Anyone else spend all their time on the internet, incredibly

Anyone? For instance, I also spend most of my time on boards I care nothing about because the content is easy to digest.

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It's cliche'd advice, but you gotta force yourself to go completely out of your way to do different things.

Falling into a routine pattern (wake up, work, drink, music, sleep) is the enemy. It's comfortable but every day it's ever so slightly less, until eventually you're 100% bored and have forgotten how to even do anything else. And then the boredom becomes misery.

I dunno - pickup a pencil & paper, and start drawing. It'll suck at first. Not just your skill, but the experience as a whole. It's not something you want to do. But eventually you might find joy in it. And it'll work for a while. Doesn't have to be drawing, just an example. Gotta find new things, and get into them enough that you start to appreciate some of the joys in them that you don't get elsewhere.

A new activity is like starting a big RPG game where people say "yeah the first X hours suck but if you stick through it it ends up good!" or something.

So that feeling, of new activities sucking at first, and you being so used to the same routine that you already have (all day internet, bored) make for a formidable barrier to break. It's like we create cages of our own, happily, before noticing that we're building a cage. And then once we're comfortable, we realize we're stuck.

Just gotta power through new hobbies/experiences until something gives you a spark.

I don't know what else might even work.

Me? I suck. I wake up, work, drink, sleep. I used to be 100% stoked to binge an anime, but now I get a couple episodes in and am bored out of my mind. I used to just lay back and soak in music, but now it's just background. I used to get a new game and be stoked to play it and think about it every waking moment - now I get distracted, and cannot commit.

The only good thing is a couple friends I see once a week, and the alcohol that helps me sleep. I'm working on it, though. I think.

Yes that's why I came back here after 6 years to see what people were talking about. The same old depressing shit apparently

>>35283095
Thanks for the response, I see what you mean. For about a month and a half now, I've been taking daily walks, seeing a therapist, reading about Buddhism (intellectual stimulation), and meditating. To be honest, I feel it hasn't helped much. It gives me enough energy and motivation to push through the mundane day-to-day stuff, but that fundamental sense of interest in life is still missing. I have no other choice, though, so I might as well keep going. A few times now, people have told me they had this happen to them for no reason, and they said it goes away eventually. Maybe it just takes patience.

>>35283132
Where else do we go? Feels threads are bannable on every other board, and reddit will never say anything other than generic optimistic phrases that don't actually help.

This has happened to me, it's killed my sex drive also.

Personally, I think that us spending all our time on the internet, playing video games and looking at porn has basically desensitised the neurological pathways that are associated with reward mechanisms.

This is why you are so bored. You are hyperstimulated by entertainment.

The only way to get back to where you were is to give up the constant entertainment.

You actually have to do less fun and interesting things, or at least that's my pop-psy pet theory. There's no other obvious explanation however.

>>35283229
Buddhism will help. Sounds like you need a purpose. There isnt a meaning to this insane bullshit called life, but giving your self purpose makes it easier and distracts you from death. It helps me anyway.

If you're bored by the internet, why not try changing things up?

Go for a run outside, indulge in some creative hobby.

>>35283292
That kind of makes sense. On the other hand, this should be a bigger issue since the internet has been so massive in the past decade. Perhaps it's a genetic thing.

>>35283328
I hope so. Meditation hasn't done much to me lately, but it could just be temporary. The entry-level Buddhist lit is interesting at least.

>>35283337
I will

>>35283095
Have you ever picked up drawing? If not then why are you recommending someone to pick up a hobby like you know what you're talking about?

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Here's a pic of the squirrel outside my window. He just came to get some birdseed.

>>35283407
What's wrong with his suggestion?

>>35283372
Next time you do meditate ask yourself "if you could do anything what would you do?" It's a fun thought experiment

>>35283372
You definitely should, I found it breaks the monotony and depressive stupor if you're a NEET.

For example, I woke up at like 8 AM today and I've just been sitting here reading 4chan for the past 4 hours bored. I may go shoot my guns at a range and sleep some more or something.

Or I can just drive around since there's no traffic. I can do just about anything I want (that doesn't cost a lot of money..) but when you're numb and just staring at a screen and hitting F5 for hours to try and find one mildly amusing post you get a chuckle at, you stay in that pattern. You can only break out with willpower or sheer frustration.

The internet is just a tool, I learned to try and not to let it consume your life.

>>35283510
I'll try that actually. My posture's a mess but hopefully I can change that with a teacher.

>>35283515
I'd kill to go out to a gun-range, or a hiking-trail or something. Currently I'm broke with no car living out in the middle of the suburbs while I finish high school (18). It's such a damn monotonous and boring part of life, but I really do look forward to doing things when I get to college.

I remember my mom telling me video games were alienating. I'd always be like "fuck you mom".
But video games weren't shit anyways. It's this fucking website. So addicting, comfortable and pointless.

>>35283515
this. cannot enjoy anything nowadays because normies/casuals/SJWs/etc touched it and ruined it. i would be on the comp less if i had irl friends but isolated myself for 10years. i could talk a walk but will come back and do same thing as if i did not walk.

>>35283467
He's a typical normie giving useless advice he read on the internet like he has any clue on how to help anyone on /r9k/. He's trying his best to seem like an outcast robot who drinks alcohol and watches anime at home when he's actually an average guy with a job who goes out drinking with his buds once a week. He didn't mention being a virgin so i probably gets laid too and maybe even has a gf.

I have hobbies, and i realized they don't mean a thing if i don't have a life. Having friends and going to school/having a job is a 1000 times more important than being good at programming or playing the guitar. Although having both is the best, which is what i'm working towards.

>>35283711
You can go back and nostalgiafag at least, right? That's something.

>>35283736
Friends or a gf still wouldn't fix the problem of apathy. What do you do when you can make people laugh, but it doesn't feel good at all? I don't have any self-esteem issues, just don't enjoy stuff, so I end up here.

In that instance, maybe a hobby will help. It's not a bad idea.

>>35283736
Lol.

I have picked up drawing. And I am a 27 year old virgin. I had an okcupid account for a year once and only got 2 replies to messages in that time.

Just because I have a job doesn't make me a normie. I might not be a robot, but I am not a social butterfly either.

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I know what you mean OP
I'm completely lost

>>35283808
yep but it reminds me of
>tfw no irl friends to come over and play smash
>only robot in kentucky

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>>35283960
Good taste in art, man.

>>35283977
It's not worth getting emotionally invested in stuff like that. In that person's world, that might feel like a genuine thing to be upset about. On the other hand, you and I might complain about not enjoying life as much while there are people contemplating suicide thrice a day. Just worry about your own stuff, you'll be happier.

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>>35284035
desu I've never been a gauguin fan, I just posted some since OP did too.

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>>35284097
I'm not really into art, I just save some I like.

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Bump

Here's an urn.

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Final bump, any more ideas?

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>>35285850
Nope.
Just know that you have my condolences, as I am in the exact same situation.

>>35285937
Thanks, wish you luck as well.