Is /monkmode/ a meme?

Good mindset. Focus on yourself.

I went /monk/ for several years whilst I was in university. I read, worked out, no drink or drugs. Now I'm in a much better position than virtually everyone I know. Theyve all seem to have remained in stasis. It's worth it if you want to achieve what you want. You can't rely on external validation.

My natural sleep cycle pushes me to stay up a hour later each day. Over summer breaks I have just gone with it sometimes. Otherwise my schedule was the same each day. Wake up breakfast, write, workout, lunch... It is a bit weird to have dinner at 4am or whatever. But I was much more productive. I felt so much more awake, even with the lucid dreaming. Had to abandon social obligations but who likes people anyway. Can't do it with a job though. (Also don't spiral into madness. Solipsism is a little too attractive. )

why don't you start today and leave Yea Forums as well? would be a win-win for everyone

>why would you want to listen to a failure's experience?
Are you fucking retarded or something?

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>Summer vacation
You have to be 18 to post here.

i got rid of social media in august. it was the first step. i stopped talking to anybody i didn't really give a shit about. i've spent the last several months reading, writing and working out. that's step three. i have yet to ascend. i still wanna kill myself but that's probably my chemical imbalance because i've wanted to kill myself for as long as i can remember. godspeed user

I have this too. Really difficult to deal with and has always made holding down a job hard.

Some semi-famous person has it. A sci-fi author? I forget. I think he had some complicated solution with melatonin... I don't know, my solution is just to be kinda tired all the time. It isn't that bad for me. I've never lost a job or anything.

How are you going to afford to do this? Being a hermit is black pilled though. It's okay if your self-satisfaction can surpass your regrets, but that's only if your successful in what you value more.

it's a meme because there is no realistic escape. You're just trying to live the lifestyle of someone in the past but within the confines of a modern environment. You will just give up.

I wish I was rich so I lived in a comfy villa with huge library and all time spent reading the finest books and tomes of knowledge,until I finally find the meaning of life

I am essentially there, I do not use the internet or tech really, the only reason I have internet is because I got a phone with internet so I could shop for land or a boat to live on more effectively, so I am taking advantage of it while I have it, extending my knowledge in a few areas and getting a nice big list of authors to explore. I spend most of my time working wood with handtools, reading, cooking and playing music, do lots of foraging and fishing when the season is in. That is pretty much my life, it suits me, but I have always preferred solitude.

If you have any connection to people I expect the biggest hurdle to this lifestyle is living within society but apart from it, I have noticed many here and in the real world like to pretend they are separate, and generally better, but no one actually outside of society would talk as much as those sorts tend too. I have no idea if it is worth doing, it is just the way I am, but you asked if it is worth doing, you want to read 'great works' become physically stronger, and work on art, it sounds like you want to make yourself into something for societies sake and not your own. Can not really say that is a bad thing, just an observation.

Thanks for the replies anons, I figure I'll clarify my ideas a little bit.

I don't want to leave society for ever, and in fact plan to remain tangentially a part of the social world even while in "monk mode". I'm still going to hang out with friends occasionally (perhaps once a month), but I'm going to refrain from social media/internet use as much as possible. I'm also going to avoid women and romantic chasing in general as I've spent far too much time chasing coochie these past few months.

I'm a university student and will be living at home over the summer break. I'll have a job working in a garden center, which is mostly just tending plants and such, so should be very meditative and comfy.

My ultimate goal with this is to focus on developing my aesthetic and moral ideas. Its also an experiment for me in the nietzschean/dionysian/mishima idea of "living life as art". I'm trying my best to "create a totality", a synthesis ala Goethe/Mishima of art and action, the sword and the chrysanthemum. This is all really retarded, but so am I, and I'm willing to autistically go through with it.

I'm leading a similar life now as it is, and I'm really genuinely happy with how I'm living, but I haven't fully committed yet. I haven't gone all the way, and I want to see what happens when I do.