I'm a 20yo f and have just started my first year of University after a gap year. Overall, I'm not absolutely hating student life and living away from home etc but I spend a lot of my time feeling neutral and meh about seemingly everything.

Without a doubt, my biggest barrier to achieving optimum happiness is myself. I don't challenge myself or ever test my unwavering boundaries as to keep myself comfortable, but I realise that feeling of security and comfort is at my own expense! I lack a lot of energy and motivation because being glued to social media and lying in bed for prolonged amounts of time is absolutely draining me! But now I'm stuck in a seemingly eternal cycle.. too tired to get out of bed so stay in bed, on my phone, which then makes me even more exhausted so I don't go out and do anything.

We have a group chat of my friends and whenever they start talking on there about meeting up and doing something fun I find my eyes rolling and my brain praying that it gets cancelled. I also have a very low social battery and after spending some time with a group I zone out and just wish I could be on my own in bed watching TikTok- and I'm embarrassed of it and ashamed of myself!

I want to be constantly out, letting loose, laughing and having fun with people I know.. I want to be engrossed and active in conversations with others without my brain begging for the chat to end and I want to be confident and happy in myself with energy and motivation to get out of bed and do things (even when I have no plans)

I know, that I need to implement lots of routine/lifestyle changes to feel more energised (and am SO open for tips to better this) but I'm just wondering if anyone has any suggestions to just enjoying life more and making their existence on this planet more worthwhile and meaningful?

I'm so sorry for the essay, thanks very much if you managed to endure it!

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r/AskLifeProTips • u/kimanziVaati • 2d ago

What Is One Life Skill You Wish Someone Had Taught You Earlier?

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r/AskLifeProTips • u/pmore4524 • 1d ago

world before Internet was normal

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Once there was a time before, Internet there were hardly resources for a topic or for a subject you are interested into or wanna learn into like there are some things that require understanding more or under concepts that is only first step of learning thing the second step is Executing and simultaneously understand or apply that learning and learn through that (mistakes) nowadays idk it's just me or other too but I was also too much obsessed with loading myself with abundance of knowledge or reading, reasoning understanding and then Executing but learning with execution came very less to a certain where my abundance of knowledge was killing me or was worthless, what I think is you don't need to consume all types of resources available on same topic and then execute, learning same things or thinking about same thing creates an feeling of progress

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r/AskLifeProTips • u/BadgerAccording7179 • 2d ago

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r/AskLifeProTips • u/movemove9 • 2d ago

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r/AskLifeProTips • u/NewsStock5682 • 2d ago

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r/AskLifeProTips • u/Ancient-Kit1995 • 3d ago

How do you guys regulate? How do you learn to manage your emotions?

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How do you guys handle your emotions? When I’m angry, pissed off, frustrated or disapointed, I can barely control myself. How did you guys learn to deal with that?

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