What can I say?

What can I say when nothing seems to work, when the means that I have to try to achieve a certain goal: a better life, aren't working? I just don't know. Try to don't fall into despair. Not fall into sadness. Trying to be positive, as I was sayin' before. But not...over and over, all the things that I have done are marked with failure. What is the point on being good, what's is the point on listening to your parents and elders, to do what is supossed to be "right"?. Everyday in my life, yesterday, today, I see that pointless and fruitless...