I feel like a Failure...............?

Question

I feel like a failure........?

ok well sometimes i just feel like im going no where in life and that i will end up like my half-brother: a 30yr old drugie. Thats not what i want to do or be. I sometimes feel like a failure because i dont meet up with my parents expectations. They want me to be more helping around the house, which i am but it gets to the point where i just want to have some fun, im 15.

I mean whats the point of life, go to school for 12years and then hopefully go to college, and graduate. Then maybe if your lucky enough get a job in your major,because not every graduate is guarenteed a job in there major.

I ask you....why is this? Whats the point of life?

Answer 1

don't feel like a failure! lighten up! how can you live life to the fullest when you are so negative about life itself? have fun too, don't always do what your parents expect you to do. its your life! they want to you to be like thme. be yourself! you go to school for a reason, to get a good job. when you get a good job, have a family and live your life you'll be happy. but first.... DON'T BE SO NEGATIVE

Answer 2

Don't despair. I'll make this answer short because I've answered it several time before. Get the book I listed in sources as fast as you can and read it cover to cover. It will open your eyes to things you never gave thought to before and you'll find yourself on a road to recovery. The mind is a powerful tool to use in the healing process and to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

Answer 3

If someone says they have an answer to your question about the point of life, they are a liar.

That being said, don't worry about your parents expectations, set your own expectations, and try and reach them. If you don't, adjust them. If you want to have some fun, make that part of your expectations. Figure out what you want to do, then do it.

Answer 4

i understand what your saying.. im 16.. you sound a little depressed.. life is life.. theres no one answer... just keep your head up.. once you make it to 18 things will change.. your outlook on life will change.... but things WILL get better.. and if you ever need someone to talk to.. or just want to chat.. im here...

Answer 5

This is from Pastor Rick Warren

What is the purpose of life? And I respond: In a nutshell, life is preparation for eternity. We were made to last forever, and God wants us to be with Him in Heaven.

One day my heart is going to stop, and that will be the end of my body-- but not the end of me.

I may live 60 to 100 years on earth, but I am going to spend trillions of years in eternity. This is the warm-up act - the dress rehearsal.

God wants us to practice on earth what we will do forever in eternity. We were made by God and for God, and until you figure that out, life isn't going to make sense.

Life is a series of problems: Either you are in one now, you're just coming out of one, or you're getting ready to go into another one.

The reason for this is that God is more interested in your character than your comfort.

God is more interested in making your life holy than He is in making your life happy.

We can be reasonably happy here on earth, but that's not the goal of life. The goal is to grow in character, in Christ likeness.

This past year has been the greatest year of my life but also the toughest, with my wife, Kay, getting cancer.

I used to think that life was hills and valleys - you go through a dark time, then you go to the mountaintop, back and forth. I don't believe that anymore.

Rather than life being hills and valleys, I believe that it's kind of like two rails on a ra ilroad track, and at all times you have something good and something bad in your life.

No matter how good things are in your life, there is always something bad that needs to be worked on.

And no matter how bad things are in your life, there is always something good you can thank God for.

You can focus on your purposes, or you can focus on your problems.

If you focus on your problems, you're going into self-centeredness, "which is my problem, my issues, my pain."

But one of the easiest ways to get rid of pain is to get your focus off yourself and onto God and others.

We discovered quickly that in spite of the prayers of hundreds of thousands of people, God was not going to heal Kay or make it easy for her.

It has bee n very difficult for her, and yet God has strengthened her character, given her a ministry of helping other people, given her a testimony, drawn her closer to Him and to people.

You have to learn to deal with both the good and the bad of life. Actually, sometimes learning to deal with the good is harder. For instance, this past year, all of a sudden, when the book sold 15 million copies, it made me instantly very wealthy.

It also brought a lot of notoriety that I had never had to deal with before. I don't think God gives you money or notoriety for your own ego or for you to live a life of ease.

So I began to ask God what He wanted me to do with this money, notoriety and influence. He gave me two different passages that helped me decide what to do, II Corinthians 9 and Psalm 72.

First, in spite of all the money coming in, we would not change our lifestyle one bit. We made no major purchases.

Second, about midway through last year, I stopped taking a salary from the church.

Third, we set up foundations to fund an initiative we call The Peace Plan to plant churches, equip leaders, assist the poor, care for the sick, and educate the next generation.

Fourth, I added up all that the church had paid me in the 24 years since I started the church, and I gave it all back. It was liberating to be able to serve God for free.

We need to ask ourselves: Am I going to live for possessions? Popularity?

Am I going to be driven by pressures? Guilt? Bitterness? Materialism? Or am I g oing to be driven by God's purposes (for my life)?

When I get up in the morning, I sit on the side of my bed and say, God, if I don't get anything else done today, I want to know You more and love You better. God didn't put me on earth just to fulfill a to-do list. He's more interested in what I am than what I do. That's why we're called human beings, not human doings.

Happy moments, PRAISE GOD. Difficult moments, SEEK GOD. Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD. Painful moments, TRUST GOD. Every moment, THANK GOD.

This is beautiful and food for the soul. A friend sent it to me, and I would like to share it with you. If you have not read the book the Purpose driven life you are missing a treat!!! Lesa