>People always telling me to grow up and go outside when anime

>>39231516
>Why would anyone prefer the harshness of real life?
Not being exposed to anime and video games does that to you.

>>39231539
I pity those people

>>39231516
>Why would anyone prefer the harshness of real life?
Probably because it could lead to a better life. Too bad I either fuck up or get fucked every single time.

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>spent the last 4 years locked in my room watching anime and playing games
I think this has done permanent damage and I'll never actually be able to enjoy life because of it. There's no hope for me.

>>39231825
The more you want the more you suffer, I'd wager I'm happier and less stressed than your typical wagie

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>>39231516
But how big is too big?

You just realized one of the big problems of western society and why it's falling apart

You used to participate in society and work relatively hard if you wanted to have any fun and good times.
Now you can do anything from your room and look up porn in 1 minute.

>>39231891
I'd say OP pic is borderline

>>39231904
It's great. Fuck society I'm having fun and living a better life than all my ancestors.

>>39232393
Yeah, even some the most poor people living in cities today are at a higher standard of living than kings in the past, but it's thanks to our ancestors and the society that we are allowed to live such comfortable lives

>>39231516
Bc there is a real world and a digital world. Real world although less mentally stimulating it's physically stimulating. You can have best of both world OP

>>39231516
I know I hate people and they are the sole reason I feel shit, but I can't help myself. My reptilian brain keeps thinking "Maybe this time we can do well." But no, even if I find the rare person I understand, I end up resenting them after while.
How do you ignore this part, OP? How do I enjoy anim and don't feel shit?

>>39231516
>that image
How Japanese fetishize white women is so cringe

>>39232746
>How do you ignore this part, OP? How do I enjoy anim and don't feel shit?

It's a constant battle for me. I enjoy the time I spend doing it but feel guilty about it, like I could be more "productive". But other people are irredeemable cunts and I hate being around them. I just try to strike a balance every day between enjoying myself and getting shit done.

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Honestly real life is pretty much shit if you aren't attractive/smart enough to get rich.

>>39231904
Yeah, back when you got rewarded for your work, instead of getting barely enough to cover rent and food just so you could slave away for another month. Not everyone can succeed and you can't blame those who don't if they want to do their own shit. It's not as if we're short on failures.

So there is an alternate source of happiness that doesn't come from primitive (pre-human) emotions, but from knowledge and understanding of your mind. Human can never normally be "at peace" like a gazzele just chewing on grass and shit because we don't have a natural existence that we can just be in. No one knows how to get this peace, but we know some shit about it. Like, the good feeling from listening to music when you know what the next note is gonna be, in some sense you have knowledge and therefore power over that denomination of the world. That gives a sort of peace. If you understand your mind your more likely to get to this pleasurable feeling of understanding and ease.

So, people tell you to grow up because everyone is chasing that shit, which starts by respecting yourself, which requires accomplishment.

>>39232975
Fuck that noise, I'd rather have my anime and video games which give me an "at peace" feeling already

>>39232887
I get what you say. Society hates you. Society hates us. Why should we give "back" anything if things are this way?

It's great until you get older and grow out of it.

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It's all fun and games until reality strikes you

>>39233033
Give back? It's not like I received something from society that wasn't earned in the first place. The only people I owe something is my parents, that's why I don't understand this "you have to participate in society" mentality. I don't, I merely work not to starve, and to help my parents. If I had a choice not to, I'd take it.
I wish I was born on a farm in a small village.

>>39233064
But what's the alternative?
Trying to preoccupy my brain with a goal that won't bring anything or is unobtainable in a single life time? Go through finding more people to hate? Go through the small pool of available jobs to hopefully find one I enjoy and then wait for death?

What's this life people live? What is it like on the other side?

>>39233168
They have something to work for. When you're completely alone, there is no point in working. You could always try not to be alone I suppose, but results may vary.

>>39231516
>tits like this will never be real

why even fucking live anons?

>>39233168
It's a world of delusion and constant occupation that you don't have to stop on your tracks and think about the emptiness and insignificance of your existance.

The "I regret how I spent my time" shit is from people that ended up in a shitty situation and they long for the times before they fucked everything up, not realizing that doing absolutely everything differently might not even have led to any better outcomes on anything.

I have missed major milestones in my life, but I have also realized that most of those milestones are cultural fabrications that make you feel like you belong when every twice in a year you find someone you would like to talk with about those experiences.

Everyone is suffering and mourning for their wasted years, the ones who accomplish lots of shit basically do it by deafult. Almost all succesful people pretty much had their shit together before their thirties and had clear goals in life way before that. Unlike me.

There are a million losers to every 1 winner if you think about success in a traditional western sense. Every single fucking olympic athlete is probably younger than me by now, but that doesn't matter, because I don't hate myself for who I am, even if I'm fustrated for the situation that I'm in, but I'm not blaming anyone but myself and can confidently say that I have put a shit ton of effort into every aspect in my life, but still seem to find myself in shitty situations year after year.

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>>39233251
i wish they weren't, they are fucking disgusting...

It's because they want you to get a gf but most girls are trash nowadays due to how society celebrates thot behavior

>>39233251
2D will always be superior to 3D.

>>39233075
I don't even believe in owing my parents anything.

It was their decision to have a child, it's their responsibility.

>>39233708
It varies from person to person. I hate my life but it's not their fault it sucks, they tried a lot, and my mother is still trying to "fix" me.

>>39233064
Living vicariously through video games and anime gives you experiences you'd never get irl. Real life isn't worth the effort put in versus what you get out compared to that. I don't care if it's real or it rots my brain, the way I see it is:

>I can try and fail over and over to grasp happiness irl and experience one moment of joy every few weeks or months

or

>I can spend most of my day enjoying myself in escapist media and only occassionally feel guilty

>>39233196
My housemate is 50 and works part time at Aldi because that's the only job she can get. She's clearly miserable and dirt poor.

This whole mystical "work ethic" thing is a joke. Wagie's are just as miserable as NEETs they just have more money.

>>39233770
If it gets to that point I'm going to shoot myself on the edge of a bridge. There's no point in hanging on to life for absolutely nothing. At least I've got a few years to fix my shit.

>>39233064
>>39233168
>>39233289
>>39233770
So the truth of life is that it's always a different shade of miserable and mom wants me a gf so I don't notice? Strangely comforting.

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>>39231516
I've seen it from both sides. I once worked very hard at my craft, and was rewarded with stellar achievements. The things I've seen and experienced, most people will never ever. Then I got sick for no reason whatsoever except the human condition. Now I'm broken. I break more every day. Ever day I lose something else, and those achievements? They bring me no comfort whatsoever, only pain

this is the right way to live. Hide yourself from the world. Take in beauty. Your ears, eyes, lungs, arms, etc. only have so many movements left in them. They are finite. We have laid the tracks for gratification through these machines. Use them. This is what each previous generation of humans dies for. If you don't like socializing, you never will. I never did, no matter how many people I paraded myself in front of, no matter how many parties I made myself the nucleus of... it was hell. I wish I had spent all of my time rotting in front of a computer instead of rotting out there

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>>39233882
>ADDENDUM: replying to my own post edition

this is what happened to Chris Cornell or Chester Bennington. These guys could have bought most anything, fucked most anyone, probably each other. None of that mattered. They had what every artist dreams of: validation. It still wasn't enough because they felt like shit. The normie world would like to believe it was some sort of suicide pill or alcohol, but it was probably just life

Cornell was a 52 year old man. He likely felt like shit. All the the guys in their 50's I know do. His knees probably fucking killed. He'd been screaming his fucking lungs out for 30+ years, I bet his voicebox looked like a nightmare. The fucker surely used a steroid inhaler just to get some good nights sleep. He owned beautiful homes and fast cars with a loving family; All of the end-goals of society, and he felt like shit because he was trapped in a rotting corpse

>>39234111
I'm tapping out at 60 if I make it that far. I don't want someone else wiping my ass for me.

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>>39234468
man, you'll be lucky to get there without some shitty chronic disorder, especially millennial or Gen X. They are all sick and dying around me, at least in US

>>39232817
>life isn't worth living if i'm not the absolute best
did your teachers constantly tell you that you were smart and the best?

>>39234658
Young eurofag here. Can confirm, 70% I know have some mild - serious health defect.

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>>39234762
damn, I guess it's not the US diet like I thought. In the past year alone, I've lost friends to cancer, MS, suicide (of course), and overdose. These were all middle-class, previously healthy people. Meanwhile, the boomers are hitching up the trailer and going up to the cabin, or down to New Orleans or Florida, having been retired for twenty years. Not a degree among them. Not bitching, well sorta, but the point is to get used to the new reality and protest by withdrawing your power

just to show I'm not avatar-fagging, here's an Azusa. Totally unrelated to Mugi. I don't even think they know each other

>>39234658
>>39234762
>tfw almost 30 and ever time i go to the doctor they say im in perfect health
>cousin was diagnosed with heart disease at 23
>friend from HS has HBP and bad knees from his shitty manual labor job
Im beginning to get worried

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>>39233739
hello friend.. i have a job and go home to just my own company. my mom hates that i dropped out of being sociable. sorry, not sorry. just not interested

>>39234914
I come from a post-USSR country, though, and I've been told we got pretty fucked in terms of agriculture and some shit. Also a poorfag. That might be a lot of it.

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>>39235018
>I come from a post-USSR country
believe it or not, you share much in common with rust-belt Americans. The difference is abundance, but it still comes at a cost. Sure we have land, but it costs money and you'll be killed if you try to live on it. We lock more people up, I'm sure. When I was a kid, we were told stories about soviets dragging people from their homes and throwing them in prison, but I'd bet that happened way more in America. I personally know three people this has happened to, one was shot to death in his home (he was mentally ill)

Ritz is in no way related to Mugi, and is better girl in most intellectual circles

>>39235018
Post-USSR here too. My peers are rapidly dying of cancer, some have even died at 15 or 16. Shits messed up and I don't know whats causing it. Most of them are generally healthy too before they get diagnosed.

>>39234956
>preview
>gif
>doesnt even move
wat r u doin

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So far I did
>military
>retail
>university
>office full-time
>homeoffice part-time
>NEET

I don't feel fulfillment or satisfaction in anything I do, NEETing plus escapist media is simply the most bearable.
Tried a few hobbies: music, gardening, drawing, the usual. I don't know what it is. I always feel dissociated, never in the moment, always daydreaming, just passing time.
For what? What am I waiting for? What's coming?

I think some problems also stem from there being no real end goal, and that most things are just boring, where i live in south Australia most people just do drugs or make issues up just to have something to complain about. and i just really don't care desu, i don't care about drinking or getting high or peoples jobs or relationships, and shit talking behind people backs, or complaining about problems on the other side of the world that have nothing to do with anyone here. just wish people would just settle down and leave me and each other alone.

>>39235433
Most people in school wanted to be rich or famous, I just wanted to be comfy. They all ended up miserable in dead end min wage jobs I ended up as a NEET for 8 years.

>>39236456
were you comfy, tho?

>>39236539
Super comfy most of the time, especially compared to them.