Just turned 28 and still no Hogwarts letter
I'm 28 F, grown as heck and yet I broke down sobbing yesterday because of the reality that I'll never wake up and be an immortal magical being who spends their life questing and adventuring and saving the world. Like even if your only goal in life is to become rich, as long as you're still alive that's a possibility..but my dreams can never come true. I'm still a mortal human working 40 hrs a week to barely survive. Does anyone else feel like reading too much fantasy has been detrimental to their mental health like this? I'm genuinely so heart broken that I'll never get to go on an adventure in middle earth.
It's another episode of "Help! I never grew up!" where OP goes to the hugbox that probably helped her into this mess
Most of the responses are well-intentioned (and mostly r-slurred) advice about how to step away from the cliff of psychosis, but these brave few tell OP to do a cannon ball into insanity
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Listen, you cannot possibly think that your existence ends here. Your consciousness will always live on as non-existence is not possible. We all will get reincarnated. | (I lost the link for this one)
(The assumptions and extrapolations being that OP should go outside)
You go, King! Fight the power! 
Let them know we won't take it lying down when they tell us... Uh, wait, hang on a second... 
When they tell us "poor people have any agency at all in their lives"!
Even the average /r/fantasy user found this to be too loserish and offered a rebuttal
These guys take the topic as seriously as it deserves
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Yeah I had to stop watching that Pixar movie cars for the same type thing. I was absolutely heart broken that I would never be a car. I mean people who dream of being a dr have a chance but me?! No!!! I'll never be a car!!! And it's not fair!!!!! 38m
Have you considered becoming a vagrant?
You'd get to go on epic adventures to acquire loot (copper piping) while avoiding the minions of the Dark Lord (the police).
This is good advice. She might disavow reading entirely after one of those
Your in good company. The world is full of delusional people who are looking forward to a future existence in a magical wonderland... It's called religion.
I remember telling a CBT therapist I had that there were deep issues in my life that couldn't be solved. He asked me, in a can-do way, what kind of issues. I said, 'Well, for example, the fact there are no dragons.'
He was lost for a reply haha.
And then he used my payment for that session to wipe his tears after being verbally destroyed
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Well she's a basic b-word, so no problems there with something like pottery. But she needs hobbies grounded in reality, so most of them sound like an improvement. Pottery classes involve actual people, for example.
The Romanian hostel is my favourite idea, though.
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For some reason i don't think making mediocre clay bowls alone at home is going to fix her existential crisis
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Meeting people when learning to make clay garbage will do her good however.
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Maybe not, but her existential crisis is a really dumb one, so I can't see it hurting, either.
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are you fricking r-slurred lmao
they're talking about taking pottery "classes" - you go to a pottery studio with a bunch of other people, none of you know how to make pottery, and you all make shitty clay bowls together
they're not talking about her buying her own kiln right off the bat
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Sure whatever but that's still the lamest and most reddit idea possible. Have an existential crisis because no social life? Try this hobby for shut-ins
Sure you take some classes first and meet some people but they're all redditors most likely
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She sounds r-slurred and might honestly just need a make-work kinda project instead of reading fantasy slop 8 hours a day. Kinda like how we used to give mentally r-slurred guys jobs as switch operators on railroads
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Doing the real world nature adventures they suggest is the best cure for city person ennui. I believe we are hard wired to find deep primal satisfaction in reaching a peak, observing and correctly identifing game or edible plants, or crossing a natural obstacle. Of course, when you are a 230lb mass of saturated fat, these simple successes may be out of reach.
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Oh absolutely. But maybe don't solo backpack through the cheapest possible eastern European hostels as a girl
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American fantasy novel addicts are unrapeable even to gypsies so she should be fine
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Darn, could this be the way to fix India?
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I wouldn't count on that. I've seen the things these guys knock up
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She'll probably be blown away by half a real life experience though.
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Getting s*x trafficked could be considered an adventure, not a great one, but definitely an adventure.
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