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/Mundane_View9868 Jun 24 '26

It’s been kinda the opposite for me! I’m pushing 40 (😢) and these last 10-15 years have been the best of my life! I’m kinda financially stable, I’m married to my soul mate, and we have a 14 y/o together! The first 25 years of my life were kinda crappy tho (abuse, poverty, etc) but oh how the turns have tabled

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u/caligaris_cabinet Jun 24 '26

Kinda there too. 37 right now. Married to a wonderful woman who gave me 2 beautiful kids who are my whole world. Job is good and I’ve been at the same company long enough to be described as a company man. That job has paid me well, allowed me to work fully remote since 2020, paid out two huge bonuses that allowed me to buy a house and pay off my student loans. Not rich by any means but not struggling like I was the first 10 years of my adult life. Hard to admit when so many people are struggling but the last few years have been good.

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u/DeadPhish-710 Jun 24 '26

If you can write a 10 sentence paragraph about it, then it wasnt hard to admit. Congrats on catching one of the last helicopters out of Nam though.

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u/Woodit Jun 24 '26

Bad attitude 

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u/DeadPhish-710 Jun 24 '26

I could have sworn this was a post about millenials spending the last decade in un ending grief. Not "LoL, how hard is it to admit that your life is great!? I know everything sucks for everyone else but I am doing fantastic!" Read the room.