As human beings we all experience uncomfortable feelings that are hard to deal with by ourselves. It is important to understand that this is normal, and hiding these feelings only makes it harder for you to move forward and grow.
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I’m Adam. I’m forty-seven, I’ve got a decent job, a nice house, two kids in high school, and a wife who, until recently, I thought I understood completely. For the last year, something has felt fundamentally wrong.
Once I finally got out of high school, everyone told me that college was going to be the "best four years of my life," but when I first moved into my dorm, I had never felt more isolated.
I wasn’t always surrounded by people. Most of the time I kept to myself, but there were a few in my life—friends, classmates, family—who said they cared, who told me I mattered...but I didn’t truly feel any of it.
