getting older.
Posted by anon in Fear on Jan 17th, 2009 | 11 commentsi am 23, almost 24. but i cannot help but feel like i have wasted my youth. people will tell me that i am still young but i don’t feel like it. i feel like i should have accomplished so much more by now, and i just haven’t.
is this feeling going to get worse as i get older? i want to die.
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I understand how you feel. I’m 23 going on 24 too, and I used to feel as if time is flying by, and I’m wasting it. I agree this feeling is dreadful, but it only gets worse if you continue to think like that. Take the initiative and try new things, or start doing the things you want to do. Make your life more interesting by taking up new hobbies, or expand your network through social functions.
These are just suggestions, but hopefully you understand that there’s more to life than moping about the past. It’s what you do/plan in the present and future that matters.
I also just turned 23 last week and i can understand the way you feel. i too had done nothing or i achieved nothng despite my age unlike my peers where in they’re already an achiever, having a fulfilling life and an enjoyable routine every day.
i wasn’t able to finished my studies as they do so i was left behind but… opportunity open its door for me and despite my age, I am still willing to go on and cope up with the undone plans in my younger years. I am still willing to undergo or to take the path that i had taken long time ago that people in my age had already past through..
so guys, cheer up and don’t mess around. there’s still a lot of time days months and years for you to spend in this world before you’re finally getting old hags. chances and opportunities are every where if only we look for them then we can turn our boring, idle life into a fulfilling one.
such desperation will not help you instead it will worsen your self pity blues. get rid of it and try renewing your lifestyle try doing things which will bring out the true you. goodluck
wow yes im 17 and i feel that way. im totally wasted my 15 and 16. i have not accomplished much. just a job and did well in school. id be very depressed if i hadn’t accomplish much by 24. i strongly suggest you make a list of goals.
like getting a good job or starting a business finding a wife, what ever it might be. you only have like 5 years before you become an old man.
I’m 21 going on 22 and I started to feel that way a couple of weeks ago and I’m getting quite worried that I’m wasting my youth. Quarter life crisis? Feel as though my teen years have been wasted.Guess I don’t want my twenties to be the same…
I feel the same way. I feel like I should be carefree and enjoying my youth but I don’t have any energy and am often depressed. I feel like I wasted my youth being sad and thinking too much, when I should be out living it up. My joints hurt all the time and it’s hard for me to relax and have fun with friends. I feel like the perfect embodiment of that saying that youth is wasted on the young.
I’m 54 and i’ve felt the same as you since I was 22. And always at the same level of wortliness. It never changed for me. I feel that way right now. I kept saying that I was going to at least get a 4 year degree never did. Now I’m just a truck driver and a cook. And I feel like crap. I should have push myself a litle bit more and made some sacrifices to become what I used to dream about becoming….Dont let that be you.
Man, I remember when I turned 24 I felt old and not so savvy in financial matters. Its ok to feel what you are feeling but keep it movin, takin it one day at a time. Trust, you don’t want to turn 34 saying the same things… Learn your lessons and don’t be too hard on yourself, we all had to learn how to crawl before walking.
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You’re still young. I sumtimes feel that way to (i’m 27 now as of this writing) but you can’t dwell on the past. What’s done is done? Just try to better yourself in the future. Whoever said that your life has to be stable after you get out of college is complete bull. Sumtimes we’re still in the growing up stage in our 20′s. So don’t fret and keep your head up.
Some times I feel the same way, but i’m 56. I would suggest making a list of 5 things you would like to accomplish. Keep it realistic, things you can really accomplish. Put the most important on the top. Then take one thing at a time, and put forth an honest effort. I’m sure you will make yourself proud.
Bloody hell reading the comments it appears ur not the only one who needs 2 get a life! Ur all so depressing! God sake, scratch ya arse and get happy!
I know you are not looking forward to hearing this, but after all, 24 is not old at all! You truly are still young. Try to think about the things in your youth that made you happy, and try to reenact them. Like for example, if it was running through sprinklers ( I don’t know, just pitching ideas here ) then go to a waterpark with friends. If it was getting your license, take a SAFE joyride around town, like you would if you were 16. Do remember that you are not alone, and many others ( if you read the comments above) are having the exact problem. You are still young, try to remember that. Another way to do it, take sticki notes and stick them on places you always use each day ( If you live with people, do it only on one day) write ” I am still young and people know that” On them. Or something else. Don’t get the birthday blues, people who are 40 are having the same problem as you!