Ask HN: How do you overcome feeling completely lost in life?
My advice is this:<p>Become a different person.<p>Take your life and incinerate it. Not literally of course.<p>I mean completely change what and who you are.<p>You’re an accomplished software engineer at 30? Great. You’re done doing that.<p>Go buy a $15k trailer, get a truck, and hit the road. Stop looking at screens, only read books. Stop working a job behind a desk, find something else, or if you can afford it don’t work at all.<p>I suggest reading CrimeThInc: Days of War, Nights of Love. <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crimethinc.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;days-of-war-nights-of-love" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;crimethinc.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;days-of-war-nights-of-love</a><p>Pick up a guitar, learn to farm, meet some nomads. Do it all in another country. Break the law. Do whatever you feel like. Don’t hurt people, obviously, but you’re probably a sane enough person to not want to anyway. Learn a new language. Stop speaking your old one. I mean, really, and truly, break out of the matrix. Go to the edges of your universe, like the “Thirteenth Floor”. Get fit, dissolve your old identity. Become awesome at yoga, or weightlifting, or Jiu Jitsu.<p>You really can choose to become unstuck. Fly to Europe, buy a bike and a tent, and just go, man. Figure it out later. What’s there to be afraid of, really?