Does anyone on here enjoy life?

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I am 22 and it feels that life only gets worse as we get older. The best days of my life were when I was a kid. There will never be a time period of my life that will be as good as my childhood was. I hate changes and the unfamiliarity. I feel like I have no direction or no path. I hate growing up and getting older. I have very few friends here and there and I feel like I have no place in this world. Everyone around my age think that I am creepy and never want me around. I have trouble interacting with people my own age so I come across as weird. I keep aging when I feel like I am a teenager. Life just is not fun anymore and I don't know if it ever will be. I have nothing to look forward to and I don't know what the future holds. I am getting sick of life and I don't know if it will get any better.

I have days when I enjoy life very much, and other days where it all feels 'ugh'. (My 20's were absolutely awful, so I understand that feeling all too well!) Most days I'm pretty happy though.

I've been through a lot of ups & downs over the years, but the hard times do tend to get better if you can just survive them!

I never thugt I'd live to be older than 25, having been depressed as a child and teenager. but actually, part of my twenties were really really good. now it's down again, but I assume at some point it might go up- I didn't expect it the last tiem, ... maybe I shouldn't bet on it this time, but hey... one thing I learned through this recent crisis of mine: change is good, when you're in control. While things are changing, aim for the result that sounds the best to you.

oh, also: I think people stay teenagers, mentally, for the rest of their lives. you don't get to see it if you only interact with people professionally, as in, your boss, or so.
but I have some friends, and they're having kids, and their fears and aspirations are still the same. No one has a clue. that's why 60 year olds can still be in need of religion and fictituous attachement figures. because people never actually grow up, but they learn to act like it.
yet, they marry the wrong people, they are unhappy, they get divorced and lose all their money in ill-considered business ventures. they run for president on a class-clown-show and they dream of becoming famous one day. it'll stay the same. but you can change your position in this charade (become an expert in something)
or choose to withdraw from it and pursue other things, like henry david thoreau.

The older I get, the more I enjoy life. I was miserable growing up, so I can't relate to people that idolize childhood.

Me too.

Me, three. I was scared and lonely as a kid, clinically depressed as a teenager. Then I joined the Navy and found myself in a job I could be really good at. That did wonders for my self-esteem. The following decades had their ups and (minor) downs, but on the whole I would describe myself as very happy, especially now that I have a family.

good for you. Interestingly, Naval Officer popped up on some career aptitude tests I once took. Never enlisted though...

I have mixed feelings about being older as my childhood was not pleasant and lead to the host of problems I have now. However, all the changes and responsibilities of adulthood can pile up and bring me down at times. It's hard work taking care of myself sometimes.

One of the regrets I have is not doing some things because I believed I was now too old. Don't let that happen and never give up. There will be dark days but if you push forward and find your direction you can have a lot of good days as well.