Escapsim is all that keeps me going.
I live day to day, making no plans for the future. The only time I don't feel miserable and apathetic is when I'm escaping into fiction. I couldn't live without it, I'm just killing time until I die. I don't feel suicidal but I'm not desperate to go on living either, there's nothing I want or want to do anymore except spend as much time as I can in escapism.
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Personally, I can't continue to justify escapism. Sure, it's great fun but it can never be a replacement for your actual life.
Just imagine yourself 20, 30, 40 years from now. Will you have grown as a person? Will you have experienced anything meaningful? Or will you be full of regret for not truly living your life while you still had your youth?
I feel alive when I can connect with a series, but by the time it ends it leaves a blackhole in my mind and heart.
Perhaps what you are missing is the human connection friend
>Just imagine yourself 20, 30, 40 years from now.
I'll be dead hopefully.
>Will you have grown as a person?
No and I don't care, nobody "grows" as a person it's a fucking meme.
>Will you have experienced anything meaningful?
No and no one else does either, another meme.
>Or will you be full of regret for not truly living your life while you still had your youth?
I'm doing the only thing that makes life bearable, why would I regret that?
>life is a meme!
Oh man I feel sorry for you. Go ahead and keep running from reality. Marshe was right.
I cannot connect with humans.
Have tried that already.
Fiction is my reality.
I feel sorry for you.
So you've got a job, so what. Yeah it gives you a sense of progression and you feel like you're worth something and you have a purpose but at the end of it all when you're laying in bed at night you're no more happy or satisfied than I am after a day of NEETing it up.
You can pretend all you like that you're "living life" but all you're really doing is wasting your time on bullshit. Your life is no better than mine, it's just your perception of it.
Fiction is nothing but a delusional escape into a pretend world where you don't have to face your issues.
And?
The alternative is masochistically waking up every morning and willingly subjection yourself to things you hate and find painful because "HURR MAN UP BRO BE AN ADULT BRO" like that makes it any less shit. You're a fucking brainlet.
Same here, OP. Life has alot of shit to do so it's hard to get bored but if death was on my doorstep then I wouldn't be scared.
>implying
I haven't had a job in months, I've been NEETing it up. And it's fucking B O R I N G.
I'm getting kicked out soon so now I gotta get my shit back together, but I found somebody else in the same situation (here on Jow Forums no less) so we're now working together on facing our problems and obstacles, tackling them one by one until the move deadline comes.
I feel like I have a renewed sense of purpose. Perhaps the only thing missing in my life was a genuine connection with another human being.
I'll have to work hard, but in the end it will be worth it. I have no advice for you. But I know the way you live is not living at all. It's just death and stagnation. And if you're happy like that then by all means, keep running.
>I've been NEETing it up. And it's fucking B O R I N G.
It's boring because you're boring. If you can't enjoy your own company then you're a normie anyway, good riddance. You don't belong here failed normie, go chase the lifestyle you want it's as vapid and empty as what you're criticising me for you braindead moron.
Ahahahah this sense of superiority is just cute
Enjoy your lifetime of regret :^)
Life is suffering
And by avoiding that suffering entirely you are not living
>And by avoiding that suffering entirely you are not living
The best course of action in life is avoiding as much suffering as possible, all it does is wear down your sould and make life harder to bear. It doesn't temper you at all.
>Life is suffering
Then "living" is something to be avoided, obviously.
Stop it with your platitudes.
That's "escapism 101" right there.
I guess if life is too much of a burden, escape is your only hope. But there's no potential for growth there, only stagnation.
You'll become a well tempered person by enduring the trials of life and overcoming them, one at a time. By running, you remain soft and weak. Keep running your entire life and the likelihood of later trials breaking you only increases. It's a destructive cycle, once you start escaping and avoiding. The solution is to start now, and maybe it won't be too late to avoid being broken.
Platitude THIS *bbbbbbbbbbbbbBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAPPPPP*
Whatcha do to escape user? Vidya?
I personally live in the world of Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind. A comfy volcanic wasteland.
>You'll become a well tempered person by enduring the trials of life and overcoming them
No, you won't you delusional moron. Look at your aunts and uncles who got divorced, do they look like they're better people for it? How about the ones with kids, do they look happy? Or how about the ones who've been working for the last 40 years, do they look happy?
Life chips away at you no matter what, throwing yourself into the meat grinder isn't any more nobel or better than escapism. If anything you're making your life more miserable and hard than it has to be. You're not overcoming shit, you're not becoming better as a person. You're delusional if you believe that shit.
You can't die now, you still have so many more games to play and anime to watch.
Video games and anime, occasionally movies, tv shows and music videos. I'm playing through New Vegas right now and watching this on repeat while I eat:
Curious, how old are you?
Because escapism is only viable for so long. If you don't come to reality, then reality is going to sneak up on you when you least expect it.
Play any MMO's? They really make me feel like I can actually achieve things by working hard.
I'm 25, I have enough money inherited to NEET it up comfortably for the next 25 years.
>You'll become a well tempered person by enduring the trials of life and overcoming them, one at a time.
That's a story. Movies and books sell it to you but life doesn't work like this. There's no definite leveling system here, no closure, no clear progression towards an end. Nothing is ever done and dealt with here. Things repeat themselves. You can go back to square one at any time.
You can work hard your whole life and die a few days after retiring, effectively having lived as a slave this entire time.
You can be the worst asshole ever and be extremely successful.
There's no justice, no karma, and no definite link between effort and reward here. Some people become good at a thing effortlessly and others will fail no matter what they do at the same thing.
There's no definite path. You get excited by stories of Jack Ma and Elon Musk or whatever, but for every successful guy telling his story, how many failed miserably trying to achieve the same thing? They are not here to tell their stories. What's the difference? Luck. Those successful guys had things going their way at the right time, and could have failed if not for providence. Sometimes all it takes is a missed train, a missed call, not meeting the right person at the right time, a third party provider fucking up your business, any little thing.
This story of the self made man that built himself out of sheer will is a sham. It is a form of escapism too, isn't it ironic.
Yes there are rules, no they are not absolute. This world is more random than you think. Of course chaos is scary so we feel the need to produce guidelines, sculpt it into something understandable, meaningful, but it's just escapism, escapism born out of fear. Like religion.
Ah good. Enjoy your safe space while you can. Personally if I were you I'd try and find a way to turn that money into more money, don't just drain it until you run out or you'll be sorry you did.
So instead of taking your chances out in the chaotic world, it's just better to hide inside of imaginationland?
Yes, exactly that.
Are you starting to understand?
>tfw anime and video games don't do anything for you anymore
>yesh, only discord traps can sustain me now
>t. discordnigger
Sounds like a really pussified way to live. Escapism is the choice of cowards.
>HURR MAN UP BRO BE AN ADULT BRO
I got trips. I win.
Extreme escapism is bad and here's why
No, I'm just saying that it's no different. It doesn't matter. The otaku NEET and the successful investment banker are both immersed in illusion. What you are saying is that your favorite flavor of illusion is the truth. I'm saying it's just a different flavor. It doesn't have more value.
>you're either a cowardly neet or a normie chasing vanity
Black and white thinking here. Life has so many more alternatives
>"T-They're escaping too"
Many are but not all.
The idiot in your picture was always a normie, just a failed one. Wow he spent a grand total of 1 or 2 years as a NEET and now he's Dr. user the world renowned NEET researcher.
I've been NEET for a decade, it's still vastly more fun and preferable than any attempt I make to engage in normie shit like jobs. I've been abusing escapism since I was old enough to read, this is who I am as a person. It's not an addiction, I was born like this. I can't handle reality, never could and never will. Extreme escapism is the only thing people like me have in life, without it we wouldn't turn into happy go lucky normies we'd fucking kill ourselves.
Mmmm... that denial is thicc
>Wow he spent a grand total of 1 or 2 years as a NEET and now he's Dr. user the world renowned NEET researcher.
He never said that. He said he tried to QUIT neeting for over a year, with no success.
By the way, the post came from wizardchan, you're basically a normie compared to them
Maybe you're engineered at your core to be a waste of space and oxygen but many people aren't. Keep escaping but there are others who have potential and shouldn't waste their lives
God damn, that comic. Heavy shit. I think I almost became Rusty...
Dont you want to turn all your fantasies from your escapism to reality? It's not about manning up or being "normal"
I find all the fun things I saw from escapists media feels even more fun in real life
Everything you could do in life is just escapism excluding death.
I really wish I could seclude myself to escapism. Unfortunately I'm stuck having to go to university and have a part time job or my parents will kick me to the streets. In the time I've been an "adult" I've really grown to dislike others more and more. The lack of empathy people have is so apparent the more you get to know people from different walks of life. Really the whole thing dawned on me when I had to settle on a career path and had trouble picking what to do. It's because I realized I don't want a career, I don't want to do any of that. The only real enjoyment I have is through different media, music, books, anime, video games, all of that is what keeps me waking up everyday. If I could throw away what I built up these last three years to forever be allowed to escape into fiction I'd gladly do it. But sadly, my situation doesn't allow it. I don't have parents wealthy enough or willing to support a NEET lifestyle and come next year I'll be graduating university. The more thought I really put into this the more the noose seems appealing. Anyone who tries to tell you that the way someone lives their life is"wrong" or "meaningless" are utter morons. I've grown up having friends, even had a gf, and I feel nothing having done it. I don't feel any sense of accomplishment or fondness even if I was successful, whatever that stupid word even means. Despite living a supposedly fulfilling life, none of it ever left me happy. So do whatever you want op, because at the end of the day we don't take anything with us after we die, so you should at least do what's enjoyable to you before then.
Oh, and what is a real life, according to you?
Fighting and carving your own path. Always fighting and breaking through, making new discoveries, creating,
This is what created the world we live in.
It might be full of shitty people but thanks to great humans you're able to post about it as we speak.
You neets have all the time in the world. You'd be actually deserving of respect if you used that time to learn a skill, drawing, writing, developping games.
Instead you do nothing and simply fill your head with the worlds and ideas of others.
Of course those successful traders might be living a "lie" because they're living according to the ideal of another.
Just like you're doing.
Find your meaning, and pursue it. It's not victory or defeat that matters but the fight.
>>Because escapism is only viable for so long.
Which is a whole lot longer than facing reality right at the start isn't it moron.
>getting a job means GROWTH
Hilarious. I guess deceiving oneself into believing that his suffering is in any way meaningful is the only option left when faced with continual failure. I know it's bullshit though since I've only gotten even more miserable since getting a job. I've gotten dumber, more forgetful, more tired and pessimistic which makes it hard to see where the improvement even is when you exclude the pitiful income that I have. Of course it's not the same for everyone but for defective trash like us on this board there's only so much we can get out of our time and effort and it's so little that it really doesn't matter (before consider the extra pain you go through). What do you think growth is supposed to be? Being a 'better' person? How's that going to help me in real terms and why the fuck does it matter anyway when there are scumbags infinitely more successful than me out there anyway?
If no lie, you're living the dream
Even if you decided to get a job, you have money to live on your own without having to find a house mate.
>he thinks NEETs are capable of changing the world
The world isn't the same anymore. To do shit you need loads of investment, manpower and of course not getting fucked over by competitors/governments.
>drawing, writing, developping games
So creating even more venues of escapism?