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You need to get off your *** and do something about it! I understand you feel dead but you need to wake yourself up and start living! Look for a job, and if you don’t find one keep looking. You will find something but you need to put yourself out there! You need to find a reason to live, you can’t just keep ‘going through’ life, you need to grab it by the neck and make it into what you want! You can live!

I think you should get a hobby or something that will keep you focused and busy.
You say you’ve given up on your dreams many times, maybe try to get into it one last time.
Tell yourself that this is your last chance, you give up and you deal with the consequenses.
Really try to stick to it, I know it will be hard but it will give you something to think about so you don’t concentrate as much on other things.

Perhaps you’re overreaching. It is demoralizing to set a lofty goal and try to reach it. Takes too long. We live in a short attention span world. We don’t have time to wait for years for dreams to come true. And we get burned out as a result of failed expectations. My suggestion is for you to sit down and think about what you’d like to do and just do it. Don’t do it because you’re going to be rich or famous or comfortable. Do it because it is what you feel like doing. But do something every day. Don’t lounge on the couch. Enjoy the process of being active. Forget results. Forget expectations. If you do that and stop thinking about your happiness, sometimes you look up and realize you are happy. Also, think about others. The adage that ‘it is better to give than receive’ is often true. When we help others we think about them. And when we think about something or someone besides ourselves, we can often begin to relax and enjoy our own lives.