/lit/ - Literature

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr0-7Ds79zo

>>22879370
I found a note on my phone from when I was drinking and workshopping short story collection titles, and realized I have a pretty solid set of autobiographical stories in the tone of Sergei Dovlatov.

I'm starting it tomorrow.

>>22879370
Years don't exist. Only the present exists.

>>22879370
Yeah it's over basically, not just the year but life in general.

>>22879370
Why did you post the Wojak version of the original? Wojak are inherently soulless and degenerated

>>22879370
t-there's still a few days to turn it around

>>22879376
i remember when i first moved to the city when i was like 19 i thought hahaa fuck you pink floyd time song, i'm not waiting around for someone or something to show me the way, i'm fucking out of there! but now ten years have got behind me two or three times since then. damn.

i got the 50 days active on leetcode badge this year. like a thousand kids in india got the 300 days active badge.

Do you guys actually smoke cigarettes?

>>22880058
what’s your secret?

>>22880079
no but smoking is objectively cool, also people were healthier back when everyone smoked.
really makes you think.

>>22880079
Yes :(

>>22880079
store bought cigarettes are absolutely disgusting
rolling your own though is not bad

>>22880250
lol my great grandfather rolled his own cigarettes but didn’t use filters. I think that’s why he eventually had his legs amputated. He was also an Italian immigrant who did tiling work and never became naturalized because his “study sessions” with fellow immigrants were just wine sessions. Sometimes I forget about how much of a stereotype that guy was.

>>22880079
Yes I do. One cig in a day. Can't smoke more because I run and it slows me down.

>>22879370
SOME PEOPLE DONT MAKE IT WE GET SAD AND CRY

BUT NEW PEOPLE MOVE IN WE ALL MAKE FRIENDS WITH NEW STORIES POINTS OF VIEW AND PRESCRIPTIONS

kill yourself

>>22879986
Not really

>>22879518
>Only the present exists
>Yet the present is ephemeral and without extent, emerging into the immediate future and dissolving into the immediate past as soon as it manifests
>Ergo, nothing exists

>>22879370
kys
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you are replying to a thread generated by either a bot (99.9%) or a highly unstable individual that needs urgent medical assistance

>>22880877
>kys
Nope I will live a long doomed life.

I gave birth this year. Now my clothes are covered in stale milk all the time and I smell like a barn.

>>22880998
I was in a monastery for a while and finished a year of uni

This is now a positive only thread. Reply with the things you are proud of doing this year. If you can't find any - do something small today

>>22881311
Dude it was fucking dogshit, one of the worst years for humanity of the past five decades. Anyway keep coping, things will only get worse every year from here on.

>>22880998
YWNBAW

>>22879370
There may not be anything you can do about the past but you can certainly change your present and future.

My new years resolution for 2023 was to read one French novel from start to finish
For most of the year it seemed like a pipe dream
Last month I decided to read a 20 page short story and I said 'well that's it, that's my new years resolution done' as a kind of lazy compromise since I didn't think I'd be able to do anything else
But then 3 weeks ago I started reading a novel just on a whim and last week I finished it and now I'm about 50 pages away from finishing another novel
So this year has been terrible but at least I've done this and can end the year with a sense of accomplishment which is more than I can say for most years of my life

>>22880998
>I got hard reading this

I know that feel anon.
I wasted so many years of my life doing nothing. I didn't understand the value of my time or the consequences of my actions. I was always a late bloomer (my father even considered having a doctor kick-start my puberty because it was taking so long) so maybe this is just part of that. Maybe I was always going to take a while to become a functioning adult. That being said, I'm doing well by my old standards. The me of today is doing vastly better for himself than the one of a few months ago, of a year ago, of *shudder* 5 years ago. While I can't help but feel bad that my peers are already moving into their careers and I'm still working on my undergrad, I need to keep a positive growth mindset.

The only thing that matters is that the me of the present is doing better than the me of the recent past. I will assure that continues being the case by improving my habits little by little until I become the person I want to be.

>>22880998
He will wageslave for 80 years

>>22880877
not op but I see there's still the bot spamming that youtuber in the catalog
it's been fucking years, how many, like 5, 6
fucking insane
years of botting and the tranny mods do nothing

>>22879370
I hope you got a lot of work done.

I did.

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good