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I have exhausted my passion.

I am 22 years old. I live at home with my mom who I love but she drives me crazy sometimes, especially lately since I have lived in my own place for the past year. I have been almost completely out of energy for the past two months. My passion is (was) skateboarding. I have taken it to the point where I have had two sponsors in my life (no longer sponsored), but due to injury and my enrollment in grad school I will never be able to continue competitively.

More importantly though, I am just burnt out from it. I don't want to do it anymore, but it was the only thing I felt like I was decent at. The problem with skateboarding is that if you aren't on fire for it, it is very easy to get hurt. I ended up using skateboarding as a crutch that hindered my social skills and self-esteem, which has been based completely on how I perform as a skateboarder. Now that I no longer feel the passion to skateboard, I feel little to no enthusiasm about life and have little confidence.

My dating life is downright sad. My parents harp on me for it, especially my dad. I've had only two "sympathy" dates that went horrible because neither girl actually liked me. I have tried amiugly before as an assessment but I think the people are too nice there. In reality I believe I am ugly. My only friend in town friendzoned me years ago and it is a pain hanging out with her because of how emasculated I feel around her.

The past few days really did it in for me. I watched a couple of let's play videos on youtube and wanted to start my own LP channel (I felt I could be very passionate about it, seeing how fun it could be), only to find out I don't have the equipment and it's too expensive, plus my mom is incredibly nosy and I would rather do the LPs in privacy. I have no other friends to hang out with, the friends out of town aren't answering my calls, and as a result I sat in a corner of my house and cried. Not even a full blown out bawl, since I don't have any energy. Just a very sad whimper. Because I didn't cry it all out my eyes hurt. What a weekend.

EDIT: TL;DR: No longer passionate about my passion. Dating life sucks/always has. Almost found another passion.

Posted Jun 24, 2012, 2:46 AM UTC · edited

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