From your perspective, how can a person thoroughly screw-up his/her life?

If you come off as too different in society, you will be deemed to be so worthless by others that you will forever be denied fruitful and profitable opportunity and chances to prove that you do in fact have worth. Because we all know if there is anything society doesn't tolerate it is anything out of it's norm, what it perceives as normal. And yet society in itself is very abnormal and restrictive. Society adopts a mob mentality when anything differs from what society expects or demands. Now, it is true that people can mess up their lives royally. And it can also be said that it is true that where there is failure, there can also be hope and rebirth and redemption. That failure does not have to remain a failure. You can accept responsibility for your failure, and at the same time, work on improving it up from there to something more substantial. But here we have the intolerance and condemnation of society upon you, lashing out, demanding you be perfect, and yet society never looking within itself for all that is imperfect there. And so, a cycle of push and pull ignite ... instead of people UNITING to make things right again, the RIGHT way. Because there is so much ignorance and hatred and need in society to get even, and seek revenge, we are not moving forward in humanity at all, but sliding very downwards into a continual spiral of madness and injury. Does it have to be like that? No. But people rarely remember the saying, judge not for you do not know anyone else's life. judge thy own life for that is your only real concern.