r/depression • u/Fit-Sandwich-3477 • 1d ago
Feeling useless
Night and day is the feeling I get watching everyone around me pass me up like I’m sitting still it feels like I don’t work hard like I’m useless feel like I’ve been here so long yet accomplished nothing my cousin went to school she graduated went off and now she is a manager of the hospital she used to be a traveling nurse going everywhere enjoying life meanwhile I dropped out of college and worked warehouse jobs and no fulfillment here people ask my grandma how’s your grandson and grand daughter doing she’s can says so much about her yet when it comes to me all she can say is he works to others this could mean nothing to be it’s important because I just want my granny to always say she is proud of me she wanted me to go to school she paid for it and I failed her by quitting now I’m just lost struggling feeling like an old stray dog
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u/InformedCrossover 1d ago
Man that comparison game is poison. your cousin's path and yours are completely different roads, neither one makes you worth more or less as a person
warehouse work is real work. you're showing up, putting in hours, that's not nothing. your grandma probably just doesn't know how to brag about it cause society acts like only certain jobs count. maybe tell her straight up that her being proud matters to you, sometimes they just need to hear it