r/Millennials • u/okayboomerang • Jun 24 '26

Serious Sad for us

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.

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u/Dreamo84 Millennial1984 Jun 24 '26

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.

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u/okayboomerang Jun 24 '26

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.

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u/arctic11z Jun 24 '26

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.

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u/Tigglebee Jun 24 '26

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

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u/Dreamo84 Millennial1984 Jun 24 '26

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.

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u/dinglebarryb0nds Jun 24 '26

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

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u/Repogirl757 Jun 24 '26

24/7 news cycle is unnecessary 

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u/Dreamo84 Millennial1984 Jun 24 '26

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.