Absolutely. I feel this too, OP. And my response is exactly the same as yours, kingofCF - just less concise haha.
But it's true; you think "Once I achieve X, I'll be happy and everything will be perfect" and it just never delivers the happiness you thought it would. You're still exactly the same person you were before, so it's a let down.
Maybe you feel even worse than before because you think, "shit, if this didn't make me happy..then how am I ever going to be happy?!"
Well maybe that's just me, anyway.
Thanks for the replies both of you. For me its more more like, once I get X then I'll have Y and Y is what's missing in my life. Be it friends, respect, freedom etc. Then after I do X either I don't get Y or Y doesn't really matter as much as thought it would.
The other thing too that gets me I think is that after the goal is achieved and the hard battle won, I'm back to my depressingly routine and boring life. I don't have anything pushing my or motivating me, and I just feel empty, incomplete, and like my soul has been crushed. I remember very well when I transfered schools being a 20 yr old man and feeling so depressed I had to cry which made me feel even more pathetic.
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Absolutely. I feel this too, OP. And my response is exactly the same as yours, kingofCF - just less concise haha.
But it's true; you think "Once I achieve X, I'll be happy and everything will be perfect" and it just never delivers the happiness you thought it would. You're still exactly the same person you were before, so it's a let down.
Maybe you feel even worse than before because you think, "shit, if this didn't make me happy..then how am I ever going to be happy?!"
Well maybe that's just me, anyway.
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Thanks for the replies both of you. For me its more more like, once I get X then I'll have Y and Y is what's missing in my life. Be it friends, respect, freedom etc. Then after I do X either I don't get Y or Y doesn't really matter as much as thought it would.
The other thing too that gets me I think is that after the goal is achieved and the hard battle won, I'm back to my depressingly routine and boring life. I don't have anything pushing my or motivating me, and I just feel empty, incomplete, and like my soul has been crushed. I remember very well when I transfered schools being a 20 yr old man and feeling so depressed I had to cry which made me feel even more pathetic.