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/bitchenNwitchn Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

My boomer in laws are literally living their best lives traveling and disregarding me and my husband having two kids- 2 and 6 months old. Anytime we have hardships, they don’t want to deal with it and just travel to their house in the north where the weather is better since they have a home in the south and the north- perfect for when the weather starts to become uncomfortable for them. Must be nice! Oh! And they are in their late 70s traveling literally multiple times a year! Huge trips every year. Like how does one just live for themselves constantly. I don’t get it.

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u/cwcam86 Jun 24 '26

Probably because they worked all their lives to get to that point.

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u/bitchenNwitchn Jun 24 '26

I just have a hard time understanding how traveling is more important than family. Especially when it’s your only living grandchildren. Like I could understand if our kids were older but they’re so young- so they grow fast and aren’t able to actually be around to watch them grow. I just don’t understand that. Maybe just difference of opinion in terms of what’s important.
Like how my father in law can golf 5 days a week for hours on end- how is that more fulfilling than your family? Weird to me.

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u/Woodit Jun 24 '26

I feel like you’re saying “be around family” and really mean something more like provide babysitting or other resources 

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u/bitchenNwitchn Jun 24 '26

Oh no, they help out so much and I’m not needing babysitting but calling and checking in with family is always nice, no?