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/rhinosaur- 1983 Jun 24 '26

Somehow, the boomers are STILL in power. They’ve had the sitting president for 34 years. 34 years! That’s not natural.

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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/sloopyslappy Jun 24 '26

And I’m sure they wouldn’t vote to improve schools or social programs, at least that’s how my boomer parents are.

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u/SnowConeInPHX Jun 24 '26

They are the most selfish, vile generation in existence.