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Sometimes I'm scared of getting old. I feel like my life is too short, and that I need to accomplish a bunch of stuff before I get too old! Is it normal?
I agree. There is only one life and in the millieana of time we are like little sprite bubbles of conciousness. There and not there. Creating some purpose and living true to yourself gives a type of meaning while here. Be careful of your choices. The best life is a combination of compassion for self and compassion for others and an inate knowledge of mortality - its like if you understand this - why on earth would a person wish to create suffering for self and others. I tend to make big life choices out of the depths of some negative emotion or another and suffer the consequences for a long time afterwards. My advice, never make a big decision when in the valley of a shadow
I feel like this everyday. My mom and my shrink say I am not focused enough to live on my own yet because of the way I act, which is like a child but mature in the most necessary situations. I had a conversation about sex and every time it comes to that I start to feel disgusted because I want things to be the way they used to when I was younger, not worrying about sex and feeling embarrassed around my peers because I am a virgin. I tell them I am shy around girls, which is true, but the real reason is because i went through puberty and this whole sex thing kind of ruins everything about trying to have fun. I watch cartoons and animated films because it gives me joy the most. I get depressed from time to time whenever i have to deal with reality but at the same time I don't like to feel babied. I just want my life back and I understand exactly what you are going through.
same here. I hope i die when i can't take care of my self anymore, don't want others to do it for me.
I used to be scared of it too when I was a kid... But i was reassured by my dad that if I had Jesus, then when I died I would have eternal life in heaven. I still am scared, but I just remember what dad told me.
Btw, I am not trying to turn this into a religous argument.
It all depends on how you age? I'm 32 and look as young as I did when I was 18 and still getting younger girls too....
I almost died a few years ago and I wasn't even 30 yet - so yes I know where you're coming from. Ever since my recovery, I have begun doing things I always wanted to do, but never got around to. I started with small ones like learning how to bake a cake and moved on to bigger ones like trying a new career. I can't say they all turned out okay, but at least I can say I tried them. I hope you get the chance to try something new for yourself today.
mark twain said "20 years from now, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the things that you did do" or something like that. i really don't want to look back and say, i wish i did this or did that. there's a lot of things i want to do, but there are lots i have done, so i am happy. just don't live with regret.
same me but just keep on thiking that theres an afterlife and if there is hooray
I gues you are the kind of guy/girl that is doing not much and thinking alot of what to do in life. Don't worry about life just enjoy from the moments you expierence now, dont fear something you die from in 50 years! You must be able to say in 50 years 'yes i had a good life, i enjoyed it!'
I feel kinda the same way. I want to do heaps of things, excessive and little NOW but time is the only thing in the way and it stops for no one so though i am sitting here writing this to you, i wish i were doing more and having the time of my life because age is a fact of life, i wish we all age gracefully and life prosperous and long lives. YOUR NEVER TO OLD TO HAVE FUN.
So now that's two of us that got the tee shirt, I know the feeling, we start out with so many hopes in life but the living gets in the way. The only way to get through it is to live in the present. We have just had our business go bust, our mortgage hasn't been paid in four months, & I'm 62. Anyone beat that for a sob story? But it's not, we have been together for 40 years, still in love with life & each other. We're looking at our situation as another part of the adventure.
As for being afraid of getting old, can I just say about actually getting old, 'IT SURE BEATS THE ALTERNATIVE'
Kind of existential. So make the best of what time (who knows how much) you have. Trite but true.
Yes. There are many things in my life that I missed out on, and have many regrets that I can never have the chance to try them. I missed out on what I consider my life's work, due to poor decisions. I'm trying to work with the time I have left to me to be content, if not happy.