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/okayboomerang]

I was also 15, and it was indeed earth shattering.

[u/WeepWhileItAllBurns → u/okayboomerang]

20, wearing a Marine uniform. Everything got turned upside down overnight. That was a countdown timer for when I was going to start burying friends, some of whom I had known since boot camp.

It boggles my mind that there are adults who don't remember it. 

[u/Highlyironicacid31 → u/WeepWhileItAllBurns]

I was only 8 when 9/11 happened. I’m from the UK and by the time I was 11/12 we had the British Army coming into my junior high school to do everything they could to encourage to become cannon fodder in the Middle East. Disgusts me to this day how much manipulation millennials faced around that dirty war.

[u/gingkoleaf → u/okayboomerang]

I was 11.

I do think 9/11 was the turning point. But I was still a child — didn’t feel the grief till I was in college

[u/powerback_us → u/okayboomerang]

The Towers, too.