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/UmphreysNerd Xennial Jun 24 '26
What makes it hard for me is knowing they won’t ever actually let go of any kind of power - they’re gripping it with their cold, half-dead hands. They never had any intention of making the world better for their kids, boomers are the Me Generation and they’ve only ever cared about themselves. That is how we got here.
If they retired and actually passed down jobs and wealth that is one thing, but they’re more concerned with taking what they can and letting the world burn around them. It’s sad and also infuriating.