I Am Not Where I Wanted to Be At This Age Stories of Experiences

I feel old by not having kids, when most women have them at a much younger age than mine. The vast majority of women would have children at some point, and most start at around 20 years old, and I would like to have been a young mom...

Being a little kid is great because ignorance is bliss. I remember every year id look at the kids one grade ahead of me. They looked happy and had friends and my little ass was weird, lonely, and naive. It always disappointed me when i...

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." - Deepak Chopra

All my life I've been busy, a straight A student and a good athlete described me pretty well. and life happened, now I want the things I've always...

In a way this is an update to a story I wrote almost 2 years ago about being 21. I'm just about to turn 23 I did graduate from WVU just over a year ago. Since then I have gotten a full time job working at a place I'm not particularly...

My birthday is on mother's day and Im turning 23. You may think Im not old, but I feel old because at this point in my life, I should've been somewhere. I should've completed something. I never once dropped out of school or fell in the...

I used to have such a clear vision of my life and how I wanted it to be.I am fortunate, I have amazing parents who brought me up well. Everything went wrong when I was in charge of my life. I've made so many mistakes now and my life is...

if you could compare the segments of your life by types of roads, mine started on one of those mountain dirt roads. very crooked dusty trees hanging over in hot summer. cold icy rutted in winter...

I was planning to be stuck at college with no idea what to do, or to be dead because the world was over. Thankfully, I am dropping out of college and I am going to become a meaningful, independent person. I know that I will be famous in...

I started this blog to simply relieve myself from daily frustrations, to things I cannot simply share with others. I'm a young women with very many hopes and dreams on a path I'm not sure I know how to start. I'm not the strongest...

I always envisaged that at my age (3 weeks short of 21) I'd be at University. I intended to use my qualifications to get a good job, a comfortable amount of money. then I wanted to go travelling around the world and eventually settle...

I am 44 year old African American Female who is in Recovery from drugs.I have been clean and sober many times before but this time there have been some major changes that have definitely assisted me in remaining consistent and...

As old as I am I truly thought that I would have finished transitioning by now. I don't have a single surgery done. I think that part of the problem is that I am not making anywhere near what I wanted to by this age. Hell, I just wanted...

i will persevere and get to where i want to be

Feel like I've wasted my life. I haven't achieved anything close to my potential and have missed out on so much. I've been too lazy, lacked any confidence and worried too much about people who didnt matter. I wish I could go back about...

My age... I can't catch up with it... I left behind... I can't realise I'am 25. When I meet people of my age it seems strange to me.. to be their age!.. When a person is 28 it suddenly strikes me it is only 3 years difference.. and that...

Growing up I always had a plan. I knew what I wanted to do, where I wanted to be and how I was going to do it. I imagined myself with a career, married and with kids by the time I was 27.I am 23. I have no idea what I want to do with my...

...Where I wanted to be at this age, and frankly, I'm highly disappointed in myself for not being the published author, and poet that I wanted to be by this time, and having royalty checks coming periodically in the mail for me. I just...

When she was 22 the future looked brightBut she's nearly 30 now and she's out every nightI see that look in her face she's got that look in her eyeShe's thinking how did I get here and wondering whyIt's sad but it's true how society...

ever since being a little girl i wanted to be a police officer, but after joining the army to be a dog handler i ended up with an injured spine and it has taken 11 years to heal. so nowhere near where i wanted to be. would have loved to...