/dep/ - Depression

What are your thoughts on the concept of missing out?

Because of depression and anxiety I spent most of my life in my room doing the same shit every day. I don't challenge myself with new experiences. I eat the same bland food every day. Sometimes I will see what's out there and I feel the pain of all the missed out experiences. But is it a real pain or imagined? After all no matter what you are always missing out on something as you can only be in one place at a time and even if you are busy 24/7 there is way more to life than you can experience in a lifetime. You could say that I can't regret the past because I did the best I was capable of at that time but I feel like a lot of the resistance to new things is more in my head and once I break the routine the pain is gone. Like starting a new video game instead of playing the same online game again takes willpower at first but once I am playing it I'm having fun and wondering why I didn't do it sooner.