Why do I feel like I won't live past 21?

[Anonymous]

What purpose is there to life and what is the point if I am going to die in the end? Why do I always have this nagging feeling like I shouldn't be alive?

[Roarke]

nagging or not, your thought process is quite natural, particularly if you are an analytical thinker who takes any idea they can down to its logical conclusion. i found in my life that such 'fatalistic' thinking began around 17 and wound up by my mid-20', and even then it wasn't pervasive. It would just crop up when i had time to think and not a lot of distractions.

As someone below this comment suggested, yes we all die in the end, but how long that span is can be immense. I am 57, which to you sounds like i should have died a long time ago, but as medical technology and social perceptions have changed over my life, and now being the age that my grandparents were when i was born, I can assure you i now see only people well over 80 as old.

Point is, as others have suggested, hang in there and and ride whatever waves come your way. I can't tell you the vastness of what has happened to me between your age and now, approaching 60. Along the way you will be exposed to philosophies and religions, maybe even cultural items like books, TV, movies and social media, which will guide your thoughts hither and yon but always seemingly toward a goal that is less drastic than what you feel now.

[AidenBlue]

Life is long. 21 is such a baby. You will blink and you will be 30.

Play whatever cards you are dealt the best you can. Don't fold. I think you will find your hand is much better than you think.

[Belleza2]

here is the thing, you were born into this world for a reason and that reason is for you to leave something good from yourself for this world and to feel like this lol I have been there but that was due to bullying... anyway, your here so make the best of it...

nagging feeling such as this will always haunt you because you are going to die but someday and if by any crazy chance you will not live past 21 then enjoy your life while you are still here just do not hurt anyone in the process...

just concentrate on the good for now and do not think about it just live

[PrettyBama]

Do you think you're gonna die? or kill yourself? Patsy Cline predicted her death lol

[yaddayaddayadda02]

The point is to do your best while you are here. Have you ever seen a therapist about your feelings?

[Anonymous]

The candle that burns twice as bright only burns half as long.