I feel like I can’t push myself to put effort into anything. What can I do?
I think part of it is because, I’ve failed in so so many things that I’ve tried to do throughout my life, that trying just feels pointless. Like I’m just setting myself up to be disappointed for no reason. I think failing to land a career after graduating from college is what hurt me the most. After years of work, I thought at least I’d get something from it, but here I am with a college degree working minimum wage fast food kitchen jobs. I want to keep trying, to accomplish things in life. But there’s this voice in my head telling me that it’s pointless to try anything, because I’ll just fail again just like I always have. And the thing that makes it difficult most of all is the fact that I have no argument against that voice. I’ve always failed, so why wouldn’t I just keep failing like I always have? I have no way of proving it wrong.
I don’t know what to do. I don’t want to be stuck in shitty low paying jobs for the rest of my life, stuck living with my parents in the same small town I grew up in. I feel so pathetic.
Posted Jun 13, 2025, 10:45 PM UTC