Just to start with I am not looking for anything sappy or “life is beautiful you need to wait” type things.
So it is just 6:36 am, and I am lying in bed. Its hot and humid, there is no electricity, only mosquitoes. It is just another one of those things that is making me wonder why do I live? I mean what is the point. I genuinely have no idea. I know if you “wait” things will get better. But why should I wait.
I want a guitar, I am trying to save up for it. But idk how long will it take. (If anyone wants a recommendation btw of some great song, try “odorouze” by yorushika, these days I am just listening to that on loop).
Anyway if I tell this to my parents I guess they will just say I am ungrateful; that I should be glad I have a roof over my head. I guess they are right. So many have it worse. I am ungrateful. But that doesn’t make life feel any worthwhile to me. It is just the same chore always. Go to school, college whatever. Do your responsibilities, please people, sleep, wake up repeat. Get sick sometimes for a change, and of course countless daily annoyances. From the bathroom lock getting stuck to your phone running out of charge midway, or your earphones when you need them the most.
It is not like I do not try to “live life” as others say. But everything requires money. What if you do not have unlimited of it? Then you have nothing. I guess coz I am a young student and I do not have any “family” for which people go through worse shit than me. I have parents and an elder brother. My brother already earns very well. I am not sure what any of this has to do with me.
I have also tried making friends. But what do I do with friends? Most of them hang out on instagram and shit like that anyway. Stuff I do not want to use. Even if I do make friends what do u do with friends? You just joke around with them or get a cup of tea.
People also sometimes to say to believe in god. I am not against that but I do not get god. How can I get anything anyway that is outside my own comprehension. Outside the laws of the universe, my brain cant visualize it. And I do not think the man in a sky god can be real.
“Life is like a machine gun, thats all I want to say. Sing it with refrain, hey, all at once from the throat”
When I try to think of my reason for living. It is just because I am alive. What else should I do? Do nothing? I have done that too when I was depressed for a year. It is not really much of a choice. Does anyone else relate?
I wish I was good at music and could make a song out of my feelings that is not delusional pop. But my parents think music is a distraction and bad, and I remember asking my teachers multiple times when I was in school. Once when I was 10years old. Once when I was 16. But they pushed me away because the rich charismatic kids get all. I was shy and I couldn’t even introduce myself. Maybe I am a pushover. Yeah I was. I am better now however. I just do not ask anyone for favors anymore. And after that sentence my earphones ran out of charge. I do not have the motivation to write in silence.
You need to read a lot more books.
Just wait! Life actually gets worse!!!
I am making a joke but at the same time, I’m 52. I squeaked through the 70’s and 80’s with an alcoholic father who liked to beat up my mother and I. Once I turned 16, I left home. Mom committed suicide after I left.
Ended up doing some college, then computer programming after a stint in the Air Force. Spent my 20’s pretty much dizzy as hell, I loved girls and pool and darts and bars. Spent my 30’s teaching English in Asia. Had some fun and dangerous times over there, always research your destination country well before you commit to a job abroad.
I lost my passport in Cambodia, was finally medically evacuated from Cambodia via the US Embassy (I’m 5’9" and weighed 110 lbs, not good!) and was dropped off in L.A. in the middle of December with no money, no ID, and nowhere to go. I had just turned 40.
I spent the majority of my 40’s hitchhiking the USA. California to Florida and back twice, then up to Monatana, Idaho, back down through Nevada and Utah twice, then AZ back to FL and finally started hanging out near the places I liked. Eventually that became Houston in the winter and Denver CO or Bozeman MT for summer. I got into house-sitting, I don’t hitchhike anymore. I have clients primarily in Denver and Houston and friends all over.
Now I’m 52. Recently diagnosed with spinal stenosis, CES, PTSD and other health issues. It went by fast, although I would have said life moved at a snail’s pace when I was a teenager.
You will have to find the motivation to survive whether there’s music or not, that’s a fact. Life does not come guaranteed with good tunes, although we’ll both probably agree it should. Some people tell me I lived the wrong life. Others tell me it’s interesting. And some of the drivers that picked me up while hitchhiking – have told me it was beautiful.
Some rich people are bad. Some are good. Some poor people suck. Others are not. Take everyone at face value. Never lump them into groups. Never burn anyone, and never burn yourself. Watch your back. Hope my little rant helps. You have to find you. You have to decide where you’ll go. You have to choose what is important, and what isn’t.
And listen to this song regularly by Baz Luhrmann – “Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now”
I think your life was interesting. It is also my dream to go abroad anywhere, just out of where I have lived my life upto now. Having Freedom is the most valuable thing to me to just do whatever you want ig
It really is. But it also costs a lot.
I really wish I had the “ultimate algorithm” for everyone to find happiness. Not even joking. In my 52 years on this rock we call Earth, I still haven’t found my own “ultimate algorithm”. The rules change. The situation changes. People… Change.
My life never involved the white picket fence, nice house, beautiful wife, or kids. And the shit part is, when I was young – I thought that was the ultimate weighing scale of life. Get all that or die. No room for inbetween. You’re a failure if you don’t succeed, blah blah blah.
None of that is true.
I once hopped in a car with a guy from Phoenix who “had it all”. Nice house, his wife was trophy-level, he had 3 kids all going to college. Perfect life. Showed me photos of his house. Eight hours later he was yelling and screaming about how his two boys just smoke weed, his daughter only calls when she needs money, and his wife hasn’t laid him in six months. Perfect life, huh?
I’m not saying to pack your bags, I’m not saying go get a home loan. I’m saying your life will be a different trail. Maybe you get married, maybe you don’t. Maybe you end up rich, maybe you don’t. And I really HATE to coin a phrase, but it really is about the journey.
Prepare for that as best you can. If you’re in school, finish it. If you have a job, save.
What you don’t realize is that you’re already on your own trail. You just haven’t realized it yet.
FYI my life is STILL interesting! I ain’t dead yet!!!
The only universal purpose of life is to reproduce. That’s true of all life.
When I try to think of my reason for living. It is just because I am alive.
I’m coming up on my 61st orbit around the sun. The reason for living is to live. There’s no such thing as a wasted life as long as it’s lived. Time will pass, you’ll grow old if you’re lucky, and then you’ll die. That will happen, no matter what else does, or doesn’t. Wherever you go, there you are, you can’t run away from yourself. You always take yourself with you. That can sound like a burden, but think of it the other way--you can’t lose yourself, either, take comfort in that. You’ll always be with you. You’re the only one who sees your entire life from start to finish, everyone else is just passing through. So, live your life for you, first.
You’re going to be okay.
Get. That. Guitar. Do whatever it legally takes. Buy used. It won’t solve all your problems, and you likely won’t make a career out of it, but it will help you greatly with much of what you are going through right now. I played an instrument when I was young, and stopped due to addiction. Now I am much older, and getting back into playing again. I wish I never put it down in the first place, but it feels amazing to play again.
But yeah, in general, life is a big chore. When I was younger, I avoided much of the “chore” stuff, and I have been reaping what I’ve sown ever since. I would have told my younger self, among other things, to think ahead, and to not put off hard work for tomorrow (advice I can still barely live by).
Tl;Dr fully honestly.
But as Autist life is a absolute chore. And lately health got worse so more chores.
People tell us all the time how we should feel but it’s different.
it’s all about the brain chemicals
Anyway if I tell this to my parents I guess they will just say I am ungrateful; that I should be glad I have a roof over my head.
Your life will naturally feel more chore full living with your parents because you feel like you have to take care of them, or at least make accommodations for them in some way. Source: i live wit’ my parents while studying.
Seeing your friends is supposed to not feel like a chore. If it does, reduce the amount you see them until it’s actually fun for you, pr change the frequency. You could forego talking to them on IG and instead be the mysterious friend who only sees them at parties, or hangs out with them at events like bowling, paintball, walking or drinking. It’s fine to not want to talk 24/7; in fact I agree that spending a lot of time on Instagram is detrimental.
When things do feel like a chore, you must seek ways to find them more fun or grow in tolerance of them. Examples:
- My parents and I watch TV with dinner. We talk sometimes instead. I suppose food is never not fun to me; however, sometimes I feel way too busy to stay for a while, so I ask to eat in my room and immediately return to studying (or just having fun)
- Going to uni in person takes like an extra hour out of the day for travel and disrupts work flow so I watch recording software my lectures and read the textbooks at home a lot.
- Washing up cannot be made more fun, so i just power through that one. I get to do with with 1 other person and talk to them sometimes so that is more fun.
- I got bored of walking for exercise so I took up running. When I couldn’t run/didn’t feel like it i would simply walk and write a bit
I think you might benefit from finding a solo hobby (or a few) which give you space to gather your thoughts. It seems to me that the problem is other people guiding what you do with your time/life. Adulthood is figuring out, by yourself, how to spend your time - it is the key difference between an adult and a child (kids even before public education was invented, would be told what to do by their parents or peers)
I am not taking care of my parents. We can not stand each other. My parents hate me and I hate them. However I live in the east, and they have the authority and I do not. And they wont let me move out because they live in a 24/7 news cycle where university students murder each other while drunk. I feel like banging a glass bottle on my head when someone talks about the topic so I leave it out until someone asks.
Oh okay. So you’re studying a bachelors degree and then you’re hopefully going to be able to move out when you get your graduate job?
Anything rewarding takes effort.
I suggest trying antidepressants. Obviously I can’t diagnose you from one post, but my impression is that your problem is primarily in your ability (or lack thereof) to enjoy your circumstances, not in your circumstances themselves. For what it’s worth, I’m an adult with a good job, few responsibilities, and enough money to buy anything I might reasonably want and I still need my bupropion - it’s just something about how my brain works, not anything in the external world.
