I'm 21 and am feeling that my life isn't going to achieve much which i'm struggling to come to terms with. I'm currently back at University but for whatever reason I do not feel motivated at all to study with my major exams coming up. Before I changed degrees and went back to university I was working in retail for the past two years. I didn't mind my job but did not feel fulfilled in stacking shelves and serving customers for the rest of my life. I don't want to get to my 30s and realised i've wasted my 20s doing things that I regret but I have no idea what I want to do in life. Does anyone have any similar life experience on this that may be able to help me with how they got through this and say how they are feeling now?
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I guess it's just hard not knowing anyone else has gone through this where all the people I know have a meaning in life, of knowing what they want to do and how they are going to complete it by staying motivated.
many people reading your post but not posting will relate to yiu. When I was 21 I was changing my uni course every year and dropping out of uni and having a break.
I felt so lost and envied everyone else,
I did finish my course eventually but I was very unsettled, In my 40 s I worked out what I wanted and I opened a book shop.
is there something you like doing, not what others think but what you really enjoy.
quirky .
