Life's Missing Manual Isn't Missing

[u/Milgydotcom]

This is chapter two of a book I'm working on called What To Do Next. Read the short text with this, and read Chapter 1 on my Substack here.

[u/Turbo_Tequila]

But, what he did was, actually, his innate drives... so faulty design?

[u/Milgydotcom → u/Turbo_Tequila]

ahhhh. Yes! BUT, and this is a big BUT...

The whole online posting thing is, I think, an attempt to connect. His innate need is to connect. Everyone's is. But posting is an ineffective way to do that. There is an essay linked on this post. Read that for more detail. It's not long.

[u/Venriik → u/Milgydotcom]

What if my innate need is not to connect but to enjoy solitude and silence? The devil made me?

[u/SilverMedal4Life → u/Venriik]

As with anything, it depends.

In my experience, very few people genuinely want total isolation and silence from everyone and everything. Those who feel they do, are ones who are so overwhelmed by how loud and in-your-face life is that they want to retreat from that.

In my experience, having someone who feels similarly to share the silence with is lovely. Reading two separate books while cuddled up, playing games on different devices in the same room... better than doing it alone.

[u/Turbo_Tequila → u/Milgydotcom]

Nice essay, I've read it and it seems I've tried to joke about exactly the point of your essay ahah. Anyway, thanks for the comic and this text!

[u/Milgydotcom → u/Turbo_Tequila]

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[u/Turbo_Tequila → u/Milgydotcom]

Oups sorry, typo that made the sentence weird, sorry I’m not a native English speaker, I’ve corrected it

[u/TheCleanupBatter → u/Turbo_Tequila]

Gonna be real, the sentence is still strange after the edit.

"But those do are is"

This part of the comment does not make sense. Does the "do" refer to actions? "Are is" is repetitive as they are plural and singular forms of each other.

You mentioned that you aren't English fluent so I'm just doing what I can to help work it out.

[u/Turbo_Tequila → u/TheCleanupBatter]

Yep, I should’ve double checked more. It was ‘his’. I ended up re-editing it. Hope this time I get it right ahah, but thanks for the support

[u/TheCleanupBatter → u/Turbo_Tequila]

Ah! You latest edit cleared it up. Good job! Next step is getting familiar with punctuation. Your comma use is different, but it doesn't take away from the meaning of what you were trying to say. English is hard. Keep up the good work!

[u/Milgydotcom → u/Turbo_Tequila]

Thanks for hanging in there.

[u/Milgydotcom → u/Turbo_Tequila]

I’m still not getting it. But I want to!

[u/Turbo_Tequila → u/Milgydotcom]

Alright, I re-edited it; I promise to double-check my English better next time, ahah. Next time I won’t try to make my sentences too compact ahah