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Despite my best efforts to make any positive changes in my life, things have really not gone anywhere for quite awhile now. Sending out job applications every other week for the past couple years now has only ever resulted in a couple short interviews and still others that were cancelled. Its especially insulting when you see ads about how apparently the economy is getting better.
Possibly getting a loan and going to college isn't an option because it's not a safe bet and I'd rather not be in debt if I still can't find a job afterwards. Stuff like welfare or disability or whatever else doesn't sound too appealing either, because I don't feel I'm truly worse off and deserve to have others' hard earned money pay for me to sit on my *** all the time.
Can't seem to lose any more weight no matter how I change my diet or how much I exercise. In fact, it seems I'm only gaining more weight now despite the fact that I've been eating healthier and being more active. I just don't get what I'm doing wrong. Staying away from carbs and sugar like I've been doing all along shouldn't be having the opposite effect on me now.
Hardly speak to any friends anymore. Not that its really their fault or that I don't like them or anything. Just that I feel like I shouldn't be boring them to death considering absolutely nothing goes on in my life to talk about, and really can't relate to what goes on in theirs as a result.
So really I feel stuck and that there's nothing I can do about most of it. Doing what little I can is, in the long run, meaningless/futile/etc. Whatever happens next is up to fate, and since that doesn't really exist, I'm pretty much screwed. Seems like I've just been set up for failure, having been told that I should enjoy childhood and not worry about becoming an adult. Don't know what to do with myself anymore. Hobbies have turned to hollow distractions with the knowledge that I lack any sort of purpose or usefulness. Nothing is fun or feels good outside of shallow immediate gratification, nor rewarding or meaningful.
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About suffering they were never wrong,
The Old Masters: how well they understood
Its human position; how it takes place
While someone else is eating or opening a window or
just walking dully along...