I’m not who I was supposed to be.

rob.picke

I’m not who I was supposed to be.

My only aspiration when I was younger was to play professional sport. I was on the way, was being paid to play, was getting scouted for a major team and then I got seriously injured. I couldn’t walk for 6 months and couldn’t even start to train again for 18 months. When I went back to playing I had nothing left. I had lost all of the passion, the desire. I was scared and broken.I gave up 2 years later, utterly beaten and needing more surgery for the same problem. In the meantime I got a good job, bought a house and have a great girlfriend - what more could you want, right? But I’m so deeply unhappy with my life because I fell into everything I do now, with no meaning, no rhyme and no reason. I don’t know how to bring it up, or even if I can bring it up with my family, friends, partner…What do I do? I can’t even think of a way to bring it up. It’s such a self-pitying sob story I’ve deleted all of this a couple of times. What the hell do I do? It is destroying me. I’m 25 years old with everything else falling into place in my life…but that’s the problem. I hate my life.

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littlenick 159 #
An Undisclosed Location | 4 months ago (2 minutes after post)

You’re full of regrets for stuff you had no control over. Can you at least try to move on?

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An Unknown Location | 4 months ago (17 minutes after post)

:(
Dude, I hear ya. Life is full of disappointments like that. If only life were like a movie, where you have that magical turnaround and montage scene and you accomplish your dream, all the while keeping your family, friends and partner, and have a happy ending where you’re living your dream.
Hm. I unfortunately don’t have an answer for you. You could try to pursue your dream again, I mean you are still young. Unless of course after all the surgery you’ve had and the years you haven’t played have rendered you not as efficiant as you used to be. Why not do something sports related?
Why not become a coach of that sport, or something else related to it? If you can’t be a professional sports player, surround yourself with it anyway. That’s all I can think of for now.

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An Unknown Location | 4 months ago (1 hour, 22 minutes after post)

Try to find a new passion. There has to be osmething else that yo enjoy doing, now is thew time to go and find it. Just try anything that interests you until you find something you really love doing.

“No matter how bad things are at any one moment, no moment lasts. good or bad, time moves on because it has to. And so do you.”

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An Unknown Location | 4 months ago (5 hours, 57 minutes after post)

I’m thinking that it would be very rewarding to you to coach younger kids in sports so you can remember a time it was not about playing to get drafted but playing to have fun and learn to play better. Your life sounds pretty sweet.

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