Does the future make you panic?

Pinker · Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:01 pm Post subject: Does the future make you panic?

When I think about the future it sometimes makes my heart race.. I feel like i'm kinda locked away whilst the whole world is moving forward. I panic when I try to think about what i'm going to do and what I need to achieve. I used to think "Hey i'm young.. things will sort themselves out with time". Now i've turned 20 and my 'teen years' are gone. Though I guess thats just a phrase anyway. I watched the film The Shawshank Redemption yesterday, and the guys who had been let out of prison after serving 30/40 years couldn't cope on the outside world, because they had been so institutionalised. I could relate their fear and anxiety to what we suffer every day, though the irony is we *are* on the outside to begin with. It's such a struggle sometimes.

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bletch · Newbie User Joined: Apr 19, 2008 Posts: 13

Your sig is funny Laughing

As for the future, yeah, it worries me.... but so does the present, too... and the past, for that matter...

alex29 · Intermediate User Joined: Dec 15, 2007 Posts: 133

its not a panic for me but i do worry alot! I just feel like every day is going to be a social struggle and that Im going to keep myself from acheiving things. i feel sheltered and unable to do things in the real world

Helyna · Posted: Sat May 24, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject:

I'm terrified to look at the future. Okay, only about certain things, but it's enough. I don't want to stop being a teenager. I don't want to move away from my parents. I don't feel like I can handle the world outside of school.

IcarusUnderWater2 · Intermediate User Joined: Mar 15, 2008 Posts: 198

I spend every moment wishing i was in the future... in my dreams... and i worry constantly that i will never live up to them.

recluse · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 9:37 am Post subject:

I worry a lot. And my main worry is that i will not change and that i will end up a lonely old man stuck in some home. I'd rather die young than be a lonely old man.

Carstuar · Posted: Sun May 25, 2008 11:54 am Post subject:

I guess that if I did think about the future, it would make me anxious, but I don't.
I really can't see further ahead than a few days or a week. I worry greatly about the NEAR future, though. If I have to do something that I can't handle the following day, I can't sleep unless I'm extremely tired.

I'm a worrier,
not a warrior.

dilapidated · Newbie User Joined: Jun 11, 2008 Posts: 2

Yes! It took me two extra years to graduate from high school in part because of the fear of my unknown future. Now I am 20 and either barely facing it with panic and hopelessness or still trying to avoid it and retreat from everything that can remind me. The trouble is you can't hide from it for very long without making everything worse and that much harder for yourself. I want to know how to get past this but I fear the answer is simply to just face it.

LostLuna · Newbie User Joined: Jun 11, 2008 Posts: 14 Location: USA

I worry about the future as well .
I used to want so badly to grow up , now I want to stop time.
I can't really imagine the future. That is why it scares me I think. I panic occasionally about it, but mostly its a vague dread that I feel.

coriander1992 · Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 7:45 am Post subject:

I worry about the future constantly...but then, I worry about everything.

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