How do you balance between asthetics and action?

If it wasn´t for the internet I would be a much simpler person. I would not have started reading through all the works of Plato in order if I did not see people shitposting about him here. Nor would I have found so many cool movies, games or albums that only a handful of people in my city knows about. However the digital is also an endless void that exploits your every weakness to siphon your soul and replace it with empty fleeting impressions.
Cool people spend their time doing cool things and hanging out with cool people, they dont spend hours in garbage chat servers or forums, they spend it perfecting their craft. Yet I would also be way less cool if i was not inspired by the things I saw.

The people who know the answer are most likely too busy to respond, but maybe we can dialogue our way to an answer.

>Cool people spend their time doing cool thing and hanging out with coo—

How old are you anon?

>>24576523
This. I must say the most disheartening thing about becoming an oldfag on this forum is seeing waves and waves of young people coming here asking the same questions over and over and setting up to make the same mistakes you did. There is nothing you can say to convey your own experience in a fruitful way: they don't have the experience and need to make it by themselves.
Writing is sort of a miracle in that it seems to be capable (although very rarely and with enormous effort) to make a breach and inject into someone fragments of lived experience from different times and different lives. For the rest everyone is isolated and it's very difficult to convey anything.

>>24576745
Yeah and the saddest part is that all the systems people come here to engage with - from the most ancient, like language and archetypical storytelling, to more recent ones like metaphysics - were built by guys who had the same insight you just described (that others will suffer similar fates as ourselves, and it’s very difficult to impart meaningful wisdom.) And sooner or later, each of those systems yielded to and were subverted by the overwhelming force of life. We live among the fragments of failed attempts to escape the cycle.