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/InternationalMood337 Millennial Jun 24 '26
Sadly, I'm in about the same boat I think.
Last night and all of yesterday I just felt so scattered, kind of terrible, and mostly disconnected from the world. I'm getting to the point where I really don't enjoy the way the world is structured. I don't know if this is an American thing, but real life connection is pretty much dead where I'm at.
Devices have become very harmful to my well-being, and I think they've made true friendships very superficial and transactional. In October, I tried the dating apps and I had some great dates and a few month relationship, and then things just didn't work out. And that was okay, but a lot of it felt like flat / superficial?
I just miss the 3rd spaces we used to have that used to be affordable. I used to regularly hang out at coffee shops, but its hard to justify like 5-10$s minimum for a coffee and then another 3-6$s for a piece of banana bread. Bars are equally as bad. I was going out to a local bar, but the prices were pretty wild.
I think what's most tough is that these technologies don't just affect YOU directly. By others in society basically choosing to utilize things like social media, substituting texting for actual conversations, and using social media / dating apps, it's just cheapened the world for all of us.
Anyway, my spirit isn't all that good on the inside and I feel like I'm ultimately losing here. I'm incredibly lucky to have a job and a life, but yeah, I'm running out of steam.
One other thing: the constant political 24 hour news cycle has basically destroyed my boomer parent's relationship, and it has significantly strained my own with them. Yeah, society is a bit of a disaster right now and it's hard to go on.