I hope this is the right place to post, looked at all the forums and felt like this was the most appropriate.
I'm 21 years old and just about to graduate from uni with a degree in English Literature. The problem I have now is that I've just realised how pointless it is! I apologise now to anyone reading this, I hope no one gets offended as I am writing here to ask for everyone's advice.
All my life I've enjoyed literature and wanted to be a writer, but in September of last year I just started to lose enthusiasm for the subject. I was in the library reading a critical theory book when it occurred to me, the only people who will ever read this books are students like me, and after reading the book, writing an essay on it, they will leave university to go off and write books like these for other students to read. It's just an endless cycle, and at the end of the day it's all a bit pointless. All we're doing is reading literature and then passing judgement on it, and who gives us the right to do that? Literature is art, it shouldn't be studied and analysed and judged, sure it's good to be wide-read and appreciative of literature, but critiquing it?
I'm about to leave university and go into the world of employment, where most likely I will be working with books, reading and judging. Is this all there is? Have I wasted three years of my life reading books? I mean, they're just books! Surely I should have done something worthwhile with my time and just read in my spare time?
Help me out guys, give me some of your passion that I see and read in the way you write, in the way you discuss literature with each other. What am I missing here? I had passion for literature once upon a time, why have I lost it now? How can I get it back? Sorry for bringing down the tone of what is an excellent and happy forum, but if anyone can help me get my love of literature back I know it's you lot! Thanks for reading, and please help
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