How to stop feeling like picrel
>>32317701Realize fully all the things you have barely, or don't even have access to yet. If you're American, you could only start legally drinking at 21. You can't join a police force or special services division until 24. You can't rent a vehicle until 25. You can't run for president until you're 35.You can still become a father and a grandfather. You can still begin, build, and leave a legacy.Most 22 year olds don't have careers. Most barely have jobs. Most still live at home and never left the immediate area from where they were born or grew up.22 is the BEGINNING of the story, after all your tutorial area ages.
>>32317701You've got to let go of the past, take ownership of the present, and be responsible for the future. All much easier said than done. Ruminating about what you should have or could have done, letting your thoughts be dominated by endless hypotheticals that you play in your head, trying to divine some way that, if you could go back and change things it would go differently, is useless and counter-productive. The past is gone, it doesn't exist anymore, you cannot change it, you don't control it, and so any energy you put into it is impotent. The good news is, whoever you were before, the person you feel made mistakes, missed opportunities, didn't take action, he doesn't have to exist anymore either. You don't have to be him if you don't want to. He will always be a part of you, in the way that the beginning chapter of a book is a part of a story, but it doesn't determine what the middle must be, nor how the ending turns out, it only sets the stage for the events to come. Your story can be one of redemption, change, growth, evolution, and that beginning chapter (which is relative to where you are now) is the circumstance you learn to rise above. You can choose who you wish to become, largely, by taking responsibility for your mistakes, forgiving yourself for them, and resolving to do better next time. You must make an effort, and really any effort will do. You don't have to choose a given path and stay with it all the way, because so long as you are trying, making changes, learning new things, having new experiences, you will become someone new, and even if you don't ultimately see a path through to the end, you will come away having gained so many things that help you find where you want to go.The way to stop feeling like you've wasted time is to stop wasting it, to take the initiative, to express the control you wield in your life, and to try. You'll never regret trying your best and failing, and certainly not as much as not having tried at all.
>>32317701>How to stop feeling like picrelHow did you get a beard like that at 22?WTF?
>>32317701you'll never stop feeling like this but you'll get used to it
>>32318879This
I honestly hope that you don't stop feeling like that. I'm so sick of seeing fuckheads who aren't even 30 yet bitch and moan that their lives are over.If your lives are over and are so irreparably fucked then kill yourselves. There's no point in living if your life can't possibly be fixed or set on the correct course, yeah? So end it. End it now.
>>32317701Understand that probably in the first month you hit 30, you will look at yourself right now as a retard. In fact a retards thoughts will be more valuable than your thoughts right now, because the retard at least knows its core needs. You knew a lot as a teenager because you didn't presume to have a perspective on anything, but at 22, thinking you have seen anything is like playing the tutorial of a videogame then knocking the game off saying you beat it. Even the feeling of pic related is simply the vision of getting old from faraway. You haven't even had anything at 22 you could possibly waste. Everything in the world however, would love for you to waste your twenties.
>>32320529That was overly preachy I'm the retard disregard
>>32317701Your not in your 30s yet, it's not even over in your 30s but it's harder than getting started in your 20s. Work on what you want to achieve in life right now instead of just wallowing away that you won't get those 22 years back.
>>32317701I am 40 and none of my hopes and dreams materialized.40 years wasted away with nothing to show for. The few things that I had in life I lost them the past few years. My health is deteriorating, my youth is gone, my friends abandoned, my energy is depleted, my motivation is absent, my savings evaporated. There is nothing left now, just the emptiness remains.
>>32321821stop spamming this demoralization garbage
non ironically accept Christ and realize it's not up to you.
>>32317701I need you to realize that all of that time you spent, how long that feels? You have at least 3 more of those to go. It's far from over, highschool and the people you went there with was the tutorial level.
>>32321821The face looks weird
>>32321821I'm 44 and I'm happy, successful, and I look and feel great.Git gud.
