When do you realize that you wasted your life?

How do you know that you wasted your life? You have been to different places in the world, served in the military,raised children,.helped people, and generally never purposely hurt anyone, and never held a grudge. But,..late in life find yourself alone and nearly penniless?

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Specialyouare · 31-35, F

I think there are different points in our life where we have a wake up call and we realize we were living a fantasy of what they told us the world to be vs what it actually is.

Justsomeguy65 · 51-55, M

@Specialyouare I think the wake call occurs when at some point you realize that so many people seriously do not care about the fellow person. And you find that many of the basic premise you have been assuming to be correct,..are not so.

Specialyouare · 31-35, F

@Justsomeguy65 That is exactly right! It is almost like we’ve been living a fantasy and we wake up and realize none of it was real.