How do I learn to appreciate and feel emotion when reading novels that focus on these subjects; romance...

maybe you're just a psychopath user have you ever stopped to consider that? i of course mean no insult and refer to the clinical definition

>psychopath
definitely not I'm submissive and passive in every aspect

>You'd be far better rewarded by going without any kind of sex or sexuality for a couple months while you focus on personal growth. Then come back for feels.
Not him but how does that work?

start by being human

Yeah you are definitely a psychopath

first you need to stop posting thots

Reading about things in general is boring.

You can start by giving me SAUCE

sophie mudd

pictures of girls like this are now starting to me feel sad, i can't even really get that excited about them anymore.

Psychopathy does not mean le batedexter turbochad irl

I'll feel bad if I inconvenience someone though
I'll apologise excessively and bow my head

are you an anime?

Milk truck have arrive

Stop being a neet

I know that feel mang.

Unironically, stop watching porn

she's dating stacey dash's son if you feel like being jealous of someone

too edgy

Just read books that are mroe relevant to your time and then, once your emotions, and your ability to get lost in a book, develop, you'll have a better time getting into it.
People used to read because it was really enjoyable, not because they were waiting for tv to be invented.

First is disciplining yourself away from baser desires. Second is routing that energy and leveraging efforts to hop to a higher level of growth than plateauing. Sex drains the same energy that could be used to grow or develop rapidly; if abstaining healthily, and not out of anger or spite or depression. It's why monks and clergy tended toward abstinence while the average dude or chick who faps frequently doesn't have the energy to rocket themselves to a higher level. Third is learning to focus on yourself and your growth in a healthy manner -- the longer you go without, the stronger the primal "need" for it builds up.... you learn to incorporate that primal beast into who you are and advance or you plateau, stagnate, and die off.

testosterone deficiency bros, not even memeing
eat better, drink less, work out a bit
even if you don't "get bitches" you'll feel much better, just for yourself

Yeah, being too much a consumer will essentially ruin you if that's all you do.

The fewer interactions you have with humanity, the less frequently you grow to overcome a challenging circumstance, and the less work you do all whittle away at how capable and competent you are as an individual.

To put it more concretely, you dull yourself to what you don't like, or what you fear, instead of facing the challenge and growing. It's about on par with smoking weed.... it doesn't seem so bad now, but you're building habits that'll destroy your future and lock you into a shitty existence with few options.

Smoking once in a while, meh, but frequently? Twice a day, or any time you think or feel you can't handle something? Your IQ drops (I believe it was something like 15 points for every 6-8 years) + you create for yourself a psychological dependence. Sometimes you literally will be incapable of sleeping without fapping (or smoking, in the case of weed).

Your senses will be so dulled you won't notice the smell of semen and sweat covering you all the time. You won't even know you're thinking in a fog. Your energy for everything else is diminished, your tolerance and capacity for love, compassion, empathy dim. Combine that with lack of contact, high consumption of various media, and sense of not having done anything substantial put you into a cynical depressive state. Even if you let go, you wouldn't be able to feel properly, at best you could only sympathize with characters. You might find them more real or interesting than real people.

The cynicism's the worst, imo. Your entire world is shades of blandness and greys, your source of joy becomes conflicts, events, things, or people you make fun of. You deride happiness, scorn optimism, and don't give anyone a chance. You do the minimum amount of work that qualifies as effort and fail, just to say you did put in effort. May not have values, or even know you don't have them, or how they affect you.

See & on spirituality.

>Of course, I'm well aware this could be bait, but I wish I'd have read this myself a few decades ago when I was in a similar place. Much luck to you user.

Romance and marriage are intriguing to me, when done right. The rest are meh, especially children, who cares about them kek.

Long ago, there was romance in the works, there are no more, nothing but emptiness ...
m.youtube.com/watch?t=38s&v=Y3JQSPCVuLM
m.youtube.com/watch?v=EFJ7kDva7JE

how do you know that

Lovely music, wise comment, great truth. Thanks!

>Your entire world is shades of blandness and greys, your source of joy becomes conflicts, events, things, or people you make fun of.
I remember thinking Blood Meridian was a cozy novel whenever I sat down to read it, I thought the book was beautiful and calming; the stars rolling over the edge of the earth, the vast expanse of desert, solitary hawks and vultures, blue mountains on the horizon, shows of camaraderie (albeit limited) and hospitality. Such a picturesque novel, plenty of comedic relief too mainly during the parlays with the mexicans/injinns. I remember laughing all the way through cast away (not just when he starts to lose his mind)
Don Quixote was good too aside from the romance parts and I enjoyed moby dick mainly due to the fact there were hardly any children/women
I feel like Ishmael and the kid are the ideal characters to experience a novel with, no responsibilities (Ishmael just gets paid to see the sights, the kid is just flung from party to party), theres hardly any civilisation in either of these novels nothing to remind me of work or family/community ties just desert, few crumbling towns/cities and endless sea
I realise why I really enjoyed both of them, aside from melvilles relaxing, expansive sentences, soliloquys and blank verse

Do you know of anything I can read with literary merit similar to these two? I'd go back to Vance and Wolfe but I already read most of their best works over a year ago and I could do with something new

You cannot experience this emotions because such concepts as marriage, family, children, romance are all utility objects to you. Having a girlfriend for people like you is just a commodity one has to obtain in order to have social status. Even you posting half-naked models only proves it, for women for you are just objects that you use only to jack off.