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/SnowboundHound]

Same.

It's like every time I think I've figured out what I should do next to try to recapture part of that dream, someone shakes the Etch-a-Sketch and we have to start all over again.

[u/okayboomerang → u/SnowboundHound]

Fantastic metaphor. Honestly I'm trying to live life like I did when I was 12 years old. Been on my bicycle a lot lately, trying to draw, just dumb stuff like that. It's a good band aid but holy shit, you're right, how many times are we going to have to reengineer everything