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e08f27 No.272

What kinds of things do normal people do? Not "normal" as in chads and stacies with an IQ of 85 who make bad choices and will die from STDs and liver failure, but like actually happy normal people with a wife and kids and a house who are genuinely satisfied with their lives.

4c1704 No.273

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>>272

I live with normies, the happy kind with wives and kids and homes who are satisfied with their lives, and I can tell you that they spend most of their time socializing. That is to say, very few of their daily activities are solitary, and even when they are at work or around people they don't necessarily like all that much, they are talking and gossiping and arguing and sharing stories and bragging/complaining about their families, etc. For a happy normie, life is all about interacting with other people, not about solitary or anonymous pursuits. Even introverted normies (yes, they do exist) tend to order their lives around other people and gain a lot of happiness from the few good relationships and friendships they posess.

People like us, on the other hand, are just "different" in some way that prevents us from socializing normally. We still have the same need for it as a normie, and if we could overcome the mental and emotional obstacles in our way, we could even gain the same pleasure from social interaction. But as things usually stand, our forays into the social world are short and calculated, and we need time to recover from them. This is why we spend most of our time on our hobbies, alone.

That being said, that doesn't mean that we are worth less than them or that we are not capable of happiness. We just have a harder time fulfilling our need for interaction.


5539f2 No.289

>>273

>are just "different" in some way that prevents us from socializing normally

Most of the time this would be a disinterest in the completely mundane or just most things in total. The most important thing required from you to be able to talk with others is having a topic to share. If everything you do is centred around one or two things and you don't pay any attention to anything else you have nothing to say in most situations to begin with. And even if you can follow the conversation, it might be so pointless to you can't find the energy to talk.

But even so as you said yourself we are still human and mostly wish for some form of a happy social life. The truth is we are hipsters. We are think of ourselves as too cool for the plebs. We have quite high standards for friends. Might as well be dreaming about having a group of friends you can only find in some comedy and no one will ever be quite like that.


21e99f No.303

>>272

Most of their days are spent keeping things in order. This means constant cleaning, making minor repairs to their homes and vehicles, tending to their gardens, mowing their lawns, writing shopping lists, preparing meals, balancing their budgets, checking calendars to see whose birthdays or anniversaries are coming up, going to their childrens' school functions such as parent-teacher conferences and football games, catching up on office work at home, taking care of their aging parents, etc. They actually have very little downtime. Being a normie is exhausting.


e08f27 No.307

>>303

That sounds both awful and kind of nice. Probably better than being restless, bored, and irritable all the time as a shut in. Having infinite free time to watch anime stops being fun after a while and feels awful when it's your whole life.


21e99f No.309

>>307

Yeah, exactly. While having a bunch of tasks to get through each day can be tiresome and annoying (and normies do experience plenty of stress, but it's a different type of stress than NEETs feel) it also helps keep negative feelings like depression and boredom at bay. My parents are both in their 60s and retired, but they still work all day long at huge projects (they completely remodeled their kitchen, for example), because to them, the alternative–doing nothing–is unthinkable.




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