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Anyone else feel that time is running out

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Rankandfile · 18/01/2025 20:33

For the last 8 years or so I’ve had this feeling that time is running out, along with a load of regret that I didn’t do more / make different choices. For perspective, I’m 55 this year, have a successful career, love my job, head a department, lived abroad from 30-52 (one year travelling and the rest working) and have 2 teenage kids. I just can’t shake off this feeling that I wish I was in my 30s or 40s and that I’ll blink and be too old to do anything!! Talk me out of this ridiculousness.

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VoodooRajin · 20/01/2025 16:48

thisisrubbish · 19/01/2025 18:23

Everyday! 62 years old and feel total despair everyday that I am not living my life fully!
I help out with grandchildren after school & holiday time. Love them to pieces, but sometimes feel weighed down by the commitment. Mostly feel bitter & angry that I have to provide so much support & social stimulation for my 82 yr old Mum, not in good health Mum.
I’m very lucky to be retired, but feel I would feel less pressure if I still worked. I want to travel, spontaneously. I want get up in the morning & just go wherever the mood takes me.
Live in london & hate it, would like to live elsewhere.
life is just passing me by. 😕

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middlewomanager · 20/01/2025 18:28

I have spent the whole day thinking about this thread
How much I am just trying not to get found out in my job.
How much I want to change my life but feel stuck

FenixWinda · 23/01/2025 12:59

While I can empathise with the OP (I'm almost 60), ageing is part of life after all, but it is annoying when people quantify how successful they are & what they own only to complain about how little time is left or the futility of at all.

Gemi33 · 25/01/2025 08:27

I feel the same. I'm in my early 40s, feel like I have wasted my 20s and 30s and achieved nothing. I'm single, no children and just can't see what there is to look forward to, just a very lonely time.

Applecharm25 · 04/02/2025 22:29

Life is always shit

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