XMM GRADUATED FROM UNI & WORKING FOR 1+ YEARS ALREADY, “HOW TO FEEL YOUNG AGAIN”

How to get back youthful and carefree days?

As per title, just feel that in Singapore we grow up too quick, always chasing milestones and never really managed to enjoy truly carefree days.

The next milestone is always around the corner and “no time to rest on your laurels because the guy next door might be working harder and securing better opportunities”.

Now that I have graduated from uni and working for 1-2 years, feeling extremely empty. This is despite having everything I need to feel comfortable and secure: roof over head, a close family, job with good prospect, steady relationship, BTO secured.

Can’t help but I learnt how to fly without walking, anyone feel the same way?

Netizens’ comments

1. travel! few things are as beautiful as the foreign
2. The easiest way to feel a material improvement is to simply stop comparing yourself with others. Recognise that social media only portrays the best side of everyone’s lives. Don’t get triggered or dismayed by someone else’s perceived success. Run your own race in life and just strive to be a better version of yourself than the one yesterday.
3. No. I’ve been through the opposite during my teenage days, aimless, poor, unkempt, naive, unknowledgeable. If I could rewind the clock I would not have trodden on the same path.
4. another way to look at it is that we have been very lucky/blessed with not having to worry about those things. in our life, we have seen pple who have studied harder, worked harder than us but didn’t have the same desired results. it’s not because we are special but we have been blessed or have been lucky.
   it’s also not about comparing levels of pain, ie: the aren’t you glad you’re not a hungry kid in Africa thing. i believe that using other pple’s pain to compare doesn’t help in the long run.
   and as i grow older, i became more numb to things, the delicious food, the beautiful scenery become like “oh ok”.
   it’s the cycle of life, the youthful and carefree days are over, it’s been traded for experience, confidence and monetary stability. it’s like in nature, autumn will follow spring, it’s just life.
   i just try to tell myself on and off that don’t chase the happiness or the “old feeling of carefree and the world of possibilities” of youth, cherish and recognize the contentment. if there’s nothing i want to buy or wish for, it’s content with what i have, not empty. I’ve been lucky.
   just my 2.16 cents worth, ymmv.