I'm going to tell you things about my life and I want you to give me constructive criticism (as I work well from it) and tell me if you honestly think I am a loser, tell me what you honestly think about my life and please tell me what changes you would make if you were me.
I desperately need a life overhaul.
ok so the brutal truth is:
I'm 33
I'm fat
I'm still a virgin (thats right!)
I've never even been on a date
In the house I'm pretty loud and giggly
outside the house I'm quiet and insecure
i'm introverted and rarely go out
don't really know many people, don't have many social contacts
oh I'm a female and a muslim
Health:
thankfully no physical health issues and mentally I did have depression but was smart enough to get help for it. after many years with a mental health team i've overcome many obstacles. I still have anxiety but its not as bad as it used to be. i make the effort to leave the house more but still not at that stage where i want to be. i desperately want to be married but my social anxiety scares me about the prospect of meeting the extended family i am going to have
Education and career:
again blessed to have somehow been able to graduate from university. i consider myself to be pretty smart, well spoken and well written as well as street smart. only problem is due to my issues i've never been able to keep down a job or carve a career out for myself (even though this was one of my biggest life goals, to have been a proper career woman) i'm currently unemployed and my experiences are crap, i've only ever done volunteer work here and there, had my last actual paying job about four years ago!
but the determination has never left me. even at this age with lack of experience i still think i've got it in me to do great things and achieve a lot! the only problem is... i'm literally like a baby, i have to learn how to walk all over again because i honestly have forgotten who i wanted to be, what i wanted to be and how to start again
Relationships:
so as I've said I haven't been on a date or been sexual with anyone. its not that i don't have offers, despite my weight i've been told i'm pretty/nice looking/attractive and this resonates because i do get hit on/chatted up a lot. i usually get asked out by older men and i have no problem with this. the only reason why i've never accepted a date is simply due to my anxiety, i know that a date will inevitably lead to a relationship or sex and due to not being comfortable in my skin i always shy away from saying yes. even though i desperately want to
i'm not cocky but when it comes to marriage i know that i won't exactly be shy of offers mainly due to the fact that i'm the least fussy or shallow person on the planet. aside from not wanting to marry a guy who has kids or marry someone who wants to live abroad, i have no other real requirements. don't care at all if he is short, fat, not socially attractive, not rich, not successful (but i would like him to be in employment) and not perfect because i'm just happy to be with a man who wants me for me. and even stuff like anger issues, having his own issues don't affect me much because i have 33 years of experience in living with those types of people unfortunately, if there was an award for being tolerant and patient i'd win every year.
for the people who don't mind reading about my religious woes, read the next part...
Religion and culture:
I'm muslim and do value my religion and would never call myself an atheist but i feel like i'm currently living like one, mainly because i haven't prayed at all. i don't drink or do drugs or eat pork or gamble but i'm not praying or fasting or learning about my religion at all. whilst i am not eating haram i don't see it as that much of a big deal and have been tempted to just order whatever when i'm in a restaurant. i'm basically not militant when it comes to the subject of halal and haram.
as for culture i am pakistani but really not into the culture at all. i wear the clothes, can cook the food, understand how the mentality works etc but in all honestly i don't like the culture (don't kill me!) i consider myself to be british first and only speak english fluently. i have family members constantly telling me to speak urdu and thats the only time when i wish i knew how to speak it so that i can politely tell them to **** off. if i ever plan on living in pakistan only then will i make the effort to learn it, as i have zero plans to leave the UK i don't see why i should speak any other language than english
so theres my boring life story so far, to sum it up for the tldr community - i'm getting older, i'm unemployed, fat, a virgin, not working, not going out, shutting myself away too much, at a constant battle with my identity, don't socialise at all, pretty much in a rut and the only thing keeping me going is my stubbornness to give up and determination to be content.
so my questions are:
. on a scale of 1-10 how much of a loser do you think i am (please don't be polite)
. what changes would you make if you were me?
. if you met me in person, knowing what you knew of me would you be interested in knowing me?
. am i a lost cause?
. or did you just find this whole thing pointless?
lol i basically just feel lost right about now, like i'm wasting my life and don't really know what i should be doing to live my 'best life', all i do know is that i've got this niggling feeling that if i don't make any changes i'm gonna be left with a lifetime of regrets, which i don't want.
please give me any input, even if its just to tell me to get over myself
thanks for taking the time to read xx