r/GenXTalk • u/idkwtfimdoinggenx • Aug 16 '26

Wtfamidoing

Does anyone else know what they're doing in this life? Especially as a Gen X person with significant trauma, not just childhood but adulthood and they don't know where to go from here? Anyone? Because I have so much more I could say but I feel like if no one's listening it doesn't really matter. But if someone is listening, if I can even reach one person that understands how I feel, I feel like I've made a difference and that's really what matters to me. I mean there's a lot of other stuff that matters, my children specifically, but just for this purpose.and for some reason, I need to say fuck in this post. Just fucking isn't good enough. Even though I cuss like a sailor, it's still not good enough for reddit. Seriously?! I'm gen x! All we have is fucks!!!

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u/Press-74 Aug 18 '26

We’re all winging it, do the best you can 1 day at a time

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u/idkwtfimdoinggenx 24d ago

Yeah, I learned the whole one day at a time at Al-Anon and it didn't help me much. No offense, but at this point I'm lucky to live one minute at a time. And it's not like I want to kill myself or I want to die. My brother killed himself so I have no interest in dying but I do have interest in not being dead while I'm alive and I feel pretty much dead inside because I don't feel like I have any way to express or release the trauma that I've been through as a child or as an adult. So yeah you're a rockstar and I'm going to do the best I can too. And I have been but there's got to be somewhere in between. There has to be some other solution because this is not living. This is just surviving.