. Focus on the eternal and ignore the ephemeral
also I want to watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyWmBwiy0ew&list=PLWnMeKaZKVEWflz6aIm3 H_i28VmOMmvTt instead. Historical kino is true kino
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>>25207418
True, my life would be better if I spent less time watching TV. I have an addiction, sadly. It's just so much easier to put on a TV show when I eat, and then I end up finishing the entire hour. Rinse and repeat 2x-3x a day, and there you go.
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>>25207417
I fucking dare you
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>>25207437
That's it. Seventh Seal broken. Don't bother waking up tomorrow.
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As a kid, many years ago, I knew I would grow up to be annoyed by younger generations. Misinterpreting, making mistakes, projecting, gaslighting, all deliberately. I knew this because I did that , because it annoyed my elders.
Realizing this was the moment such behavior began to lose its magic for me. I do miss it all the same.
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My personal life is a total mess bros.
Something happened to my brain and over the last 4 years I went from "homosexuality is degenerate and disgusting" to fantasizing about cute boys and developing a small crush on a male coworker (only for him to get a girlfriend, to my dismay) and becoming increasingly tempted to try one of those gay hookup apps. I don't really get how this happened and I thought this kind of thing would be pretty much set in stone after puberty but apparently not.
In complete contrast, I have also been thinking more and more about becoming Catholic. The more I read about their history and worldview the more it seems to affect me. I particularly like St. Therese of Lisieux and her story and was moved by her autobiography. The fact that this is practically the opposite of the tendency identified in the previous paragraph and the irony of the situation is not lost on me, but both are genuine.
The end result is that I go back and forth between taking a course of action based on one or the other without taking the plunge into either, and meanwhile time passes and I get older while remaining alome and spiritually unfulfilled by my current life.
I read Brideshead Revisited recently and liked it.
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My life feels like a cycle of falling apart then working very hard to put it back together. Currently my life has come undone again. Right now I don't feel like putting it back together. Maybe I just don't know how but I don't think that's really it. With everything going on in the world at the moment I honestly don't want to participate.
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>>25207600
Well, thems the breaks.
However!
Read Ulysses, it got me out of a bad place mentally, it’s very life affirming and fun to decode with every subsequent read. Your mind will be too focused on the book to care… maybe.
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Lowkey fiending to travel to Athens to see the sites.
I got the money, I got the time, yet... I linger.
Wherever I go, there I am.
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>>25207482
No this started over a year after all of that.
>>25207479
No