I think thats a lot to do with why ppl don't kill them self when there unhappy. (The fear of hell)
I am only a bit older then you and I still think of my self as young. So you got lots of time for things to change. If am 32 and your 26 and I still think am young and have a chance of meeting some good friends and who knows maybe a GF then you have moor time then me.
But I do know when your feeling down its prity crap watching the rest of the world have fun why your stuck in again with nothing to do, Sept watch the world go by like an 80 year old.