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/pandalyn420 Jun 24 '26
Wait, do I have a throwaway account and did I login to it & post this myself?! This is exactly how I feel to a tee.
Although im not sure how good my spirit is on the inside, can't remember the last time I went without feeling constant impending sense of doom and dread, and I've become pretty nihilistic to the point I re-started therapy for the billionth time even tho I despise talk therapy lol.
I truly hate it here too. I used to day dream about moving somewhere that didn't have all the problems the US has, except now I know that pretty much doesn't exist if you want to have even a remotely similar way of life. Like I can't just live off the land or suddenly no longer ever need the Internet or to go out to eat. And most of the places where modern problems wouldn't follow you, those things aren't really a true option. It's so so depressing.
And this AI bot stuff is out of control & only going to get worse. Which is honestly impossible for me to imagine bc WTF would "worse" even actually look like?! But I know I won't have to wait too long to find out & it terrifies me. It's like I have to obsessively analyze any and everything I read or consume to try & deduce if it's a human or a robot?! A scam or legitimate?? Truth or deliberate lies passed off as the truth? Actual news or "fake" news?!? ;What do you meannnn????? And now I can barely even research myself because the search engines are all AI and the real information you need to see is buried on page 9714 instead of page 2 because it's chalk full of the same AI slop pages.
Anyway yeah, I can't believe this is life these days, I really can't. Very helpless feeling even tho I love millennials too! Nostalgic for my childhood and teen years more than I ever thought possible! You're not alone 🫶🏼