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December 24, 2019 at 7:06 am #329217antonParticipant
Hi,
I am going through a tough time. For a couple years now. A lot have happened to mention here but in short: I could not complete my grad, lost my job, fell in love unrequited at the same time. Than a year later, my father passed away, still unemployed and now obesity level 2, had to move back to my mother’s house.
Most days I feel like I am a failure at everything: don’t have a relationship, nor a career or job (just making some bucks hustling),feel so powerless and beat myself up for every poor decision I have made in the past. Then on the other days I just keep existing trying to make ends meet and so.
I live in a third world country, so when I say I am struggling financialy it’s the real deal. There’s something about financial struggles that really attacks our inner core, our sense of value.
I was as I said, trying to get out of this bad path I am down, trying to work out and so. Then I confided to a friend what I was going through and she made such terrible comments that I can’t get out of my mind.
she said the worst fear in her life is to became like I am now, living with her mother unemployed. she said that she fought for her place in her job, and that if I had not made such poor choices and not had moved back into my mothers home I could be employed too. Then she made the whole subject about herself and her achievements, and I was so shaken by what she said that I cried in the subway all the way back home and missed my station.
I am not sure if I should break the friendship… she seems like a frenemy sometimes. I am confused because I am feeling worthless and sad, really. Its super hard to be the cautonary tale of someone else. It is hard to be humiliated knowing that if I had sucess and money this so called friends would be praising me.
it is just hard.
December 24, 2019 at 11:09 am #329309AnonymousGuestDear anton:
I will read and reply to you in a couple of hours from now.
anita
December 24, 2019 at 1:01 pm #329317AnonymousGuestDear anton:
Reads to me that your friend lost her title and is not a friend. It is sad that when we are already down, some people will take the opportunity to kick us so that we fall further down. I might have done so to others myself. I hope I never will again.
I made lots of poor decisions in my life, not on purpose, it just so happened. And I beat myself up for those poor choices a whole lot. At one point, I decided to take my life as it is, and make the best out of it, to make the best out of the life that was available to me.
I wasn’t able to pick up any life I wanted, lives other people had. I had just the one, my life. And so, in small ways, one by one, gradually and over time, I made my life better. And now, it is good enough and still it can get better. So I keep doing every day something, or some things to make it still better.
You can do that too. I hope to read more from you.
anita
December 28, 2019 at 4:52 am #329925LaraParticipantDear anton,
I am not in the situation your are in, no experience living in a third world country but I wanted to comment on your post. If I write something offensive just take what you find useful and discard the rest.
Your “friend” is not really a friend imo. Maybe she tried to shake you up a bit to get you moving, but frankly its not working, obviously, and its pulling you down. She basically told you what a depression would tell you “other people work harder than me”, “if only I hadn’t moved back home” , “I made so many poor choices” classic depression thoughts. You don’t need that influence.
Obesity can pull you down even further when you are allready down so I would like to suggest to you to check out nutritionfacts.org/topics , especially the infos on beans and weight loss. You might not have access to all the food suggested there, but I believe improving your diet even a little can improve your overall well-beeing.
In general small steps as anita wrote is the way to go. Personally I set just one goal for myself every day, one thing that definetly needs to get done. Or make a list of really small goals, but not more than three. If you have a really good run you can add more goals when you finished those and feel like it.
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