QuarterLife Crisis

Anyone else undergoing the stress of approaching their early thirties and realizing they haven't accomplished much yet? Lately I've been getting pretty depressed with my life and my accomplishments. It's like everybody I've grown up with is living the life, getting married, getting their careers together and I'm still here working at the same place since college ended nowhere near the salary I want to make. Ugh I need to get my shit together.

Yea I am almost 30 and kinda wonder what the hell happened. Things will get better though if you try to make it so. I was told I would never be able to get better and would use a cane and be on steriods the rest of my life. Now I am off all meds and I can walk and run almost as good as I used to. Now that I am better I fine myself wanting more. A better life. Which one day I am sure I will get it.

Oh I know what you mean, hell I'm only 20 and already I see my friends who are the same age or even younger than I am living the high life - getting married and working high paying jobs. Hell one of the girls I went to school with is a fairly famous model now and I'm just here being terrible at everything ever. I'm just trying hard to learn to deal with this kind of stuff but it always catches up to me no matter what I do.

I apologize for how morbidly depressing this is going to sound but sometimes I've debated on deleting my Facebook since lately that site is just a constant reminder of how happy everyone else is. I mean there has even been a study correlating Facebook usage and depression. Despite that I do know that a lot of people use it to show a facade of happiness but either way it always gets to me... like what the fuk am I doing with my life.

I deleted my facebook so my private life wasn't accessible to anyone that easily anymore. Now I'm like that fluffy, distant unicorn to everyone and people love actually talking to me and getting to know me better since it's the only reliable source they have left, lel.

I definitely understand what you mean epikly, honestly I feel the same way from time to time but to be honest, there's no real point in deleting Facebook, because once you figure out what the problem is and how to achieve it, you'll have your chance to rub it in everybody else's face and I reckon you'd deserve to do that. If everybody else gets to be happy, then people like us do too. The way I see it, we just haven't really found what we need to be truly happy yet. I suppose in a way we're kind of late comers and we have to face more challenges than most others, that's usually a thing I found for people within any kind of geek culture. Right now, I'm kind of suffering under a pretty nasty inferiority complex ^^" It's kind of horrible but I'm sort of taking small steps towards getting out of that, trying to see things from a new angle and changing my mindset and perspective of myself and the world. I think it does come down to comparing ourselves with people who have had more success which is always an easy thing to do and I'm also someone who does that way too much. But since we have this topic going, I think it'd be nice to finally talk to someone about it, honestly I've been quite afraid of telling people haha!

Yeah I might end up regretting I made this topic myself. Like way to announce your weaknesses to everyone. But whatever.

I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Nobody's invincible, we all have our weaknesses no doubt and some have more than others. But that's okay because you know, just talking about it with other people who understand that shitty feeling, helping each other out is always rather nice if you ask me. Sometimes we just a little more oomph, some gusto from our fellow comrades to steer us in the right direction y'know?