Ask HN: Has anyone here ever tried throwing everything away?
This is a personal question hence the small tag. I don't want to post this on reddit or another forum, because too many responses would end up memes or be plain commonly said advice devoid of sincerity. Maybe here they won't be, idk.
For anyone here who has struggled for years to improve their life but hasn't been able to do it. Or hasn't been able to accept that he has. Have you tried to just say fuck it ? Did it work out if you did?
For years every 2-3 months I'd wreck myself emotionally and contemplate starting over and that desire would always get subdued by common sense that nothing would really change or that I'd throw away the good I've built for myself. And plenty of other good reasons that have stopped me.
But my mind just conjures rational sounding reasons for anything that my emotions dictate. The moment I am disappointed and angry at the present it is willing to tell me that betting everything on the future is all that is left. The moment I feel fear in the uncertainty of that future it begins to play a tune so dissonant to the previous one. I guess all people are like that?
If there are people in the comments, who have felt something similar, I want to hear what have you done. If you've managed to "fix" the things you felt needed fixing or resolving. Or if things might have changed for the better, but you still have that unending feeling inside you that it isn't right yet. Or if everything has crumbled apart in the end.