Step one: Be born
Step two: either have good parents who nurture you intellectually or not (If the former, you're ahead of everyone else)
Step three: shine through a subkect or an art by middle school, start making connections
Step four: high school comes, you're either already accpeted into Harvard or you'll just go to your state uni because it's close and affordable. Of course you can make it into that
Step five: either become an academic/superstar in your subject/field of interest or another average citizen
Step six: die
Books for grim realities of life?
>>9869814
>step one: don't be born
>>9869831
Cioran's fucking fantasic. High rec this one, OP.
>>9869814
you sound like a egotistical teenager who doesn't actually care about anything but recognition and validation
I came to notice that when it comes to American moralists, it is either one becomes senseless hippy who is just apathetic to anything other people do or really just bitching about American politics and current social issues.
I mean, I know America doesn't have any cultures, but this is quite sad tbqw
>>9869831
I wish everyone whose life is so miserable they have to write books prescribing that life is objectively not worth living or is more suffering than good hadn't been born, also. At least I can share that with them.