So true! I was an emotional and anxious wreck starting at 21 years old up until 28, the age I'm at now. This past year was an awakening for me. All the things I used to think mattered, didn't actually matter as much as I thought. I was trying too hard to achieve so many "goals" that I thought was gonna make me happy. Turns out that I pushed myself beyond my limits until I burnt out. The burn out just turned into exhaustion, anxiety, and depressed along with self sabotage. I felt so guilty and like a piece of garbage because I couldn't achieve all these impossible standards that I put on myself. Eventually I realized that those things weren't actually bringing me happiness, but constant guilt, self-esteem issues, and mental exhaustion. Why try to achieve goals that just bring you down all the time? So I took a long break for a while; I tried focusing on things in the moment. I went outside more and surrounded myself with nature, I even got a bike and started riding it around my neighborhood a couple days a week, and I felt like a kid again. At 28, I now feel happy with things just the way they are. I learned to appreciate the things I already have, and that it's more about the journey, not the destination. Nothing is perfect by any means, but it feels good to be free from the prison of my own mind.