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I’ve heard that you should try to do the things that you liked as a kid, but when I was a child I wasn’t really allowed to be anything except an extension of my parents (sorry not trying to trauma dump). Now I’m turning 21 and I realize that I don’t and have never really had much that I’m truly passionate about. Being certain of myself and exuding that is always something that I thought I was. Subsequently, without that, I feel very lost. Dressing, speaking, decorating my room, joining clubs, etc were all things that I tried to do in whatever image I felt I wanted to be/was at that time in my life. Almost to the point of sort of turning myself into a character. Now I realize that I was doing just that and I feel like a totally blank slate in terms of what I actually like and who I actually “am”. I‘m in college, but feel no connection to my major and have no idea what career path I actually want to go down that doesn’t seem totally unrealistic, I have no hobbies that I love, I don’t really feel drawn to any styles or clothing that I used to enjoy nor new trends that I see on others. I have always been the person who played every sport, tried every club, and wore a new style every week, but nothing ever really stuck and now I just feel sort of empty. I know a lot of young adults go through something similar, so I thought I would ask what you all do in times when you feel lost or uninspired?

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