Doing well in life and depressed about it?!

Doing well in life and depressed about it?

5 years ago, things were very different in my life. I had no job, no money, nothing. Any money I could get my hands on would go on booze or drugs - I'd sit with a few old friends in a brick shed every night getting hammered in some way until I was virtually unconscious. It all sounds pathetic, but some of the most memorable times I've had were in and around that shed, with those people.

5 years on things have changed - I'm where I imagined I'd never be. I have a great job, a salary most people 10 years my senior would be happy to take, a great girlfriend, a flash car, own a nice house etc. etc.

The thing is, I'm scared I've become boring. Life 5 years ago was not productive, but it was exciting. Now I'm just bored. I'm 22, but feel about 35. I'm sensible.

This depresses me. Is this odd?

1 week ago
Actually Taganan, yes, one of them is dead - a terrible waste if you ask me. The others, well, they're not doing so well, 'professionally' anyway.

What made me post the question was the fact I seem to have sacrificed the personal elements of my life for material ones. I have lots of money now, but no longer the time and energy to do the things I used to.

I live away from home now and don't have the companionship I used to either.

No, but that is an interesting story.

It bears out the theory that positive changes can also have negative impacts.

D'you keep in contact with your old mates?