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Millennially Speaking
The world is a horrible place. People are
awful. Society is cruel. Institutions are evil.
Bureaucracies are hurtful. Corporations are
leeches. Democracy is failing. Healthcare costs
your life savings. The planet is too hot but
politicians pretend like it's not. Greed is what
keeps us spinning, but 99% of us aren't winning.
My cynicism is so concrete it all feels
helpless. Anxiety is so strong I'm heavily
medicated. Depression has become my main
personality. Work is demanding, sometimes
demeaning, sure doesn't pay enough. I'd go
to college to get a degree, to better myself,
but sometimes I can't even feed myself.
Exhaustion is constant. Fantasy is my only
friend. I'm ready for all this to end.
It's hard to have hope. Change can't coexist
as apathy amasses around us. Maybe it is
time to tear it all down, before it all
collapses. I used to think love was the
answer. Now I'm not sure if there is one. I
don't know what to do. I probably never did.
Suffering seems to be my only currency. I'm
tired of running in the red. Tired of my bed
being the only place I feel okay. Tired of all
the ugliness in my head. Tired of all the
ugliness in everyone else. Tired of just being.
Is this what life is supposed to be?
You nailed the overdrive nature of millenial living
This is a power-packed, overwhelmed volume that fits the title to the T, at least of all I have seen.
Unplug. I promise you it's as good a piece of advice you're going to get. We are but small creatures in a large world. We are not made to be absorbing thousands of opinions (mostly parroted, anyway) and problems each and every day of our lives. For most of human history, it could take a whole lifetime to absorb all of the disasters we fit into a month. Unplug. The internet shouldn't be at the center of your life, because the internet is full of chaos. If you put it at the center of your life, you put chaos at the center of your life. Take the social media and newsfeeds away (or at least use it a lot less), and you'll feel a lot calmer.
The other piece of advice I would like to offer, if you're willing to hear it, is to be more forgiving of other humans. I have felt the same frustrations about the quality of humankind as you and many millenial people have, and I'm not even a millenial. But while everyone is flawed and we are certainly not on the right track as a human race, most people have redeemable features. Many are pretty decent people who just don't know better (just as there are things we don't realize that we don't know).
Unplug. Forgive. And I think the other commenters have some pretty darn good advice of their own, as well ; )
P/s If I didn't say it already, this was well written.
But you, you are so
But you, you are so beautiful. A healing grace pouring out from within hugss x
Don't let any one shake your dream stars from your eyes, lest your soul Come away with them! -SS
"Well, it's love, but not as we know it."
No, it is not. For myself,
No, it is not. For myself, chair-bound by a spinal injury that my own body imposed on itself, I have found that these larger problems that seem unsolvable and insurmountable, only impede my enjoyment of the time left to me. I do what I can to make my immediate environment better, or enjoyable, and try to protect it from the invasion of fears that are very often promoted by the endlessly broadcasting news cycle. What I can do about the world's vast problems is little; what I can do about my own, within my own environment (such as is it), is, for me, the larger opportunity and one I attempt to appreciate to the maximal degree.
Starward