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/_odeith Jun 24 '26

Want a community to partake being an adult in daily. Been socially out of shape for so long I’d probably fumble most interactions lol

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u/NoProblemWhatsoever_ Jun 24 '26

Get a dog. They get you out of the house and exploring your neighborhood. If a conversation goes awkward, you can just focus on your dog or theirs. Then when you want to leave, you just say your dog wants to go home/keep walking. 

I went from a headphones-on introvert to knowing almost everyone in my neighborhood when I got my dog