I’m 25 and a half, and I honestly feel like I’ve wasted 8 years of my life doing absolutely nothing. Not just a few unproductive months, I mean real years lost to procrastination, overthinking, fear, and that constant lie: “I’ll start tomorrow.”
I’ve been unemployed for 2 years and 4 months now. Every single day I spend around 8 hours just scrolling on my phone, YouTube,Tiktok, random stuff, anything to escape reality. I’ve basically trained myself to be lazy. I even find myself running from job opportunities for no reason. It’s like I’m scared to move forward, scared of responsibility, scared of trying again.
The worst part is I know exactly what I’m doing. I can see the time slipping away in real time, and I still don’t move. It’s like I’m stuck in a loop.
I want to fix my life, but I’m terrified of obstacles and failure. I keep thinking: what if I start now and still don’t make it? What if I reach 35 or 40 and look back, realizing I wasted not 8, but 15 years of my life? That thought destroys me.
Every minute feels precious now, but that pressure makes it even harder to start. I feel like everything I do from this point has to be perfect, otherwise it’s all pointless, and that perfectionism is paralyzing me.
I’m not looking for motivational quotes . I just want real advice from people who’ve been here, people who’ve wasted years, felt stuck, but somehow managed to turn it around.
How did you start again after losing so much time? How did you deal with the fear and the laziness? Any honest insight would mean a lot.