The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.
anyone else procrastinate things they want to do? i want to play my games so bad, i want to read all the manga i have, but i dont do any of it and doomscroll and sleep instead like WHYYY do i do that and whenever i do start playing/reading i get annoyed in like 10 minutes HELPMEE
somewhere in your 20s or 30s you’ll get the opportunity to rebuild your life after a negative loop. its very important that you see that journey through
pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors
so now it's like 'the point of doing them is to get good at them' and not 'this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives.