It gets better right?

[nenen78]

It does get better right? please tell me it gets better. I'm hoping from where i am which i'm hoping is rock bottom the only way is up.
Now i don't want to sound all down and depressed but some days I have to admit i am.
I'm going to be 24 next week and i first heard of this book about a year ago when i was on holiday in the USA ( I'm english) and it mwas great to find out i was not alone in my madness but it hasn't gotten any better no worse but no better.
In the space of a year i have manages to move back home with my mother, which at the time seemed like a smart thing to day on my way back to normalness ( right). I was being consumed with debt living alone so going home seemed like the right thing to do.
I changed job from manager of a starbucks ( i no longer wanted to be asimulated) wich stopped being fun and got real stressful so much so i couldn't stand it any more.
and here it comes you knew it would I'm single.
I've been told that all this changing is normal but it's not normal to me. When i was a teenager ihad all these pre concevied ideas about where i'd be when i got to be in my twenties and this sure isn't it. i was going to be susecful, happy, rich and maybe married if not in a relationship, what happed where did it all go so wrong?
My mother seems to believe that i'm pandering to some corperate conspirace to make me believe thers somthing wrong with me when realy my problem is i'm to sensitive and emotional
Let me know if ou know where i'm coming from or you want to talk to someone who understands it may sound cheesy but we'll all make it with a little suport
hang in there
Nenen

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I know exactly how you feel. I had all these notions about how things would be. I'm 25, I have a masters degree and I even have a job that reflects exactly what my masters is in but I keep wanting more. I keep feeling like something is missing in my life. I just ended a serious relationship that I thought would lead to a lifetime commitment so now I don't even have that plan anymore. I'm lost now! What is the plan????

[beaker]

Feels like I'm right where you are about the 'too emotional, too sensitive' part. For the past 2 years (right after graduation) I've been in the Army, doing my obligatory service. Going through the physical training turned out alright, though just like everyone else, I wasn't entirely happy. But the real shocker came a few months after Boot Camp, discovering that it got way too emotional for me to handle when a Sargeant raised his voice at me. True, I was to blame, and it's not like I've not made mistakes before and couldn't take a reprimand. Just seems that now, particularly in the Army, when they tell you off, swearing and just throwing their weight around just because they can and it's the norm, I will start to cry. I'll get red eyes, tears welling up inside, but I won't lose control or start wailing. I can stand there and just look the Sargent straight in the face, but on the inside, it hurts so much in my heart that I can't control the tears.
Just like you were saying about all those dreams you had when you were younger, I really feel like i'm selling myself short cause I'm not doing them. And this revelation that I'm too emotional isn't helping either. It never really bothered me before--when I watched a movie that really touches me, I cry. Now it feels that so many of the things i've wanted to do in my life are closed on me cause i won't be able to deal with pressure.