<p>Ever since the new year started, I have been feeling a little down and lost. My grades are still high but not as high as they used to be, and I'm sort of rethinking my future plans due to a recent break-up...Anyone else feeling a bit confused? I want to make myself happy but I'm really not sure what to do anymore about my life. I know I need to excel in school, but I'm struggling to find something else I'm passionate about. I guess this was just a random rant post, but I felt the need to express my crisis aha.</p>
<p>Feeling confused is normal in life, especially in high school. Even though some people may act like they do, nobody has it all figured out. Just live your life, branch out into new experiences, and you will be fine.</p>
<p>I feel like I’m at the tail end of something similar. I don’t want to go into specifics, but a lot of the most important parts of my life started falling apart a few months ago and I realize now that I had tied my happiness and self-worth to a lot of things that were much too fragile and temporary. </p>
<p>The most maddening thing that anybody ever told me was that I should stop being sad. I tried that, I’m sure you’ve tried that, and you know that it’s not that easy. Still, the advice I kept repeating to myself that really helped was sort of similar. Eventually, something good is going to happen to you. You’re not going to spiral down forever. I don’t know what it is, but you’re as close to it as you’ve ever been, and you’re as far away from it as you’re ever going to be. The only way to find out what it is is to keep going. Maybe that’s not as profound as it sounded when I kept saying it to myself, but it helped me through a really rough time in my life.</p>