13. feeling 'too old'

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am I okay

Lucy Robb

17 episodes

8 months ago

I'm Lucy and I've had every mental health issue under the sun, I am the world's most accomplished over-thinker, and I used to hate myself profoundly. Now, I often like myself, I've had a semi spiritual awakening, and I only avoid the tube SOMETIMES. I hate that people feel shame about things that we shouldn't feel shame about - taking antidepressants, not having enough sex, having really disturbing dreams, because actually all of these things are normal. The title's an inside joke with myself and everyone I know because the one thing I'm constantly saying is: 'Am I okay?' Most likely, yes.

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13. feeling 'too old'

am I okay

42 minutes 50 seconds

1 year ago

13. feeling 'too old'

Lately I've been questioning my purpose and wondering what my true soul calling is in life - and whether that needs to be one thing or five things, and accompanying this is the feeling that I'm 'too old' to start over, I'm 'too old' to do new things, I'm too old full stop.

I'm a huge victim of excessive comparison - and I always seem to bring age into this comparison game. I look at Olivia Rodrigo and think 'GOD why wasn't I a hit singer at 17, why wasn't I a child actress?' (I'm not even good at acting so I don't know why this thought crosses my mind). I look at Amelia Dimz and think 'why didn't I write a newspaper column that would then turn into Chicken Shop Date at 19'? I look at creators on TikTok and feel frustrated that their growth is faster than mine and ultimately it makes me feel like I'm not good enough and like it's too late to do what I really want to do because I'm nearly 30 and that's when I need to have everything sorted out.

Women in this society are SO made to feel that we need to have it all figured out by 30 - we need to be stable and own a home and be on a great career path so that when we have kids they can be born into our glorious cushioned world surrounded by money and safety. I'm trying to reframe this because 1) I don't need kids at 30 and 2) LIFE DOESN'T END WHEN YOU REACH 29. Life literally is just beginning - it's only society and media and what we've been told that makes us feel otherwise. So I'm beginning to reframe it and I think it's working... kind of. So much of changing how we feel is simply about shifting our mindset & choosing to think differently - so from now on I choose to believe that my life is just beginning, I choose to believe that the sooner I start something the sooner I will have started it, and I choose to believe that 100-year-old me will be LAUGHING thinking about how old 27-year-old me thought she was.

Quit the job, go travelling, stop settling for average relationships because you're scared you won't find the one - life's too short to live a mid life.

Kisses xxxxxxx

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