Every one feels that way during life. It puts the good times more in focus.
You don’t say whether or not you can still run. If so take up hobby jogging. Elites eventually become hobby joggers. A group of them started a running forum that’s old and stale. Maybe you could start a better one or work with them to move LRC dinosaur into the next generation.
Just don’t give up. Something good will come along
I felt similar a number of times - about running, about getting a PhD and making myself harder to employ rather than easier, about writing research papers that I thought were great - but nobody even read. Somehow, things worked out in the end, but it was a long slog sometimes.
Eventually, I just decided to do what I like. Study history, learn about meteorology, try cooking, drink whiskey now and then, reconnect with old friends and family, travel to other counties, flirt with my wife, and I am having the time of my life. I don’t think too much about the past (can’t change it) or the future (how much time is there?). I can only control what I do each day as it comes, and I don’t like wasting any days.
Oh, I did not mention surviving cancer. Once you think you’re about to die, you really learn how great it is to be living.
Damn. May be the best post I’ve read on this site. Very inspiring and being mindful is what it’s about. Too much worry about what the future holds.
Has anyone else ever felt depression or despair after working hard for something and failing? How did you get over it? I really feel like there is no meaning to my life.
You never had meaning in your life. At this moment in time you are closer to a meaningful life than you have ever been during the last 10 years. You have awaken and see reality and are now asking the right questions.
So many spend their lives and so much energy pursuing meaningless goals.
You have opened your eyes, questioned your direction, and feel reality based angst.
What I am about to tell you should change your life:
Thomas Edison, the great inventor, tried so many things and failed countless times. For just the discovery of the light bulb filament he tried 10,000 different materials! Imagine how the average person would have felt at number 12 or 23 or 78? Total failure! But not Thomas Edison. He knew the power of keeping on. So don't despair. Stay positive and it will happen! I know this is true because I have done it. Right now I'm going through a rough cycle but I know I will come out ok because I know what I just described above.
It helped to have a bona fide genius around in the form of Nikola Tesla, who performed the brunt of his technical work (Edison had no formal education).
Has anyone else ever felt depression or despair after working hard for something and failing? How did you get over it? I really feel like there is no meaning to my life.
Has anyone else ever felt depression or despair after working hard for something and failing? How did you get over it? I really feel like there is no meaning to my life.
Has anyone else ever felt depression or despair after working hard for something and failing? How did you get over it? I really feel like there is no meaning to my life.
If you're having self-esteem issues and feel you're missing the meaning of life, you've come to the right place. Dive into a lot of these posts/comments and you might just realize you are a successful genius.
Has anyone else ever felt depression or despair after working hard for something and failing? How did you get over it? I really feel like there is no meaning to my life.
Failure only sucks if your stop there. You put the 'failure' tag on it. Others put the 'hiccup' tag on it.
If you ran for 10 years you must have ran 10,000 miles or more which means you have long term adaptations. That means you can probably run an 18 5K off 20-25 mpw and win your age category (assuming you are 45-60).
Has anyone else ever felt depression or despair after working hard for something and failing? How did you get over it? I really feel like there is no meaning to my life.
I took up running in my 30s and have gradually progressed. There have been a number of injuries caused by overtraining but I am more sensible now. For me running is a much needed outlet. If I had a bike, a tennis and a golf membership I'd be even happier.
I gave up too early. 30 years later and I still regret it almost every day. It absolutely kills me being that I'm pretty sure of what I may have accomplished. Trying and not making it is called chasing your dream.
You were right to give up. Wasn’t going to happen for you.
It's silly to be upset about not having run some arbitrary time.
It's completely understandable to regret not spending 2-3 years in your early-mid 20s to maximize your running ability.
Has anyone else ever felt depression or despair after working hard for something and failing? How did you get over it? I really feel like there is no meaning to my life.
Aouita in an interview said that everyone has to follows his own dreams and not listen to what others suggest to him.
If you followed your own taste and dreams forcefully you will succeed at the end.
Has anyone else ever felt depression or despair after working hard for something and failing? How did you get over it? I really feel like there is no meaning to my life.
Aouita in an interview said that everyone has to follows his own dreams and not listen to what others suggest to him.
If you followed your own taste and dreams forcefully you will succeed at the end.
A good advice is to always set up new goals and dreams to strive at......some you reach and most of them not. It's the way to strive for them that counts...there are three things that matters most in life...they are love, friendship and humor. If you have been loved and you have loved your life is completed!