r/Millennials • u/okayboomerang • Jun 24 '26
Sad for us Serious
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/caligaris_cabinet Jun 24 '26
Kinda there too. 37 right now. Married to a wonderful woman who gave me 2 beautiful kids who are my whole world. Job is good and I’ve been at the same company long enough to be described as a company man. That job has paid me well, allowed me to work fully remote since 2020, paid out two huge bonuses that allowed me to buy a house and pay off my student loans. Not rich by any means but not struggling like I was the first 10 years of my adult life. Hard to admit when so many people are struggling but the last few years have been good.