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i want to break free...

I am nearing 31 yrs of age ,but i dont seem to have gained the maturity. I feel will I ever grow up. During my childhood, my dad was so strict that I used to think twice before taking any decision of my own. The voice that would constantly run in my mind was what will daddy say...I had become so dependant.This is because he would watch my every move. he was so ambitious that he wanted me to be ahead in my studies always and thats why he would just want me to sit and study, study ,study...doing any other activity was not allowed... i would feel so bored sometimes but i would be scared that if i did anything else he will beat me. Even if i would be bored i would just sit in front of my book and pretend to be studying. Even after i grew up and when time had come to take my own decisions , i would be so dependant on my dad.
now he is no more, but my personality has shaped in such a way that i am not sure of the decisions i take. I am fed up of this and i have a very low selfesteem. I have become a very reserved person who feels safe in my own world. today i have very few friends but none of them is very close to me. I have had 2 failed relationships. I try hard to raise my selfesteem by trying to do something new everytime but I am not content.
I want to move ahead in my career as well. i am stuck in the same job role from a long time whereas all my friends my age have all moved way ahead of me in terms of their jobs and their personal lives as well. They have families of their own now and here i am single and miserable trying hard to move out of my current situation. but i am stuck in the same place i was about six years back. i have made no progress in my life and this is because of my low selfesteem, my negative attitude, my indecisiveness.
My condition is synonymous to a car whose tyres are stuck in a pit and no matter how much acceleration i give to the car, the wheels dont move forward but just rotate in the same place.
please can anybody help..

Story shared: 03/01/2007 12:20:15

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