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Do Something w/ Your Life

Discussion in 'Loneliness' started by Dante Alighieri, Aug 17, 2016.

  1. Depression is a constant struggle for me. I feel a deep inner anguish from a combination of not feeling able to express myself properly and not having my life in order.

    I write music. I keep saying that I will go to an open mic or something, then I chicken out. Playing music is about the only thing in my life that I enjoy anymore. Everything else is a chore or worse.

    I still live with my mom at 30. I also failed out of college to the point that I lost my aid. I'm just trying to do what I can to get my shit together.

    I stopped doing drugs, so at least I have that. Though, I have this friend that comes over with alcohol every time we hang out. I'm thinking that I need to tell him to knock it off with the booze or we can't chill anymore.

    I have a part time job, though I'm looking for full time work. I'm trying to fix my credit, as I was extremely irresponsible in my younger years. I just wish that I had been more responsible and sensible when I was younger.

    If I have any wisdom to share with the younger users on Nofap, it would be this... Get your shit together, don't worry about finding a romantic partner. Focus on bettering yourself. Study hard in school, or if you don't want to go to school, figure out what it is that you are passionate about and just do it. Do it before you're old and full of regret.

    Sometimes I feel like it's too late and I can't stand being alive anymore. It's painful to see everyone else my age, and way younger, have careers, relationships and basically everything that a person could want.

    I used to feel so sad all the time that I couldn't get a girlfriend. I realize that was some cosmic joke that I played on myself. While I was wasting away wishing that I could find the girl of my dreams and doing drugs to take my mind off of the pain. I could have been making something of myself.

    Now, I'm no one. Just some poor shmoe that lives with his mom and has no future to look forward to. I didn't have enough ambition, procrastinated and masturbated until I had nothing.
     
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  2. recoome

    recoome Fapstronaut

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    well even i'm in similar situation. i'm 26. no real life friends. no career. no gf. sexual past is full of regrets. spent all life fapping n watching porn. wish i had put more effort n taken life seriously.
    truth is there is no afterlife. at least i dont believe in one. this life is all we have. at times i crack silly jokes with some folks here. it gives me some dopamine. it's all right.

    we cant compare our lives with our colleagues. everyone grew in different circumstances.
     
  3. MetalFapper

    MetalFapper Fapstronaut

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    Dude get a full time job delivering at a pizza place. Dead serious. It's very easy and the pay averages about 13$ an hour once you include tips.
     
  4. MaxGoof

    MaxGoof Fapstronaut

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    I agree with you, doing something with your life should be everyone's primary goal.
     
  5. Well, I am 31 and I know that feeling of hopelessness and thinking life is done and your just game over. But seriously, we are just at the beginning of our thirties and we still can get what we wish for. Do not underestimate what you can accomplish in 2,3,4 years. You would be amazed!
     
  6. iceman40

    iceman40 Fapstronaut

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    stop focusing on the stuff you don't have them focus on the things you do have. You have a wonderful mom who sports you, roof over your head for shelter, food and liquids to sustain and nourish you, your eyes work, your hands worked, you know his works, and I assume the rest your body works properly? So what right now you not focused and you don't have a career. Your healthy person and is able to do it and get a career and have a goal.

    We always focus on the stuff that we don't have but rarely do we focus on the things that we have until it's gone. One day your mom will not be around. One day you'll have to take care of herself hundred percent. One day you'll be so bold that you will be able to walk or see nice things because your eyes don't work anymore.

    With enough pain we always find a way to pick ourselves up.
     
  7. fapequalsdeath

    fapequalsdeath Fapstronaut

    Yeah, iceman said it. Focus on what you have not on what you don't have only IF you had done otherwise in the past. Delving into the past only works when you extract useful and practical advice from your experience. Life without pain is unimaginable if it were to be a life worth living. All great accomplishments require pain, without pain, we would not have reached the point where we build our character. Now, it's true that you could be in pain and really not get the feeling of fulfillment out of it. However, that's your choice buddy. It's up to you whether you'll get the good kind of pain, which will energize your being and cultivate your soul. Look at your life and imagine you are in your 20's. Knowing what you know now, what would you do differently? Ponder about it, develop a strategy, a way of life to avoid these next 10 years. You have the experience, now it's a matter of putting it into action. And boom there you go, you have grasped some part of this thing we call life.
     
  8. i am going in the same direction but this help me to get my shit together, thank you Dante alighieri
     
  9. Dziki007

    Dziki007 Fapstronaut

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    I know what you are feeling. Ehh deppresion, constatlny thoughts of "anyway its too late to do this" then 3 years after asking myself" why i hadnt done it" Fuucking siick circle. Lost past and lost future, yea. Try read book Power of Now by Ekchart Tolle, it really helped with depression and i look on world diffrently. This book is perfect for our times.
     

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