I won’t go into all the details but I had a pretty rough life for most of my life and everything was, in my mind, always a type of get to “the next thing” where “then I’ll be happy” my whole life was like that. I had a pretty rough childhood, etc. Basically grew up with a parent being bipolar, parents split when I was like 8. Most of high school I had severe acne and social anxiety. Fast forward to my college years, in 2019 I was a junior in college. Without trying to sound over dramatic, I was on the verge of being happy and well-adjusted for the first time in my life. I had never dated or been in a relationship before (I’m male) and I was just starting to date / talk to women, had friends, was enjoying my classes, looking forward to things, and then as soon as I got just a *taste* of happiness, the covid thing happened and I was basically put under a form of house arrest, or solitary confinement for 2 years while my university went fully remote. My social life collapsed instantly and I went into a period of severe depression and suffering. I actually fared better than some of my friends, because about 50% of them dropped out of college during this period. I at least pushed through and graduated. My life never returned to what it was. I started a new job a few months ago; a sucky job as basically a telemarketer making 40K. And i developed some type of insomnia / sleep disorder during the pandemic. It’s 2 AM as I write this. Basically the point of this rant is… is there a light at the end of this tunnel? Does anyone else relate to this? I’m about to be 25, never been in a relationship, no social life whatsoever, and all I do now is wake up, work a sucky job, go home, and do nothing on the weekends. where do I go from here?