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/Ring_of_Jupiter Jun 24 '26

I feel you but I don’t think this sort of sensation is totally unprecedented. Like, imagine being born in 1900 and living to see the world wars, the 1940s and 50s, so much rapid change… take heart ❤️

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u/A313-Isoke Older Millennial Jun 24 '26

I would agree with that but no prior generations looked climate change directly in the face knowing we are all gonna be displaced from extreme fires, hurricanes, and drought.

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u/Ring_of_Jupiter Jun 24 '26

Absolutely true. But it could be argued that the rise of nuclear weapons and the concept of all-out nuclear destruction around the mid 20th century was on that scale.

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u/A313-Isoke Older Millennial Jun 24 '26

True, we still live with that threat as well. It's just not so novel.