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i don’t know what to do with my life really.

i am so empty. i waste my time. all the time. i feel like i am loosing interest in everyone and everything. i can never do anything right. i feel like i’m incapable of being loved. on the other hand i feel selfish because i know am loved and i’m just complaining. i really don’t know what to do. i’ve become such a cold and bitter person. i have to make such a strong effort to even try smiling. i just…can’t. i have no motivation to even try to get out of this because its just getting worse and worse. i really don’t know what to do. i feel so alone.

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erick4 offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (15 minutes after post)

You need to drink dreppression pills. but first talk to a doctor about it. It happend to me and am doing good now.

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lifeisabeach offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 Add Friend #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (17 minutes after post)

i’m not mentally depressed though. i just keep shutting myself in from everyone.

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HeIsDifferen offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 Add Friend #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (37 minutes after post)

I felt like you too. It’s difficult
and empty, and weak, and hopeless,
because nothing in this world can
truly give you peace except Jesus.
If you invite Jesus in your life;
through prayer, attending a bible based
loving healthy church, and seek Him
in everything especially challenges,
He can help build you up.
Jesus can help you find peace.
Don’t you deserve to feel loved,
and accepted just as you are?
Don’t you deserve to build up
your character through challenges,
and receive all the blessings that
Jesus has already given to you?
All you have to do to receive His peace,
is seek Jesus. He advises not to worry,
or to be anxious. He will take care of that,
give all these negative things up to Him,
and ask for Hope, faith, forgiveness.
He will give it to you.
Be persistent and patient. No matter what happens,
He is walking with you
through this hardship now, if you accept
Him as your hero (savior). He loves you
sooooo much. The only way we can know that
is to try and know Him. Jesus is good. Even
though we make mistakes, He loves us.
And God has a plan for you. I thank Him
now, because I know He will bless you
and give you the strength to get out of
what you are feeling now. Be patient.
Your blessing will come in His time, not
ours. It is after we have grown from the experience,
when we realize a little bit about how
He has blessed you. Because that growth, that
character strength is what Our Father wants for
you. Jesus can give you the peace and purpose you seek.

lifeisabeach offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 Add Friend #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (42 minutes after post)

thank you so much. that was truly beautiful. i know i need a savior. everyone does. and he is everyones savior. its so hard with lack of interest. i know he needs to change my heart. its so hard. i just hold unto things and i just can’t forgive.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (1 hour, 51 minutes after post)

Hi there, sometimes, i complain. A lot. But just like you i also think i should complain less and start doing some things that would be productive to me and the people around me who support me through thick and thin. Sad moments come in the middle of happy events and i say that is completely normal.

We need to be less tough on ourselves and start less analyzing things. It is the beauty of small things that happiness is found. :)

I wish you well and i wish you more blessings. :)

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (20 hours, 44 minutes after post)

I feel for you because i am going through the same thing. i am an orphan. i have no friends and im unlikeable. i too feel very alone in this world. i have a one year old son. his dad took him away from me, we are going through a custody battle. unfortunately i cant afford the exorbiant attorney fees. i feel like im slowly dying….pray for me.

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lifeisabeach offline Verified User (1 year, 7 months) Long Term User Shouts: 0 Add Friend #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 7 months ago (20 hours, 48 minutes after post)

I will pray for you. I belive that God has a plan for you and that it will pass. After that post last night and how the responses came it changed me a little. I’m still feeling the same but I’m trying to give myself a different perspective.

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An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 6 months ago (3 weeks, 4 days after post)

I used to have a friend like you,feeling so left out and worthless but guess what, she woke up one day and realized that if u keep dwelling on the past u will not see what the future holds.Trust me her future was a bright one, she started being motivated to doing things she would have never done and today she is a changed person. I think u should move on and turn to a new page in life, start over and im sure u will see a remarkable change in your life and the people around you as well.God bless and hope u do change ur life around.

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nunucalvi offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 4 months ago (3 months after post)

feel the same as you…only been feelin like this for the last 6 yrs… but i’m still stumblin along

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An Unknown Location | 1 year, 2 months ago (5 months after post)

I know how you feel everyday is a struggle for me.the simplest of tasks.it’s destroying my relationship and I’m fully aware of it yet completly powerless…imso sorry u feel this way as well

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An Unknown Location | 9 months, 1 week ago (10 months, 2 weeks after post)

I feel the same way. It sucks so bad.

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An Unknown Location | 8 months, 2 weeks ago (11 months, 1 week after post)

Feeling like you are just lost in the world and don’t know what to do with life or your self. I am feeling the same way. I have just turned 41 years old and I was a single mother of 4 children. Now all my children are grown and gone with children of their own and I am feeling like I have nothing in my life that is worth me even being. I don’t know what to do or how to even start over. I need to find out what I should be doing with my self or with my life, love and passion. My passion has been lost and I am feeling like I am lost in space. I have been tryihng to find someone to talk with about a lot of the things that I am feeling but it seems like veryone is out for them selves and I am alone. I try to make amends with my family but they just seem to be off into thier own world and I have nothing to really hold on to. I have been asking the question of what is life and why is it lately and I am still just as lost as a newborn child. I can say that reading the post from this question has given me a little sight of light but there is still a lot of darkness around me and I am not sure what it’s going to take to bring the light out so that it’s shines brighter than the dark. I am so tired of living in the dark any more that I am just ready to call it. I know that this is wrong and I have been trying to pray about what I have been feeling. I know that God has got to be working within me because I should have been checked out a long time ago and I just can’t find my way there so I know that God still have more for me to do. I just feel like I don’t know what to do with my self until God is ready for me. I have tried making friends but they one way or another always betray me and maybe I am looking in the wrong places for human friendship, but I still have to try. I know that there are some good people out there, I know I have to go through all the bad before the good comes to me. That is what builds charcter and make us the people that we eventualy turn out to be. I am just trying to make the rest of my life what ever it is that God want me to be.

Still searching for the answer.

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msj offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 8 months, 2 weeks ago (11 months, 1 week after post)

Read the Book A new Earth by Eckart Tolle. It really can give you some perspective on your situations from a healthier mind set. Believe

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An Unknown Location | 7 months ago (1 year after post)

Take it easy. God has a plan.

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An Unknown Location | 6 months, 4 weeks ago (1 year after post)

be a muslim and you will see the different also see the story of cat stiven

and god will gaid you P.S

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An Unknown Location | 6 months, 2 weeks ago (1 year, 1 month after post)

I would like to thank all who gave me a response. I am learning to take one day at a time and start all over. I know the journey is never easy but I will find my way to make it a lot more pleasent. I know God has a plan for me and I know that I am on his path that he is guiding me on. Thank you very much.

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burzre offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 5 months ago (1 year, 2 months after post)

i feel the same way now. i graduated a year ago, took a long time to figure out what i want to do with my life. i am the average “achiever” in school. with all the pressures of having a good high paying job i took a training in a “high paying” field that i don’t exactly know i want to be in. now i go to training everyday, with this cloud hanging over my head. i want to quit. but then, i still don’t know what i want to do if ever i do get the guts to quit. now all my energy goes into not dwelling on this feeling being directionless. i am trying hard not to think that with all my efforts in the past, nothing good came off of it. i am still clueless of what i want to do with my life. i also feel with all the people i have in my life, i am still isolated. i am hoping things would change in the future. in the mean time i am fighting to be positive.

i hope knowing that you are not alone in this helps. probably it is with our own efforts that we can turn things around. we must think that things are in a certain extent in our control and that if we want to find our purpose in life we can. and just like all other things we are able to do in the past, we can do this too.

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An Unknown Location | 4 months, 3 weeks ago (1 year, 2 months after post)

It seems like there are so many questions in life to answer and there is no way to answer them. I have been praying more and trying to change things in my life so that I can keep my mind occupied. I notice that when I am just sitting around I am either eatting and being depressed or doing something I don’t have any business doing and being depressed. Either way none of it is good. I have started doing more charity work and putting more hours into my school work. It helps keep my mind from wondering and thinking about stupid stuff that I know that I can not change. The serinity prayer has helped me alot as well. I try to say it every morning before I leave the house but if I miss it that morning some how some way I try to remember some parts of it some time during my day and it helps me to calm down and concentrate on what I am doing at the moment.

Some times I think that all I am doing is whinning and I hate whinning. So I tell God that I don’t know what adventure he has me on for that day but I am going to hold on tight to his hand really tight and ask him not to take me too fast and keep me close to his love and protection.

Life has it’s good days and it’s bad days. I always tell my kids if life gives you lemons, put your own sugar in it and make it your type of sweet. Keep smiling and push through it for your own satisfaction. Never mind what other people got to say because when your day come, God will only be asking you about what you have done.

I must say I have grown since my last post. I am glad that there are others out there to share with and who can share back with me. I would like to thank you all for your encouragement and advise. Keep your head up and God in your heart, it might not get any easier but at least you know it won’t hurt forever.

LIVE, LAUGH, AND LOVE…… FOREVER!!!!!!!!!

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An Unknown Location | 4 months, 1 week ago (1 year, 3 months after post)

I fell suffering a lot now, My father is no more
I suffered TB 2 times . I love God.

I don’t know why I suffered a lot of thing in my life.
Now , my mum has cancer . I think My mind is so dirty that i can’t see purity in my life. Frankly speaking my mind is full of sexy things. how can I do…….??

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An Unknown Location | 4 months, 1 week ago (1 year, 3 months after post)

testing

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An Unknown Location | 2 months, 1 week ago (1 year, 5 months after post)

someone i really really loved left me. that little *****. maybe that is what u r feeling

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An Unknown Location | 2 months ago (1 year, 5 months after post)

Well.. I cant actually help anyone here, but i hope that the person who helps someone, also is able to help me.
7 years ago, i realised my life sucks.
Friends left me and started bullying me, which they still do.
Never had a girlfriend, cause hey! im the ugly little f****t that gets beaten up three times a week, who would love me?.
I never met my parents, cuz my mom died in a motorcycle accident, and my father… well. who gives a s**t.
i got no motivation to move on.

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taylorrl2 offline Verified User (8 months, 2 weeks) Long Term User Shouts: 0 Add Friend #
An Unknown Location | 2 months ago (1 year, 5 months after post)

Flanderz,
Life is soooooo much better than that. I was always thinking about everyone except for my self. I begain to pray for courage, strength and wisdom. God begain to heal my heart and nurish my soul. I have begain a new life and everyday gets a little easier. I always remember that every day is not promised to anyone or anything, but if you take just one moment at a time and enjoy your surroundings for what they are, (BEAUTIFUL). You will start to see sunshine even on rainny days. Give it to God in grace and do what he requires of you, he will do what you can’t. I promise that. And I am not affraid to make that promise because I know that God is the only true perfection that exist. Go ahead, I dare you to trust in him.

God Bless you, and show him your faith. He will give you so much more in return.

kiris offline Unverified User #
An Unknown Location | 1 month, 3 weeks ago (1 year, 6 months after post)

Take easy

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An Unknown Location | 1 month, 2 weeks ago (1 year, 6 months after post)

HeIsDifferen wrote:
I felt like you too. It’s difficult
and empty, and weak, and hopeless,
because nothing in this world can
truly give you peace except Jesus.
If you invite Jesus in your life;
through prayer, attending a bible based
loving healthy church, and seek Him
in everything especially challenges,
He can help build you up.
Jesus can help you find peace.
Don’t you deserve to feel loved,
and accepted just as you are?
Don’t you deserve to build up
your character through challenges,
and receive all the blessings that
Jesus has already given to you?
All you have to do to receive His peace,
is seek Jesus. He advises not to worry,
or to be anxious. He will take care of that,
give all these negative things up to Him,
and ask for Hope, faith, forgiveness.
He will give it to you.
Be persistent and patient. No matter what happens,
He is walking with you
through this hardship now, if you accept
Him as your hero (savior). He loves you
sooooo much. The only way we can know that
is to try and know Him. Jesus is good. Even
though we make mistakes, He loves us.
And God has a plan for you. I thank Him
now, because I know He will bless you
and give you the strength to get out of
what you are feeling now. Be patient.
Your blessing will come in His time, not
ours. It is after we have grown from the experience,
when we realize a little bit about how
He has blessed you. Because that growth, that
character strength is what Our Father wants for
you. Jesus can give you the peace and purpose you seek.

I hate it when people use Jesus as the answer. It’s an empty answer for feelings of emptiness…not the way to go. By the way, the answer ‘Jesus’ can be replaced by anything. A job, music, a certain friend, a few books, etc, etc. I was going through a horribly tough time in my life. I spent 4 years in an area that was riddled with crime. I was there for the Navy. I ended up having my car broken into twice and once stolen. Then came time for deployment, which should have lasted only 6 months but clocked at 9 1/2 months…then we went out again for 4 months. And in that time frame, my wife (now ex) became pregnant and had a child without me even knowing. Now the father is begging me to take care of the daughter…which I am along with the son that I originally had. Along with this, my ex-wife was able to spend all the money I didn’t spend during deployment…a whopping $21,000…and we were still in $47,000 in debt plus a house payment. I eventually asked to talk to the chaplain. You know what he said…exactly what you did. Jesus. I came close to punching him in the face but walked out instead. But now, I’m out of the military, happily divorced with two children to take care of (who are doing awesome in school and they behave so well), and living in Ft. Lauderdale working for a construction company banking $90,000 a year. Mind you I had to split the debt, but I didn’t mind. I was close to killing the *****.

Moral of the story: Get off your *** and do something. Things happen because people will themselves out of bed and do it…amazing huh? So…there we go. Advice from a Vice.

P.S. God and Jesus are just two kids with an ant farm. They do nothing but shake the case and tap the glass. I went to church for 18 years before realizing this.

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An Unknown Location | 1 month, 2 weeks ago (1 year, 6 months after post)

God is love…We have to keep on believing that…I definetely feel the same way, lonely, hopeless, emotionless, I have no direction on my life, no motivation etc.. I could go on and on…I am a married stay at home mom of 2. I am in my late 20’s and I haven’t started anything of my own yet and I keep wondering when my time is gonna come and when it does am I gonna be able to grab it and know what to do. I am at the point of my life where I have no more tears to shed. I am now trusting the Lord for my future. Wherever he wants me to go I will go and whatever he wants me to do I wll do. in the midst of it all I am thankful for my beautiful family. My kids are the best thing that ever happened to me and most of all the best part of me.

Tylorrl2 41 single mom of 4: try traveling it always helps… U also need to reinvent yourself. Try new things until u find what your new interests are. Its always best to fix ourselves before we try to get into any kind of relationshipo. Hope this helps.

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flanderz.133 offline Verified User (2 months) Shouts: 0 Add Friend #
An Unknown Location | 1 month, 2 weeks ago (1 year, 6 months after post)

incline got a point…
God, or Jesus, could mean anything. depends on what u believe in.. and me, im an agnostic… so… these answers doesnt help too much, except the 1 from incline.

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An Unknown Location | 1 month, 2 weeks ago (1 year, 6 months after post)

I feel exactly the same way, I keep shutting myself to anyone who tries to know what’s happening with me … the big problem is I’m good for nothing and I don’t know what I like to do I really don’t like to do a single thing in the entire universe … I feel always bad and I keep eating so I’ll could feel right, but just last too little and again I feel like crap … I’m like a drug addict but with no drugs …no nothing just emptiness … my girlfriend is doubting she doesn’t know if she loves me I feel like crap and the only good thing in my life may be gone by now … how will I get money in my life if I don’t like to do anything… I don’t know that’s the problem …

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