Recently I've been thinking about my future and reminiscing on my past. Needless to say, it's left me in tears. I'm stressed about what I'm gonna do with myself and regretting decisions and missed opportunities.
I'm left with two options, and neither of them are viable to me; Go to college or stay home and work. None of my emails have been answered, and I don't have any of my bursary applications complete because I'm missing a SIN number and some documents. I'm supposed to go to college in 3 weeks and I'm not ready. Even if I went, I'm going into a program I'm not really interested in. I did my application because my high school said so, and I didn't want to disappoint my parents.
There was a music program I wanted to enroll in, but it requires an audition (no way I'm passing it at my skill level) and it's in a different college that's further away and probably doesn't have the aforementioned scholarships I was supposed to apply for. Ugh.
If I stay home, I'll have to work and pay my parents for rent/food/etc. as soon as I'm 18 (in about 6 months). The whole reason I was excited about the prospect of going to college is so I can have a taste of independence/adulthood and, most importantly, get away from my family. I don't hate them and they're not terrible people in retrospect, but I'm getting tired of being around them.
Also, I feel like I've wasted my teenage years. I was so focused on just trying to get past high school, I completely disregarded everything else I should've done. I don't have a job, a driver's license, a credit card, or a bank account like a lot of my classmates did. It made me feel inadequate and useless, but I wasn't ready to do any of that. Regarding stuff I wanted to do... I failed in that aspect, as well. I didn't build meaningful friendships (I gave up on that early on in high school) and I didn't master any of my hobbies.
Even with everything that happened (my less-than-stellar mental health, the deaths of various family members, etc.), I still feel like I didn't properly utilize my time, and I'm stuck in a limbo of "I'm useless and don't know what to do with my life". I'm not even a legal adult yet. I don't want to worry about all this, but here I am.