A year or two ago I remember coming across a guy who flew across the US to meet up with a girl that he's liked for years who was now finishing up her PhD program. Not sure if you're still around, but hoping things worked out for the best for you. I remember last time you wrote on here things ended on an ambiguous but positive note.

Meanwhile nothing happened with me. I wasn't able to meet up with her the couple of times I came back to visit my state, and our chats slowly started to fizzle out. My gut is telling me she's with someone else now. Part of me is happy for her cause I do like her and wish her the best... but another part of me has that "what if I was braver and asked her out" though.

I'm 24 now and still I can't believe it. I remember coming here at 16/17/18 and 24 feeling like it’s so far away. I had such high hopes for this age, thinking that I’d be an adult and have things more or less figured out. Instead I feel more lost than ever. I made a long post describing what happened in my life, but reading it back it felt like nonstop complaining from my end. I just need to go ahead and work harder to build the life that I would want living instead of this purgatory I found myself in. Cause what I'm doing right now isn't living.