What is the point of my life?

I'm so bored. I skipped school today to sit at home reading TSR and watching rubbishy videos on youtube. Then I ate an entire pizza followed by half a tub of ben and jerries and a chocolate bar. Then I read a magazine.

I'm 18 and I feel completely stuck. What is the point of my life? I'm not getting anywhere, not accomplishing anything and have no motivation. I'm getting fatter and uglier and stupider everyday. Instead of getting nearer to achieving my goals I'm getting further away.

I really want to turn my life around. How? Literally, I wake up every morning at 7 and wonder 'what's the point' and then go back to sleep, get to school late, doss around, avoid some teachers, go to starbucks, go home, go on the internet, talk to friends on facebook and myspace, go to the pub, come home, watch tv, go on the internet, go to bed. I have ZERO motivation and I just don't know what to do about it.

Sometimes I feel like I'd be better off if I wasn't alive.

Reply 1

AlexanderKing

12

You need to pick yourself up. The first step you have taken is identifying that you need change to occur. The next step, is of two different choices.

You need to either evaluate what you're interests lie in, and endevour to seek them and use that interest as a possible career path.

You can commit yourself to some voluntary work. This lets you meet people who are in more dire sitautions that you in some cases, and you can enrich your understanding of the world and it's inhabitants, and the many different stories of others to know that YOU ARE WORTH SOMETHING.

No-One is Worthless On Earth. Including YOU! :smile:

Reply 2

naivesincerity

2

Doesn't sound like your miserable, so much as nihlistic. There's no real solution to nihlism, unless you find comfort in religion, or unless you believe some person/record/book can change your life

Reply 3

SmilerNuts

15

what are you doing after you leave school? it has to be said that you sound just like a lot of 6th years at my school, just bum around for the year but then in the summer and at university and stuff they are all gonna start over with life.
Get a part time job, look on the net for sports facilities in your area, get yourself sorted out and if you don't already have one get yourself a partner

Reply 4

leah_0600

if anything, university makes you feel more like this..

Reply 5

SmilerNuts

15

surely not all the time? you meet so many new people and are studying something you enjoy so you should be more motivated than in your final year at school

Reply 6

pumpkin7

13

i feel exactly the same. i've just been fired for the fourth time (whey!) and i'm just sick to death for searching for office jobs, but i'm not trained to be anything else.. and no one seems to want to train me.
i keep meaning to start going swimming, and i was going to go on a bike ride today, but found out that i couldn't get into my garage because i don't have a key. plus the pool opening hours are gay... they are open for like half an hour for the public on a weekday. that's just not on.
people keep telling me to go back to college, but why would i want to go back to a place which i left because i hated it? how would it be better now being 2 years older than everyone in my year? no way. thx.
i've never had any goals or ambitions in life.. i don't know what i want to do as a career, and the two things i am remotely interested in, i'm both not qualified for, and feel that if i even attempt to try doing them, i will fail miserably and end up back where i am now.
it's a horrible rut to be stuck in. i wish i knew how to help.
i'm about good enough to be a toilet cleaner, which, by the way, i am not doing.

the world, sucks!

Reply 7

naivesincerity

2

Maybe a change of scene or travel is what you need to feel more inspired

Reply 8

SmilerNuts

15

pumpkin - what are the 2 things you're interested in? surely you've seen the adverts for learn direct and stuff, you could possibly retrain online, it wouldnt cost much and you could end up doing something you really enjoy

Reply 9

h82think

14

You need to work out what makes you happy?
What do you want from life?

Reply 10

Ronove

18

Find some things that give you a sense of achievement and do more of those. Doing more = wanting to do more = motivation. Find stuff you want to try and get good at. Exercise should help too, even if it's just some dancing around to happy songs.
If you start feeling really bad, see your doctor, they could refer you to a counsellor or someone. :smile:

Reply 11

pumpkin7

13

SmilerNuts

pumpkin - what are the 2 things you're interested in? surely you've seen the adverts for learn direct and stuff, you could possibly retrain online, it wouldnt cost much and you could end up doing something you really enjoy

music and art.

they are both annoying subjects though.. you can't do anything to do with them unless you have some gay diploma.
i guess not, meh.

Reply 12

scribble_girl

14

Anonymous

I'm so bored. I skipped school today to sit at home reading TSR and watching rubbishy videos on youtube. Then I ate an entire pizza followed by half a tub of ben and jerries and a chocolate bar. Then I read a magazine.

I'm 18 and I feel completely stuck. What is the point of my life? I'm not getting anywhere, not accomplishing anything and have no motivation. I'm getting fatter and uglier and stupider everyday. Instead of getting nearer to achieving my goals I'm getting further away.

I really want to turn my life around. How? Literally, I wake up every morning at 7 and wonder 'what's the point' and then go back to sleep, get to school late, doss around, avoid some teachers, go to starbucks, go home, go on the internet, talk to friends on facebook and myspace, go to the pub, come home, watch tv, go on the internet, go to bed. I have ZERO motivation and I just don't know what to do about it.

Sometimes I feel like I'd be better off if I wasn't alive.

Okay, aside from the fact I'm a month shy of my 18th birthday.. I think you might be me.
I've had a very very similar (if not identical) day (including the ben&jerry's!)
I don't have any advice to offer you except to say you're not alone :smile:

Maybe we'll figure out what the point is somewhere along the line, but unless we keep on living and having new experiences we're not going to have a chance to find out...

Ps. You're almost certainly not getting uglier, or stupider :] - and I know full well after the icecream that if I do get fatter it's my own fault :p:

Reply 13

ABeautifulMind

6

What would you like to do?

DO IT.

Find out how to and stop focusing on whats missing and look at what you have.

Its the moments we live for anyway so make the most of it. You only live once.

Reply 14

romeosbitch

15

I think you feel like this after you've done one thing for too long,
literally everyone at college is feeling like this, including me.

I pride myself on being very self motivated but im having a tough time, you sit and think "whats the point?"
I'm just plodding along, getting my work in on time and looking forward to the holidays and uni,

you need to find yourself a goal.
for me its my holiday with my sister in the summer, keeps me going as every day gone is a day nearer.

Sooner or later you'll find something that motivates you again, and it wouldnt help to go out looking for what it is that gets you motivated.

Reply 15

Anonymous #1

OP

thanks everyone. very helpful advice.

i will try to get off my bum and do something. i guess you're right that its partly 'senioritis', because a lot of my friends are feeling pretty similar too.
im finding it weird because i used to be very motivated and busy and rushing around everyday doing lots of extracurricular/socialising/voluntary work etc and now i literally can barely be bothered to get up to go to the loo.

i can't wait to leave school, not because i hate it, but because I NEED A CHANGE. seven years. too long. hopefully then things will start to pick up. for now ill just try to motivate myself as much as i can, starting by getting off the internet. now. or in a couple of minutes...ill just check myspace...lol

but thanks

Reply 16

theepw

14

Anonymous

I'm so bored. I skipped school today to sit at home reading TSR and watching rubbishy videos on youtube. Then I ate an entire pizza followed by half a tub of ben and jerries and a chocolate bar. Then I read a magazine.

I'm 18 and I feel completely stuck. What is the point of my life? I'm not getting anywhere, not accomplishing anything and have no motivation. I'm getting fatter and uglier and stupider everyday. Instead of getting nearer to achieving my goals I'm getting further away.

I really want to turn my life around. How? Literally, I wake up every morning at 7 and wonder 'what's the point' and then go back to sleep, get to school late, doss around, avoid some teachers, go to starbucks, go home, go on the internet, talk to friends on facebook and myspace, go to the pub, come home, watch tv, go on the internet, go to bed. I have ZERO motivation and I just don't know what to do about it.

Sometimes I feel like I'd be better off if I wasn't alive.

Hmm, this is a tough situation to be in if you have no motivation. But the only real way to get out of that rut that you are in, is to go to school and work your ass off to get somewhere.

It might be worth you seeing someone about your feelings of not wanting to be alive.

Hope it gets better for you

Reply 17

Cortez

17

What's the point of ANY life? I seriously can't see one.

Reply 18

romeosbitch

15

Cortez

What's the point of ANY life? I seriously can't see one.

that just opens up a whole can of sartre worms.

Reply 19

Yoda

12

I came home from school today and went on TSR to read about some guy complaining he bunks school to sit about doing nothing. If you have nothing to do at home, why rush back? Are you honestly that stupid?

What is the point of my life?

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