<p>Do you feel like you will never amount to anything in the world? You've dropped out of college, have no idea what you want to do, have no source of income? Your facebook friends that you never talk to in real life are getting married when you've never even had a girlfriend? Your Dad makes fun of you as you beg to get a minimum wage job and live off scraps? You feel like you are just drifting along in the world with no purpose or value and no one cares about you?</p>
<p>/end rant</p>
<p>The harder you fall, the higher you bounce my friend.</p>
<p>This is true. Without failure, you won’t be able experience success.</p>
<p>OP: My first year of college was a complete disaster. I’m 99% sure that I will be placed on academic probation next semester. It’s hard because I’m a first generation student and my parents were/are expecting so much from me. But I’ve decided to learn and analyze what I didn’t do so well this past year and work hard during the summer so that I can have a better sophomore year. Don’t let failures set you back, learn from them so you can push forward.</p>
<p>Sometimes I feel like the only people who care about me is my parents and sibling. Usually when someone calls me a failure, I feel motivated to bounce back.</p>
<p>I’m sorry about how you are feeling. It is great that you are getting it off your chest because I too wish I can have the guts to say how I feel. There are moments where I feel like I wasn’t ready for this whole “college” thing. But with two years left, I keep telling myself “I’m halfway there”.</p>
<p>To the OP, do you have any interests? I mean, anything? Why not try and pursue that? Whether it be something like graphic design or writing or anything. It is never too late to bounce back. If you ever decide to return to school, do what you like. </p>
<p>When I feel like I have no purpose in life, I do simple things to make me happy again. Like reading books, writing, drawing, strumming my guitar (I suck though, haha) , blasting my stereo with music, watch a movie. I know it sounds cheesy, but it helps. What makes you happy? =)</p>
<p>failure and success are subjective and dependent on the individual imo. Everyone feels like a failure sometimes (at least I’d like to hope so)</p>
<p>A man’s darkest hour can also be his finest…
There’s nothing wrong with feeling down, maybe even give yourself a little time. I think they call it soul searching.<br>
What matters is what you do with what you learn. </p>
<p>Maybe this is a wakeup call, use the experience to help focus you, make a real concerted effort to get back on track…</p>
<p>Mike</p>
<p>Sometimes, but not much as before. I usually dread on life as I had no real friends to talk to and everyone had something going on for you. I’m stuck at community college and everyone had something set for themselves. Some of my friends are getting married and some already lost their virginity to someone while I’m here with no girlfriend and didn’t even kiss a girl yet. Also, intelligence was not forte as I did mediocre on most of my grades and getting straight C’s. I feel like I had no reason to live if I’m going to live a mediocre life. I basically tell myself screw it, work hard on my education, try to get a good career, and everything will fall into places. Oh yeah, my parent wasn’t happy at all. I’m not going to be stuck in the past like before so I did something about it.</p>
<p>people who are mentioning friends getting married.
i was just wondering, how old are these couples?</p>
<p>On a daily basis.</p>
<p>But maybe because I’m burned out from 3 years of college and I’m just waiting to be put out of my misery (graduate).</p>
<p>I tend to feel like that when I have like a period of bad test scores and it feels almost impossible to bring the grades back up.
Also when, just everything in life sucks - friends, family life, health wise, etc</p>
<p>So I don’t think any of us knows what’s best to tell you, because your life sounds like rock bottom compare to ours. We’re more of the kind of kids who get our feeling hurt that we didn’t make it into the Ivy’s or got any scholarships. You sound like you’re in some deep ■■■. I mean if I were you, I’d probably reflect on my bad luck/decisions and draw motivation from that. you gotta start somewhere, right?</p>
<p>I think with final exams coming up, most people’s level of happiness drops a bit – some more than others. I always feel like a failure around exam time. I keep telling myself “Two more years. Just two more years. You’ll make it”. I just want school to be over and move on. But I still have 2 more years of graduate school – if I can even get in. =(</p>
<p>I have no real friends to talk to either. And when you are stuck at a school of 40,000 you feel so alone and don’t know who to turn to. Yet again, I have trust issues with other people. Growing up I had friends who would move on and disappoint me. Now I’m scared to get close to anybody. I push people away before I get too comfortable with them.</p>
<p>To the OP: Have you considered returning back to school? Maybe you can start over and improve from there. Also you mentioned Facebook friends. It does suck to see photos and events on your NEWS FEED. Or maybe learn about an event that your friends failed to tell you about until you see that most of them are going and didn’t invite you (like me -_-)</p>
<p>Maybe you need to delete people off of your list, stop going on there for a while, or just deactivate the account altogether. There is nothing worse than trying to compare what other people are doing in their lives to what you are or are not doing. You shouldn’t compare.</p>
<p>yea after I realized I didn’t even know 1/2 the people I had on fb, I just deactivated my account. On another note, don’t let facebook be a source to contact your friends. Stuff that goes on over the Internet are superficial.</p>