8 Warning Signs You Are Wasting Your Life And Don’t Even Realize I

Deep down, you know your life is meant to be something more.

So you can’t help but wonder:

“Is this all there is to look forward to in life?”



At first, it’s just idle curiosity. But over time, that innocent little thought starts nagging — starts making you doubt what you’re doing in life. Just a little at first, and then slowly your doubt spreads. Like a disease, it contaminates all other thoughts and makes you question them too.

No longer are you so sure about what you’re doing, or the choices you’ve made, or where your life is heading.

One moment, you thought you were doing OK in life. And then the next, you are desperately trying to shake this scary thought from your head:

“What if my whole life is a waste?”

Not wasted in the dramatic sense like committing a crime and spending the rest of your life in prison. Instead, it is the insidious wasting of a life that takes place over years with many seemingly small, harmless habits and decisions. I came to realize the process of wasting your life is slow and doesn’t happen overnight, but the results are devastating.

During School days, I thought the world was my oyster. I was always pushing my limits to see where I could go next. Run for leadership positions in the Law Student Association and win? Check. Get sponsored to go on international conferences for free? Yep. Study and live in USA Been there, done that.

Fast-forward a few years, and I had “settled down.” You know, the whole 9 to 5, Monday to Friday, office routine. On top of that, I had my chill-out-after-work-in-front-of-the-TV routine. Sure, I still went out with friends, but I couldn’t help but feel my life was reduced to nothing more than a boring rerun.

Day in and day out, it was the same thing over and over again.

And then it hit me: I’m just “putting in time” now, waiting for something better to happen in life. If that’s not wasting my life, I don’t know what is.

Could the same thing be happening to you? Are you wasting your life?

Most people don’t recognize these “harmless” routines they may have fallen into, some hold unto their first class and 3rd class, so they go about their lives as if nothing bad is happening. But these routines are lethal in their tendency to waste lives if left unchecked. People often don’t realize what’s happening until it’s too late.

So unless you learn to put them into reverse now, you could very well look back on your life with regret.