29 yr Male and I am a second generation Hispanic (parents born overseas I was born in US), grew up in poverty with very little help emotionally, psychologically and financially. And parents are uneducated. Although I was able to get an engineering degree, sacrificed everything for this degree to get myself out of poverty, I was to an extreme where I didn’t do much other than work and study. Now at age 29, I am employed, but feel completely out of touch with myself, I feel like I lost my personality, love for life, passions, hobbies… so I am having difficulty connecting with people due to my lack of life experience. I keep beating myself over this and it’s causing extreme anxiety and regret. I feel like a man child that wants to be a 21 year old and experience everything a young kid would experience because I had to grow up and get serious very quick. I have difficult time focusing at work because I just want to work on myself and enjoy life, I feel like I am burned out. I often dream of quitting and just traveling the world to gain life experience and adventure. Anyone have any advice on how to deal with this?

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