I've grown to think that the best solution to feeling worthless is not giving a damn.

The way I see it is that society's definition of success is overrated. Most people that push so hard to be successful are either overworked or unhappy. Being forced to do work you don't enjoy just to climb up the corporate ladder or becoming wealthy doing work you absolutely hate isn't successful.

If anything, I would argue that my uncle, who is in his 50s, yet doesn't have a college degree and spends his days smoking pot and playing computer games most of the time is more successful than somebody who has climbed their way up the corporate ladder to become a wealthy corporate executive. Why? Because my uncle is free and happy and enjoying life. My uncle lives cheaply and only works when he needs the money. His attitude is that he is going to spend what money he has doing stuff that makes him happy because when he's dead, money is meaningless to him. Whereas that corporate executive would have to sacrifice spending time with his family or doing things he enjoys to attain that position. He would be sacrificing time he could spend doing what he enjoys in life that he can never get back becoming wealthy and powerful. Unless being successful makes you HAPPY, there is no point. Focus on what makes you happy and not what society tells you to do. That's my suggestion.


Then again, what do I know? I'm not "successful" by any means. I'm 27 and never had a full time job ever in my life and I don't have a college degree at all. I don't even have a driver's license and I'm just now learning how to drive. I became a community college almost 2 years ago, yet it's going to end up taking me almost 4 years to complete my my Associate's degree all because my mental health makes balancing full time classes and a job.