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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was smart, athletic, social, pretty and confident. I didn't really care about cliques or anything else. I just did what I wanted and befriended who I wanted.

High school was a great time for me. I loved it. Had lots of friends, didn't care about peer pressure or any of the teen angst issues, had a lot of fun and just lived life.

This all carried through my late twenties and it has all been downhill from there. On paper I look successful but health issues, and life have just dragged me down. I would give a lot to regain the happiness and confidence I had in high school[/quote]

This is very common: pretty, popular girls (and boys as well) peaking in high school.  I wish I could understand why. [/quote]

I am the poster you quoted. For me, my twenties remained pretty carefree. I worked a flexible job that paid enough to pay my bills and I lived frugally and saved and traveled alot. I didn't have a lot of commitments or responsibilities and life was just easy. In my late twenties all my friends started really progressing in their careers, buying houses, getting married, having kids etc... and I started to doubt myself. I started to feel like I had somehow missed the boat on growing up and being a proper adult. I didn't have a career or a family or a house or money and I started to really feel like I was wasting my 'potential'. What had been really great now started to look immature when looked at in parallel with the lives of my cohort. So I tried to change and to do the 'proper adult' things in life. I went back to grad school, worked a full time more career oriented job etc. But in my early 30s I started having health problems and had some significant family responsibilities and I still didn't seem to have the life my friends did. I didn't have a spouse or kids or a house and I had given up everything that to me made life and enjoyable. I dug in for a few years and tried hard to do everything the proper way but life just wore me down and now it just drudgery. I have a good career and I own a home and I still take the occasional trip but at the end of the day, I should have strayed true to who I was rather than trying to conform. Peer pressure, self doubt, insecurities - they hit me in my early thirties instead of in my teen years. [/quote]

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