Getting to Know Oneself

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I'll do my best to formulate a post that's intelligible and coherent, but there's a lot on my mind tonight. I feel adrift.

I'm 28 and I'm currently at an impasse in my life. I'm fortunate in that I'm employed--I have a nondescript office job at a university--as I know many people my age, some younger and some older that are less fortunate circumstances. For instance, my best friend graduated college cum laude from a prestigious university and he hasn't had a job since, save for temp work. He's thinking of going to medical school but, he has Low-Testosterone and it poses all sorts of life problems for him. I am not without my own health problems, however.

Without further ado, I feel like I have somehow lost myself since graduating high school and somewhere in college I became a lesser facsimile of myself. In effect, I am lost and I am stuck.

I can feel this post drifting into that typical existential angst/despair post you see late at night. I won't try to blame external factors for my life's situation. I just don't feel my life should be this way. I haven't been derelict in my choices and I have tried to be attentive to my decisions as possible. Here are some questions that come to mind...

>How does one find one's life's work?
>How does one earn a happy life?
>Are middle-class aspirations dead? Home-ownership? Marriage? A family? A yearly vacation?
>How does one find oneself?