feeling like I’m late to life Anonymous 113042
I’m 24. Working a dead-end job but I support myself okay for now. I’ve got my own car and a cat I love and I sporadically make lots of art (that I don’t share really). Im slowly taking steps to go back to college but I feel like I’m so late in getting a career and set up in life and stuff.
Writing it all out there it doesn’t sound so bad, but I spend a lot of my time doing nothing - or at least playing videogames, reading or writing, and watching movies. I feel like if I spent all my time working on bettering myself and my skills I’d be so much farther ahead in life right now… but at the end of the day I’m always tired and feel on the edge of burning out. I don’t have a lot of money and there are things I want to do and projects I want to start but I just can’t yet. I don’t have a relationship or any one skill I can show off and be confident in. And I don’t feel like I’m allowed to be proud of my life when I see a lot of my friends starting their careers and getting settled down. Any other nonas who feel like they’re always behind? I know it’s probably not just me but gosh I get so discouraged about it
Anonymous 113043
ur not alone at all. i'm 22, turning 23 and i still feel like an awkward, socially inept helpless child sometimes. it sucks. i'm returning to college after failing out, i work a part-time where i'm hardly respected or even spoken to, got no friends or significant other. it really does feel like a repetitive, cyclical void of dread and monotony. i'm shut-in and online almost 24/7 and i hate it but i know nothing else. but the small things are still worth something, i think. idk exactly what's up with you but ik depression and apathy eats me alive inside. you sink further and further, to a degree where getting out and actually doing something feels futile. like you'd hardly done anything at all. but comparison is a fool's game when it comes to your friends and others, it only gets you deeper in that void. you're not them, and they aren't you. and the time will pass anyway, with or without you. do with what you have, i hope soon you'll look back and see you've gotten somewhere, if not far. we're all stuck in this shitty fucking void together, at least.
Anonymous 113074
I'm 27 now, I went back to school at 25. I'm objectively behind in life. Most of my friends started working in their early or mid twenties, several of them have already bought a home with their partner. It sucks being behind. On the other hand I try to think of it this way: I'm enjoying my time in school, I have a roof above my head even if it's not my own, I have hobbies that I enjoy. So does it really matter that much that my friends are ahead? Their days aren't significantly more fun or more enjoyable just because they have a carreer or a home or a relationship. I also live for me, I don't have to have something to be proud of and show off as long as I'm enjoying my life. Idk if that makes sense. If you ever want to talk, lmk.
Anonymous 113076
>>113043Your life sounds exactly the same as mine. My days are so boring and when I have a day with nothing to do I'm filled with dread.
>>113042>there are things I want to do and projects I want to start but I just can’t yetSo true, sometimes I wish I didn't live with family so I could do hobbies or go anywhere without people knowing.
