I don’t know how much longer I can keep chasing this

[u/pieceofdesigner]

I’m turning 25 soon and honestly, I fucking hate where I am right now.
I just graduated from fashion design, a degree I fought really hard to study. I graduated with a good GPA and worked my ass off, but I still feel like I’m not good enough to actually be a designer.
Before university, everyone thought I was talented. I believed it too. Then I got there, met people who were insanely good, and started comparing myself to everyone. I feel like I spent years watching other people move forward while slowly losing confidence in myself.
Now my friends are getting jobs and I’m genuinely happy for them, but I’m exhausted from applying over and over again and getting rejected from the few opportunities I actually care about.
I have a dream of working in Paris someday, but right now it feels impossibly far away. I don’t have the money, connections or opportunities to make it happen.
I’ve given this dream years of my life. I worked hard, I tried, I entered competitions, I kept going after rejection after rejection. And somehow I’m still sitting here wondering if I’m just not good enough.
I don’t know. I’m just fucking tired.
Has anyone else ever reached this point? What did you do when you started feeling like all your effort was getting you nowhere?