What do you do when your empire crumbles around you? What happens when everything you've worked on has meant nothing?

Say, you take a vacation. Not any roadtrip crap vacation, one to an exotic, strange land filled with nothing you know about but are dying to learn. It's something you can only do once, since your friend is inviting you since he'll be leaving there after a nasty divorce. You get the time off work, even though a store is closing to go on this once-in-a-lifetime vacation. And you deserve it. You've never missed a day of work. You have to live with an absolute b*tch 19 hours a week. You DESERVE it.

So, you take the vacation. Nearly perfect, it is.

And when you get back, what do you have? No job. You took the vacation, the store is closed, and now the only wing left of the company is overstaffed. Lovely. To make things better, you are completely broke. You go on unemployment and donate plasma to scrape together some money. The plasma donation hurts, and you struggle just to stay on unemployment.

Then you hit a parked car. No worries, right? She charges the insurance. Your mom pays for the whole thing and expects money back. So now you are in debt, without a job, broke, and did I mention your previous employer hates you? Good luck getting another job.

And to make things bad to worse, that friend you went to Germany with is seeing someone else, before the divorce is final. He spends hours chatting with her. No big deal right? Until your only friend cancels any plans of moving into an apartment with you in favor of living with her.

So, what do you do when you are at wit's end? When you have lost everything that made you happy and gave your life meaning?

The only thing keeping you from ground zero is a hope. A hope that the girl at the game store actually likes you (because you know you like her), and fills you with a giddy happiness, unlike what you've felt before. Sometime soon you'll ask her on a date, hoping to God she'll say yes.

And if she says no....

I don't want to think about it.

Is this about you? Probably is, but I'd rather have it clear.

Yes.

My life has taken a rather sour turn of events.

Although the suicide thoughts vanish fairly quickly.

I don't wish good luck because we all know luck is unreliable. ^^

I wish you Good Health instead.

[spoiler]Not sure if you want advice? I guess not. If you do, the only true thing I can tell you is don't be apathetic and do something. Only by relieving stress through action can you think clearly.[/spoiler]

About the girl, if it doesn't work out, it's not the end of the world. The one thing most guys don't understand is that they have options. There is an abundance of women. Don't let one person determine your life.

Well at least this post is a step in the right direction. You are asking others what they would do (rhetorically if not actually) and many others have been or will be in a similar boat someday.

Now you are free to focus.

priority one is fixing yourself. chicks know when a guy is desperate, they dont want that kind of baggage. start looking for a job hard core, even if you have to take a low paying one just to get by while you search. next, fix your own life, take a breather from the circuit. maybe go out clubbing after youve found a job - pair down your standard of living to the bare bones to keep you afloat.

once you get a job you can begin restoring your confidence in yourself, and that is the first step to getting a chick. 99% chance says that chick at the store wont date you, she probably gets hit on many times a day anyway. dont hang yourself on an impossibly thin thread, just bite the bullet and focus on yourself - everything else will come with time.