Wasted Life

I cant stop thinking about wasting my past. I regret not making the most of my youth while I only lived it once. I barely stepped outside my house and basically had 0 social life outside school/uni. Dont have any experiences that a teen is supposed to go through e.g didnt go to prom, never been to any party etc. Dont have any significant memories of uni either, missed out on a lot of events. Now that Im in my mid 20s I feel Im atleast 5/6 years behind my peers socially, I dont have anything to show for my age excpet the facial and body hairs and a few wrinkles, inside I feel like a teen in a 24 yr old body, I feel so low about wasting the time I was only going to have only once. I just wish this life is all a dream and that I can wake up as a kid/teen again and not waste a single opportunity to live.

Im not talking in any way about wasting my time regarding my career cause Im pretty much set to have have a good job after graduating with a 2:1 or I would hope to atleast.

Mate you are letting Societal constructs get the better of you......

Your just having a quarter life crisis it passes, here is another aspect people fail to realise, they think after university my social life will be over. That is such rubbish, idk where our generation got that from. You will make loads of friends at work and go out with them especially if you work for a bigger company or in London, also you will have money and a more adult social life. You havent missed anything.

We can't live in the past however we're able to make new future. Make memorable moments at present rather than wishing it in the past...On the safe side you didn't had to go through teenage drama(but yes, I realise,there are repercussions to that)
What's stopping you from having a social life now though

Congratz, you got away without having to deal with alcoholism, unwanted pregnancies, heartbreak, drunken accidents, arrests, drug addictions, and sex addicts.

Who said these things make up your teenage years, bar the hearbreak, they acc occur more in the 20s rather than teens. And anyways you dont have to do these things to enjoy your teens anyways.

What do you seem to be regretting not doing in your teens then?

Not making lifetime memories, not doing stupid things and getting caught (obvs not criminal), not going to prom, not going out with friends, not joining a sports club when I was quite good at it and maintain fitness by hitting the gym, not doing a part time job, not learning German when I acc wanted to but was too lazy, not going to grammar school instead of a college and so on...

Not making lifetime memories, not doing stupid things and getting caught (obvs not criminal), not going to prom, not going out with friends, not joining a sports club when I was quite good at it and maintain fitness by hitting the gym, not doing a part time job, not learning German when I acc wanted to but was too lazy, not going to grammar school instead of a college and so on...

I wish I had teenage drama in my life. Nothing's really stopping from having a social life, but as you stated its the repurcussions of not having teenage drama that is making it hard right now.

How many of those can you do now? Why can't you do it now? Why does 'lifetime memories' have to be something specific?

I get your point that I can still do those things now and I have been doing them in my 20s, but its very sadening to think that I wasted them teenage years and didnt make the most of them just becuase of my laziness.

I cant stop thinking about wasting my past. I regret not making the most of my youth while I only lived it once. I barely stepped outside my house and basically had 0 social life outside school/uni. Dont have any experiences that a teen is supposed to go through e.g didnt go to prom, never been to any party etc. Dont have any significant memories of uni either, missed out on a lot of events. Now that Im in my mid 20s I feel Im atleast 5/6 years behind my peers socially, I dont have anything to show for my age excpet the facial and body hairs and a few wrinkles, inside I feel like a teen in a 24 yr old body, I feel so low about wasting the time I was only going to have only once. I just wish this life is all a dream and that I can wake up as a kid/teen again and not waste a single opportunity to live.

Im not talking in any way about wasting my time regarding my career cause Im pretty much set to have have a good job after graduating with a 2:1 or I would hope to atleast.