Best years of my life behind me?

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So I just turned 24, which means I'm a year away from 25. I just graduated college, which is good. But I haven't found a job in my field yet, my girlfriend and I just broke up, and I'm moving back in with my parents temporarily. I have some goals in mind but I'm not sure I can achieve them. I'm a third of the way into my life and I'm feeling like I haven't accomplished much, and that I've wasted the prime years of my life.

Do any of you feel like this?

Ohh yeah. I know this feeling.

Maybe it's because we actually haven't accomplished anything!.
I mean, school-systems teaches you with the same stuff, over and over again. That isn't necessarily bad, but they do it in so many years, that you actually just waste time.
I think it's because they want people to become "adults" before going on with job.

There's alot of pros and cons about this.

A simple solution could be to teach something new when you age (Cause they are bad at this!).
Or even better, try teaching in another way, so it doesn't become borring.
That way, more people would actually also learn from it.

I feel the best years of my life are gone, and that the next few years must be used in trying to fix all that has happened in these 24 years of mine. Whether all those opportunities I missed will ever come again, I guess not. I could not make the most of them because of certain circumstances.

I guess now I'm just trying to mend my life, and try to live as peacefully as possible. If anything worthwhile happens, then great. If not, well what can you do????

Yes, I turn 25 in just 3 short months and I already feel that my youth is disappearing fast. I'm still in college, currently unemployed, and have had no girlfriend ever in my life. People tell me I will some day but by the time I do I won't be young anymore!

The thought of turning a quarter century old makes you look at your age and life differently. I never really got to enjoy my youth and now I feel it slipping away.......

Will turn 33 this year; my best years are ahead.


M.

Best years behind you? No, not really.

And i have a NT friend (Scored low on the AQ test) who was > 30 before he found his first permanent jobb. Just keep trying.

Well...I don't know of many people who like growing old---me included---but...it happens.

I used to worry about getting older because I felt like my life was slipping away.

Then...just before my dreaded 40th birthday I had back surgery---got a blood clot in my leg---and had a near fatal pulmonary embolism at the age of 40 (shortly after the surgery). To get out of the hospital alive changed my life. I still don't like getting older, but I don't let it bother me as much.

Then...at 44 (my current age) I was diagnosed with Asperger's. Honestly, I was happy to get the diagnosis because it helped explain my eccentric life. I now knew why I was the way I was. So now I have adopted a new motto for my life, "My journey has just begun." I truly feel that way. I have started a new thing in my life---a music ministry on my dulcimers. So I am looking at my future as a new beginning, with new understandings, and enjoying it. I hope I can continue to enjoy it.