Spent My Youth Preparing for a Life I Never Got 🥀
Hi, I’m 24 and honestly feel very lost in life right now. I’ve made a lot of wrong decisions and sometimes it feels like I ruined my career before it even properly started. Even though I finally know what I truly want to do now, I still feel very behind in life.
The hardest part is that I spent most of my life just studying and trying to build a better future. I never partied, never travelled, never really lived life much. I always thought sacrificing fun would someday give me a better life.
But now I look at my friends enjoying life, earning, travelling, making memories, and sometimes it hurts realizing I never really got to live those years at all.
And honestly, it was never just about career. I just wanted a better life so badly, but somehow I ended up in an even worse place mentally.
Right now I’m trying to find a job, honestly anything that pays, so I can at least stop feeling like a burden on my parents and slowly figure my life out again
I just wanted to ask people older than me: did any of you also feel completely lost in your 20s? If you did, how did things eventually get better for you? I would genuinely love to hear any advice, life lessons, or even small things that helped you keep going during difficult times. Right now I think I just need a little hope that life can still turn around.