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I feel I took steps that ended up unexpectedly slowing down my progress towards a fulfilling life. You grow up and if you're lucky you get the degree, the job,

I feel I took steps that ended up unexpectedly slowing down my progress towards a fulfilling life. You grow up and if you're lucky you get the degree, the job, the promotion, the house, etc. The day to day of achieving these goals can make one forget that these goals are only a means to an end - a fulfilling life. If you lose sight of that, one day you'll achieve all of these goals and think "is this it? What now?". If I could start over, I'd place less importance on my career and more on everything else.

sureglymop 3y ago
Getting my degree in university, I've had a feeling like this during every exam season. At first you have tunnel vision and a clear goal and you study for hours everyday for your exams. Once they are over, it's like there's a weird purposeless feeling. To me it felt like I didn't know what to do with myself because all I had done before was studying so hard. I felt like I didn't know what to do for fun or what I even did in my free time before the exam season. Obviously I'm exaggerating a bit and after a few days or so that feeling wears off. But it is a taste of how it may feel after getting the degree.