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Feeling Bluesy and Lack Direction

  • 14-10-2008 7:07pm
    #1
    um7y1h83ge06nx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys,

    Thought I'd add a thread here, basically just looking for some advice on how to overcome a slight rut I find myself in.

    I don't know how to explain it but I recently feel bluesy, out of touch with myself and lack some sort of direction.

    I'm 25, have a pretty decent stable job, a wonderful girlfriend etc. but feel a little 'off'. Things can very easily put me in a sort of bluesy mood and my confidence can swing between very high to very low. At the moment though I really lack confidence and am very pessimistic as regards the future.

    Maybe I just need to get things off my chest, I don't know.


Comments

  • #2
    dr.bollocko
    Moderators, Music Moderators Posts: 35,945 Mod ✭✭✭✭dr.bollocko


    Why are you pessimistic?
    Unsure of your vocation? Unhappy with living arrangements? Never got around to doing something you really want to? Things just haven't worked out how you thought they would? Feeling occasionally trapped by indecision? Occasionally by financial worries and social anxiety?
    Haven't travelled enough? Lost the time to appreciate the world, life around us and nature? Not getting enough exercise anymore?
    And occasionally overcome by the big problems too? Is the world flying business class to an era of vapid self-indulgance? Does it only seem to reward the worst of us? Can we really ever be truly "happy", or just hop from moments of contentedness to moments of worry again and again and again? Wondering when and how we are going to stop wishing at least a third of our waking lives away? Endlessly second guessing your own better judgement? That sort of thing?


  • #3
    abi2007
    Closed Accounts Posts: 726 ✭✭✭abi2007


    that reply has me feeling sad now!


  • #4
    um7y1h83ge06nx
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,029 ✭✭✭um7y1h83ge06nx


    dr.bollocko wrote: »
    Feeling occasionally trapped by indecision? Haven't travelled enough? Lost the time to appreciate the world, life around us and nature? Can we really ever be truly "happy", or just hop from moments of contentedness to moments of worry again and again and again? Endlessly second guessing your own better judgement? That sort of thing?

    Interesting set of questions dr.bollocko.

    I guess the above ones seem to most relate to me at the moment. Sometimes, a feeling probably common among many, I feel just caught up in the whole 'rat race' thing.

    Sometimes I feel I would love to turn my back on everything, wipe the slate clean, and take a completely different approach to life. This is something I guess most people feel every once and a while, but when you feel this way it's ab bit of a struggle

    I guess the best thing to do is to change the negatives into positives.


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