Life feels so mundane

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Anyone else just feel completely stuck in a rut.
I can't even explain why, I just feel so meh.
I have a good job, a caring family and good friends, my finances are alright. I just feel like there's no point to my life and I don't understand why I feel this way or what would change it

I was feeling like this yesterday op, even had a little cry. I have young dc, a job which I don't love or hate, and a husband who I adore. Lovely house, finances okay but feel the mundane overbearing me. I have decided to do more exercise as I think it will help.

I am 30 and don't have any children, I would love them one day, I just haven't met the person I want to have them with yet.

So glad I aren't the only person to feel like this!

It's hard to try and validate your feelings when you do have a life many would kill for, it doesn't make our feelings any less valid. Maybe I made a mistake using the word mundane, I don't know about anyone else but I can be in a room full of people and feel like the lonliest woman in the world. It can feel suffocating sometimes, the feelings are irrational and you are well aware of how bad you could have it, it doesn't make the feeling magically vanish though.
I pray anyone who feels or has felt this way does share it because I feel like part of a weight has been lifted by simply saying to someone I don't feel good right now.

I think some days we all just think, "Meh." Then you can wake up the very next day and feel fabulous for no reason whatsoever. I blame hormones. I think they're very real...

I have this a little atm.mayb we're suffering from SAD with the days getting darker? When ppl say think how much worse it could be, that never makes me feel better! It jus makes me feel guilty and sad for those who have it worse.it also makes me panic that something terrible will happen.I think I need a new hobby too.or a really good book to get stuck into.

DD is 9 months. I had days like this before and since she has arrived, personally it has nothing to do with having children. We just all feel a bit crud sometimes - the important thing is that you recognise it and ignore it - it'll be gone in a few days

Sometimes I wonder if it's because we don't have a problem, I.e. We would immerse ourselves in fixing it if we did, but we dont so we think about other stuff? Anyone agree?

Dear OP, I think we all have moments when we feel like this, when we believe no one else can be as alone or misunderstood as we are. I know I have definitely had periods of this. Currently, I am working on the idea of changing one thing and then changing another thing and then another, no time frame and it doesn't matter what, for instance, I have taken up baking, I am pretty rubbish at it. I've also thrown into my life some exercise, language learning and art! I am rubbish at them all but it takes me away from myself and the overthinking. I am watching less tv and doing less social media. I think we can drive ourselves mad trying to figure out what the point of life is, it is just what it is!

I have days like this sometimes. One day or hour I feel really happy, the next I'm down. I've got a job etc and I'm doing ok - nothing really hard happening at the moment - but I do sometimes feel down and like 'what's the point'. I agree with you mums when I was unemployed I had a job to find - I think I'm settled and that's not a good thing, I kind of feel like 'what's next' and the mundaneness (is that a word) gets me down sometimes. Not sure how helpful this post is

My life is mundane as fuck and I love it. I see friends and family members dealing with all sorts of
Challenges and drama that would send me over the edge. Boring is good!

Welcome to reality.

One of my best friends is like this - she comes from an upper class really lovely family, has 2 brothers who reaĺly care about her, married to a nice professional man with 2 lovely children.

I don't think she's unhappy as such just that there's a 'restlessness' as part of her nature. She's my friend anyway. I think she might be ultra sensitive and unsuited to the law environment she went into in order to 'do' something.

Hi OP. I find doing small acts of service makes me feel better. Nothing major, just helping a friend move house, having another mum over with her kids for a raid the fridge dinner so she doesn't have to cook, helping a neighbour with something in their garden. Also taking time to have a chat. Today I talked to two neighbours, my grocer, a lady in a shop. Leaving the house, engaging with others and small acts of service brighten my day and help me when Im feeling meh. Like trying too much introspection is not helpful for me.

Don't worry, Planet X is heading straight towards earth so there's only about three days of our futile existence left

Your life is too good, you've become too comfortable. No challenges, no hardship. This is when lots of people start questioning their happiness and the meaning of their lives.

I think most people feel like this some of the time and it's totally normal. And usually, of its own accord it just quietly passes. Without meaning to sound flippant without "mundane" those happy, special times in life wouldn't be as they would have no contrast.

Stay away from social media. Keep a thankful journal. Volunteer. Raise money for those less fortunate. Learn a new skill. Start running. There are lots of ways to keep the mundanity at bay.

Bullet - that's it...a 'restlessness' or an itch I can't scratch as I'm tied to the kids. Don't get me wrong - I love my kids and dh and wouldn't change them for the world - but the world out there is waiting and I want to explore!

Decades of this! I now celebrate the times when I am truly happy, tell my husband that this is what happiness feels like and use the memory when life is grey. Things like when my children grabbed my arms to volunteer me for something in the Science museum or drinking coffee in the sunshine in the garden with my husband, not big things but joyful.