I feel like I completely squandered my youth and wasted my life. I spent my late teens and early twenties doing nothing. I worked, I wasted money, I spent my free time sitting at home, in my mom's basement. I never went to college, so I never had a "wild oats" period of my life. Society seems to dictate that young SWM act a certain way or get ( Read more... )

I don't know what all to share here, but the gist of the story is that I am almost 43 and I have no idea what I am going to do with the rest of my life. I am currently unemployed and I am struggling to find a new job. The biggest hurdle is that I don't have a formal education or any sort of training for anything other than the same kind of jobs I ( Read more... )

constantly hating myself, doubting myself, second-guessing myself. feeling like no one really will ever understand me. assuming i'll always make the wrong choices, not taking criticism easily and struggling to make my voice heard. feeling like even the few people in my life, whom i actually care about, still see me as a failure. never being able to ( Read more... )

Why is it that we are compelled to place so much of our sense of self worth solely on what sort of work we do? One of the most common questions between two people, upon meeting for the first time, is to what sort of job they have. As if simply having a job isn't quite enough to justify one's existence ( Read more... )

The existential dread/depression. The indecisive anxiety and frustrating lack of motivation. The irritability and anger over things I can't control, but can't keep myself from stressing out over ( Read more... )

My fiancée and I somehow got onto the subject of the "National Lampoon" movies, specifically the "Vacation" series. I asked what one was her favorite and she replied it was "Vegas." I almost immediately could see it, she's not a huge movie person and prefers TV shows to films ( Read more... )

Do you ever feel like you have to downplay your depression when you are around close friends or loved ones, because you worry that having to hear about it will only annoy those people ( Read more... )

I work in an automotive industry job. I've been with the company for almost 8 years in for the last, roughly 2 years, I have been working in the company's corporate lab. I essentially do quality control and durability tests on the parts. Nothing too fancy and nothing too exciting, but it's not a terrible job given the fact that I don't have a ( Read more... )

Think about it. If more people, especially those who are in positions of power and influence, had better and more satisfying relationships in their lives, more of us would be a lot happier and less likely to be assholes.
And I'm not just talking about romantic/sexual relationships, I'm definitely including platonic ones. We spend more time around ( Read more... )

I sometimes feel like I was born either 20 years too early or 20 years too late. I think I would have had more fun, had I been in my 20s back in the 80s, but I would have flourished and grown more if I was in my 20s today. For example, when I watch older movies from my youth, I see the older kids of back then, in the prime of their lives, in what ( Read more... )