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Tomorrow is my 21st Birthday, but I can’t stop thinking my life is a failure

BryceMcBryde

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September 22 2024 (which is tomorrow for me) I will be 21 years old. Its supposed to a special day for me……and yet I can only think of bad things about life. I started going to community college in January 2022, and I took basic beginner classes until December 2022 (math, history, etc). I originally went to community college for a computer programming, but I changed my major in the beginning of 2023 because I realized computers were not really my thing. I changed my major to art, which may have been One of the dumbest mistakes of my life. I should’ve just gone into Music, because that’s what really interests me, and it’s something I’m actually good at. However, I wanted to learn how to draw and become an artist. Fast forward a months to January 2024, I begin my art classes……….. only to drop out. Art was really not my thing, did I despise being around the people in my class. I won’t go into detail, but I really disliked being in the same room as them. I figured I would just focus on my music at home, and get a microphone to record storytime videos on the side. Storytime videos have a pretty big following on YouTube, and I figured I could make some of them, since I have some interesting stories in my past. I figured I could narrate them with a very deadpan style of humor, and that they might catch some attention. I still plan on doing music and those videos, and I actually recently got approved for SSI, but I really feel like I screwed up my whole life by just not going into music in college. I’ve emailed my college asking if I can potentially go back since I am on SSI now, but if they say no, I don’t know what to do. I’ve emailed my college asking if I can potentially go back since I am on SSI now, but if they say no, I don’t know what to do with myself. The music and The videos are not guaranteed to take off, and while I will do everything I can to make them the best I can, I’m afraid of the outcome. I’m waiting for a response from my school.
 
Does your life have to be any one thing? If we measure ourselves by a specific, lifelong goal, I bet all our lives are failures.

You're also pretty young. You may have just lived a third or fourth of your life, so there's still time.
 

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