You have close friends who give you unconditional support and love you. Your family is your best critic and motivates you to become better each time. You excel in school and are a driven student. So what could possibly be missing? Why do you not feel whole?

It's one of the moments when you take a look around and wonder how you could feel so alone in a crowded room. Or why you only get a few moments of happiness before it goes away. Like the time you got first place at a competition and woke up the next morning semi-excited, then not at all. Or when you were jumping out of your skin when getting honor roll, but forget about it a week later. There is so much to be happy about yet not exactly, all at the same time.

Are you missing true love? Are you missing confidence? Are you missing a purpose?

It sucks feeling incomplete and wanting more out of life when you've basically got it all. Isn't that enough? Does this make me ungrateful? The only way to prevent from feeling this way is asking yourself the most important question. Who am I doing all of this for?

If the answer isn't yourself, then you're doing it all wrong. You shouldn't be doing anything for anyone other than yourself. It's not selfish, it's ideal. Why do you think flight attendants tell you to put on your oxygen mask first before assisting another person? It doesn't make sense to help others when you have nothing to give. If you don't know how to love yourself, how do you have love to give? If you don't work hard for yourself, how do find the energy to help others? It all starts with you.

Therefore, if you aren't happy for yourself and find it from within, you can't expect that having everything will make you happy either. You can lose friends, you can lose family, grades won't matter thirty years later in your life. So make sure you take the time for yourself to find something you can hold onto, that no one can take away from you.

You can have friends, you can have family, you can have grades, you can have a great job, you can have a prestigious degree, but this whole time, maybe the thing you were missing was you.