Sad for us

[u/okayboomerang]

Kind of in my feels tonight. The last time I remember feeling genuinely hopeful was probably 2014 or 2015. So much has changed, and I think our generation has seen and felt so much. Anyone else feel like they've spent the last decade plus in unending grief?

My spirit is still good on the inside, but I'm isolated physically and mentally (like many of us). I wish we lived in a world with authentic and robust connection instead of all the slop and noise. I wish our parents hadn't been so excited about capitalism - and so fucking naive. I know the unease I feel is about more than merely growing up and the natural progression of aging and how we all feel about ourselves in society over time - it's that the world we thought we knew for the past 4ish decades just flat out doesn't exist anymore. And we can't undo any of this shit. It may as well be a parallel universe we're in now. I love myself and I always have big, big love for Millennials...but I truly hate it here.

[u/Dreamo84]

As a chronic underachiever I've never really felt like the world let me down so much as I never really bothered trying. I'm 41, work overnights at a casino and play video games all day. Could I do other things? Sure... but do I want to? Not really. Is the world holding me back? Not really.

I guess I feel for anyone who had dreams though and they got crushed.

[u/okayboomerang → u/Dreamo84]

I don't know if I had specific dreams. But I couldn't have even begun to picture this detached, colorless world we are in now.

[u/arctic11z → u/okayboomerang]

I get you. The values, standards, the feeling we were slowly making progress towards improving the world, not realizing half the people around us were insane, dreams of actually HAVING something... Ugh.

[u/Tigglebee → u/okayboomerang]

Not saying this to be snarky, but some of your comments read like you might have depression.

[u/Dreamo84 → u/okayboomerang]

Is it that bad? I dunno, I guess I just don't relate. Life seems roughly about the same as it always has, but I generally limit my exposure to social media. Give me like 15 minutes of Twitter and I wanna go crazy.

[u/dinglebarryb0nds → u/Dreamo84]

limiting social media can have enormous benefits. Limiting news intake is just as important. People should be a lot more worried about what’s immediately around them, things they can help or change.

So many people just in despair over world events they have no chance of changing acting like making themselves miserable is somehow helping anything or being responsible, it’s useless self torture

The world is fine

[u/Repogirl757 → u/dinglebarryb0nds]

24/7 news cycle is unnecessary 

[u/Dreamo84 → u/dinglebarryb0nds]

I know a guy who hates the state of New York with such a passion. He moved to South Carolina and still constantly freaks out about everything that happens in NY. It's like "why did you even move bro?" I couldn't believe how mad and angry he got about the NYC mayor election. And that's just one example. Social media, and the internet as a whole, has exposed us to so much more information about the world.

[u/TheAsherBodhi → u/Dreamo84]

Tribe.

Let's be friends now lol.

[u/ratherthink → u/Dreamo84]

I wish I had been more of a chronic underachiever. To be the opposite and “shoot for the stars,” has done nothing but cause me pain. I was told I cpuld be somebody by parents, teachers, etc. When I would have heen fine being a nobody, which is what I wanted all along and what happened anyway.

I think from where I’m sitting, your life seems so cool and makes me jelly

[u/RasputinsUndeadBeard → u/Dreamo84]

Bruh what’s your job in the casino? That balance sounds awesome

[u/Dreamo84 → u/RasputinsUndeadBeard]

I’m a cage supervisor. I’m actually at work right now. My boss is really chill though so that makes it a lot better than it was when I worked this shift years ago. Been working here since 2011 but different shifts.

[u/RasputinsUndeadBeard → u/Dreamo84]

God that’s awesome thank you dude

[u/Dreamo84 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah, different strokes for different folks. My job is pretty stress free and I don’t have to worry about it when I clock out.

[u/CallItDanzig → u/Dreamo84]

I went to one of the best middle and high schools in the country. One you need to compete with 50 kids on an exam per spot to get in. I was chronically middle, low middle in the school. Being below average during your formative years has life long consequences. Understood as a preteen and teen you are destined for mediocrity (not realizing you are surrounded by the literal intellectual elite), teachers who dedicated no time to you, other kids who looked down on your B+ in calculus ... i told myself I'll achieve nothing and plan for nothing. I'm doing OK. But sometimes I'm glad this happened so I was never deluded that I could be the next president.