Left behind by time
I'm 33. I act or show that i am independent or I'm mature. But inside i feel like i haven't really grew. Like I've been left behind by time and I'm still that boy stuck at just wanting to have fun or play at my computer. Until i realized that my cousins, friends, are starting their own families already. And im here. Laying in my bed. Lost. Playing games, eating and sleeping. Its become a routine. I know i should do something but im afraid. I dont have a job. My first job was at my family business coz i couldn't get or find a job for me. I gave up too soon because of the constant nag of my boss which was my own grandmother. I left. And now I'm 33. Spending the last of the money i saved before. Scared that i have to go out there again. Especially at my age, companies would prefer the younger ones. I feel that even the young ones know much more than me which i know is true. I'm not the smart kid at school. More like the happy go lucky type before. Now I'm 33, I panic at the sound of a doorbell when my sister has a delivery. I don't want to go out the door. Opening the door to the outside world feels really really heavy that i hide in my room. I feel that people will always have their eyes on me. Talk about me or judge me. Even at family occasions, my relatives gives me that look like I'm a reminder to them not to be like a failure like me. I know that it doesnt matter what others think but knowing that im like that doesnt help either. I'm just too afraid to do anything and move.. no matter what i do before, i feel like people will always be better than me. Left behind by people who is even younger than me. I feel useless. Feeling sorry for myself and angry that I'm like this. I want to change but the one support i have.. my mother.. died 2 years ago.. I'm a mama's boy i guess. No matter how hard things get, she would always say its okay and help me out. I got spoiled and took for granted everything. Thinking that she would always be there even if I'm old. I know i have to move at some point but i looked the other way. I didnt face it. I had someone to face it for me. Now its worse since she's gone. I know I'm pathetic. I don't know what to do or where to start. I feel empty. 33.. i keep telling myself before ill be someone at that age.. but now that im 33.. what's next.. I'm still at the starting point and i haven't done anything. Do i need to take meds or something? Is there a medicine that just blocks shyness or nervousness away. I want to be confident but there's just too many eyes staring at me when I'm outside. It scares me.. people scares me. I've been bullied when i was young. I thought ill get over it in time. But i didnt. I still know all their names. Its been more than 15 yrs. I didnt expect it would affect me so much. I wish i can go back to the past and change everything.
@JCV30
I know how you're youling. On a much smaller scale, but I know how you're feeling. I'm about to turn 21, my friends and relatives are all graduating college and moving on with their lives, meanwhile I'm here, lying in bed, no idea what to do with my life. I've tried a year of college and it's not for me, but if I don't get a degree, what else is there? My small town has nothing to offer, but I have a three year old brother who's very attached to me and I don't wanna leave him. I'm afraid I'll just spend the rest of my life in this house, doing nothing but read and watch tv shows. I don't know how to get rid of this mindset. I know I'm setting myself up to fail but I have no idea how to stop.
If you want something you have to go out there to get it and ofcourse take risk, i was once in your shoes as well, and it was so frustrating and it drained me mentally, but today i own my small business with a lot of hard work and sleepless night, don’t give up yet and hopefully you have the courage to do something and be positive a