Not "wear a condom" "don't drink and drive" type of advice. They've heard that. I'm talking about real...REAL LIFE advice that you learned the hard way.
I have a good friend who is 24 and regularly depressed and more so...feels lost.
Here's a secret for those of you who are too:
Nobody else knows what they're doing either. I have a very solid career but I am just going with the flow...regularly get the feeling I've fukked or am fukkin up...and feel lost. The most directed and driven people you know in life are actually lost like you too. Nobody decided "I'm going to be X" in hs or during college and then...did it...and if they did they have second thoughts and doubts every day. There is not a way you're supposed to be going, or a place you're supposed to be at a time in your life. Don't fall into those constructs. And don't get disappointed because you're not "there" yet.
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I hate to do this because you started this thread and it's a great thread and you made a tremendous point in the first post, but I essentially have the exact opposite view of this. "Nobody else knows what they're doing either" isn't necessarily true. I know, and a lot of people, know/knew what their goals/plans were early on in life (that's essentially how you end up with uber successful young athletes, musicians, businessmen, etc.) I think a very important thing for young people to do is figure out what they're trying to get out of their life, and then sorta live their lives backwards.
For example, I decided I wanted to be an entrepreneur pretty early on in life and so basically instead of working to become one, I simply acted like I ALREADY was a successful businessman and then kinda just tried to grow into it (of course, then I grew out of it and back into it again over and over, but that's a different story). And that's what I did with my social life as well... I decided what kind of person I wanted to be and instead of becoming it I just put into my mind that I already WAS it and then I just grew into it. Now obviously this doesn't work if you don't know what you want out of life... and I think I'm pretty fortunate in the fact that I knew what I wanted early on... but I think it's important to say that a lot of people do have their lives planned out and I personally think it's easier to be happy when you actually know what you're going for in life.
But as for my personal contribution to this thread, the most important thing you can do in life is BUILD MOMENTUM. And once you have that momentum built, DON'T STOP, because once the momentum stops it's hard to get started again. That's pretty much what went wrong for me in business - I was doing well, and the better you do the easier it gets, but then one day I decided I wanted to take a "break" and I took a year off and tried to get right back into it on some "If I did it once, I can do it again, even easier" shyt and it just doesn't work like that.
And that goes for anything. Business, wealth building (accumulation allows your money to work for you instead of you working for it), health/exercise... it's a helluva lot easier to stay in shape than it is to get in shape. Your social life... the more relationships/friendships you build and the earlier you build them, the easier it is to build more. Basically, it's all about building... it's basic math/physics, the more you have the more you'll get.
Edit: And I had to wait until now to post it because I just turned 29 today.
shyt is serious as fukk. 
searching for a job with no experience and just a degree is fukking HELL. I keep dealing with these bullshyt ass staffing agencies that never lead anywhere too.
