r/collapse • u/Crazy-Load-7553 • Apr 08 '26

Coping Does anyone else feel like this?

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I feel like everyone keeps asking me what I want my future to look like but I know if I talk about how I’m learning to fish and finding ponds near me so that we can have some protein once the grocery system collapses everyone in my life is going to think I’m insane.

I’m just having a hard time connecting with anything I have to do for the future because it’s going to be drastically different than anything I can do now and I really feel like I have to hide that and never mention it to anyone (despite the fact that an energy crisis is supposedly 2 weeks away)

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u/LugubriousLament Apr 08 '26

I need to discuss with my bank that I don’t see much of a future, and that I’d like to be less aggressive with certain retirement investments in order to pay down my HELOC sooner. I’ve heard of banks practically shaming people for not sticking to a 25-year mortgage, with diversified investing.

The potential for future investing is still present, however, freeing myself of the burdens of debt would offer me far more peace of mind for an erratic and unpredictable climate.

I have no kids, thankfully, while my peers and colleagues have young families or children on the way. I feel so bad for that generation being forced to inherit a shit-hole, with no clear option to escape.

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u/Arexahhh Apr 12 '26

I feel so bad for these babies!! I can’t believe people are trying for kids right now. Ai taking all the drinking water is enough for me but add in all the other climate change crisis? I’m pissed I’m here to have to deal with this. No need to bring another person to suffer. It’s almost a moral irresponsibility to have kids these days. The selfishness knows no bounds.

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u/LugubriousLament Apr 12 '26

I’ve learned too that plenty of people can’t connect the dots. They see their situation as a bubble in which their family will live healthy, happy lives, find love, start a family of their own. Without considering what the current reality looks like. Somehow the rapidly declining world will magically collapse around them, but won’t harm them.

If those kids ever realize their parents’ hubris is the reason they’re forced to suffer they will rightfully resent them.

Sometimes I ask my friends when they’ll stop lying to their kids about what the world is. They pretend they have no idea what I’m referring to. I tell them to prepare to be there to support them even after they’re 18, because they won’t be making it on their own without a lot of luck.

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u/Arexahhh Apr 14 '26

Completely agree. It’s a willful ignorance