UtopianSoliloquies
Act 3 Scene 1
- Jan 21, 2023
- 63
I just started university this year and I've come to feel more hopeless than ever. I'm attending a relatively prestigious university right now and, due to my immigrant background, my family thinks that that means I have a bright future and a promising career ahead of me. Yet that feels about as far from the truth as anything could get. I can barely maintain a passing grade in all of my classes and there is almost no way I will be able to get my preferred major next year. Hell, even if everything goes well, the thought of having to perhaps live another 60 years on this Earth is absolutely terrifying. I have absolutely nothing to look forward to of any magnitude in any timeframe; I've no plans with friends for the month, no goals I want to achieve in the year, and I shudder at what is to come in the next decade. When I look at the past, it's nothing but a string of failures—a record of me fumbling through every facet of life whilst receiving a few wholly undeserved strokes of good luck. My life in the current moment is nothing but monotonous motions repeated day to day, lined with minor stresses made unbearable by the absence of anything that might make life worth living. The future is just a Sophie's Choice between a serviceable income made through forsaking any possible joy in life and poverty. Just how the hell do people find anything but tedium and misery in this life? What kind of incomprehensible headspace must the average person be in the view suicides as a surprising occurrence? I have no reason to live but I've also not made as many preparations in terms of letters and deciding who will receive my belongings as I would like yet to fully commit to CTB. God, I hate it here.