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Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Hi all.

I have made a new thread here. I need to do this to make it feel real and important or else it'll just be another comment I make on an already existing thread. There are many areas in my life where I feel like giving up. I don't really care how irrational it may sound. I don't care if it's silly. It's just how it is for me at the moment.

I've never been as good as what I am now (on paper) and I put that down to the supportive environment here on the forums.


But I am struggling again.

There are many things on my mind and in my life that are causing me to rethink a lot of what I thought I knew about family and friends. I need to review some things again.

I am also getting lazy around my physical health and diet. I eat a lot more rubbish and I've put on some weight (in the bad way). I used to be quite skinny but then I went to the gym and sorted that out. But lately I have had 0 motivation for exercise because I find it so boring. It's just really boring. I have no enjoyment in it anymore. I think I never really did, but I did it just to be healthy. Now I just don't care. I don't see any utility in doing it anymore.

I feel like giving up on dating. There are just too many fake people in the world and I am exhausted by it. I am also thinking that my lack of relationship in early 20s and late teens is a turn off for many girls my age. I'm trying to see the benefits in my situation but I don't believe there are any.

My sister's health is progressively getting worse. So is her social health. She is having fights with her friends. Mum babies her about a lot. It's not helping. Dad has given up I think. And he is also likely doing "things" behind my mum's back and she is turning a blind eye to it. I have no input on any of that so I simply have to sit by and watch it go down.

I hate my job but getting money is important. I had this conversation with my parents the other day. They seem to have the belief that I can get into something I want to do. I don't. I am trying to find the light and the way forward with that but I don't know how they can see it. I have a desire to go into journalism/writing. But that environment is so political and I don't think I'm able to "pick a side". My internship taught me how I can do it. But it's just such an effort. I don't know if I have the stamina to get there.

I think that's all I can think of for now. I am sitting here on my pc playing a videogame and waiting for food to arrive. I am worried I will just get worse if nothing is done. But that urgency seems small compared to anything else I can do.

In a nutshell - I am not well.

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

hi @MDT

sounds like a tough one mate, sometimes when we are on edge or upset we snap at people, it is a normal reaction. sounds like no damage was done, maybe just let it go.

your columbian friend may have been upset because in columbia a lot of people are out of work and very poor. i know i said the same to a person i know from south america an she said i would never understand what it is like there.

try to take some time out tonight and make it some you time, watch a movie or put on some music and try to rest your mind.

i know life can suck sometimes, but as they say it can't rain forever.

Jacques

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@MDT hey Hamza, sounds everything a bit tense. May be try to distract. Play computer game, read a funny story, go for a walk. It will come good again

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"Working from home" means working at home @TAB

Not a free ride. I think my colleague was a bit too sensitive about it. I mean she said my other colleague was "savage". There is nothing savage about it. It's just stupidity. To react like that to something about an email being placed in a bad folder.

It's such a testing time i get it. But like seriously... these people...

My Colombian friend is really immature.

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Like others have said @MDT we can never know what is going through someone else's head at any given point. Unfortunately in any workplace - as in life - there are going to be people you do not relate to or do not particularly like but it is a job and all you need to concentrate on is your work. I agree with @TAB - taking a snipe at you colleague about training would possibly make a difficult situation worse - maybe best to hold that thought in your head and not voice it for now. It certainly does not seem like the most conducive place for happiness so that makes the time you do have to yourself this evening even more important for self-care. Part of that is trying to put today's events out of your mind - sit with your anger/frustration for a while then put it aside - dwelling on it will not change their actions nor help you tonight. It is annoying but tomorrow is another day - maybe their attitudes will have changed.

As for your friend - again we fo not know what is going through her mind or what she is dealing with - it may have been as simple as she was also not having a good day and couldn't cope with anymore negativity. Often when we are having a bad day ourselves someone elses issues are too much to handle - it may not be that she doesn't care just that it was bad timing for whatever she is dealing with also.

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Re: Lacking direction, unsure of what I need to do and generally just fed up.......

Sorry @MDT

@I haven't been around for you. I've had a few things going on.
Sending you lots of hugs my friend 🤗❤️

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Hey @Jacques
Good to see you mate.

Yeah letting it go. It's just a series of stupid things like that which can get to me when it happens consistently..
I haven't been there for long. And I've been .oved about a lot. I can't be expected to know everything surely. It annoyed me mostly because last Monday her and the other person who isn't there today were acting really odd. I'm so over their BS...

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Yep definitely @Meowmy

On that now

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A snipe @TAB @Zoe7
What snipe ?
I meant that I would actually help her. Because I don't think my other colleague actually did....

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Why is it that I am never allowed to be going through something.... I have to be cautious of others.... yet I'm the one who cops it from people.....

Not saying anyone here is accusing of me it of course. But i mean in real life. In non forum land.

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That's okay @BlueBay

I understand. Take care friend 🙂
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