Is anyone else feeling perpetually bored and unfulfilled?
I work full time, currently doing a masters, writing my fourth book and getting myself on track with exercise. I have a family so they keep me busy too but I have this underlying ache of boredom and unfulfilment, which is probably why I keep taking on new things (the masters and the writing).
I struggle to relax… I find if I sit down I feel guilty that I should be doing something useful and honestly, the only thing that keeps me going day to day is writing my book but since I can only really do that in my very limited spare time, I start to get frustrated.
I feel like I should be doing more but I really don’t have the time. I’ve been to see a therapist but she simply tried to get me to answer why I feel so unfulfilled and I guess I don’t know is the honest answer.
Anyway, thanks for reading if you have done.
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Yep. Also went back to school while working my career full time, as a result. Honestly I think it made me feel worse in a way because it didn’t hit the spot and instead drained me because school mid 30s while working compared to school early 20s while working is a completely different ball game lol.
I don’t really know what to do to feel alive again tbh. Sorry I’m no help here, just wanted to share that I’m in the same boat, and I think have been for quite a few years now
I feel the same. I feel like I’ve got so many things waiting for me to do but when I peel away the layers, and stare at my core, I’m not quite sure why. I’ve got heaps to do, so much so that I feel I don’t even have enough time to do it all. But if I’m as busy as I feel then how come that despite it all, I’m still so bored and unfulfilled?
Why do I still feel so empty even though my life is so full?
Yeah everything I do feels more tedious and annoying than anything approaching fulfilling, especially my job. I have done a lot of therapy and never found it helpful for this either-seems like the therapists ability to help me sort out these feelings requires a level of insight about what WOULD be fulfilling that I simply don’t have.
Yes bored and unfulfilled is a good way to describe it. I’d probably add busy, bored and unfulfilled. Especially work. It’s not like I’m not doing stuff. I am busy, but it’s all boring and unfulfilling things.
I wouldn’t say that I ever loved my Job but it really hit home after having a kid. The hours a day doing something that’s doesn’t matter when I could be doing something that does, being with my family, is frustrating. I’ve been making changes. New job, adding more exercise/ fresh air … But it all doesn’t fix the core problem, which is too much of my time is spend on stuff that I don’t feel matters and I don’t care about.
Stop focusing on keeping your mind entertained and instead ask what good can I do and how do I do it? It’s pretty difficult since we aren’t conditioned to be like this, but I assure you it’ll help in the long run.
Do you have ADHD sis?