General Sadness of the State of the World
Hi, I'm a 24f and I just graduated university in May and have been living with my parents looking for apartments in a new city. I'm am lucky to have some privileges as a white, middle class girl and I am incredibly thankful for that. But I'm also incredibly saddened by the state of the world constantly, be it the environmental state, the economic state, and all the other isms, and systems of oppression.
To take a moment to be a little selfish, I'm seeing it heavily as I try to find an apartment in the city. I am feeling sad and hopeless as I look because it feels like my standards are way too high - but to me, they feel like basic things that people should have - like a stove, enough space to have more than just a bed and desk, and a little natural light for my plants. But as I look, I'm coming across many places outside of my budget that lack even these basic things. I understand your 20s are about "roughing it" but, with the state of the world, the increasing basic living costs and the fact that the future is completely uncertain due to climate change and capitalism - I'm finding it incredibly hard to feel like I'll even be able to live the way I want in the future. It doesn't help that I'm constantly told by my parents and other generations that they paid for their entire education themselves or had to work 3 jobs to afford a house, etc.
I know there really isn't any solutions to this problem and will have to lower my standards for housing and living, but after working so hard in high school and university and being promised I'm working towards something - I'm burnt out and it feels like I'm not gaining any of the rewards of my hard work.
Maybe I've just thrown myself a huge pity party, but thank you for listening none the less. For others who struggle with these feelings as well, what do you do to give yourself more hope and stop feeling like everything sucks?
Thank you for listening.
@AutumnHarvest it a pity party at all. The hope I see is that we can’t predict everything. Things do change and sometimes for the better. Have faith in what you don’t know while at the same time being honest. And it honestly does really suck right now.
@PineTreeTree I meant, it’s *not* a pity party at all
@AutumnHarvest
Hello! I just wanted to share with you what I once heard, and what brought a kind of relief to me: "There are many of us".
I think it is good while being a young woman you have a fresh insight, instead of accepting the old rules without questioning, and starting to take part in a rat race.
It seems we've got enough of these already: The risk of WWIII starting almost any time. Mass poverty, while enormous amounts of money are devoted to drugs and bombs. Hunger, while lots of food are dumped everyday by "civilized" societies. Pollution, with thousands of people flying to the other end of the world "just for fun", unaware of the effects it makes. People often believing they are gods, but lacking any long-term values, behaving with no moral code, sometimes worse than animals. Last but not least, the middle class vanishing, with the capitalism as an ever-hungry predatory snake, well on its way to bite off its tail.
To make the matters worse, we are in short supply of real leaders, with dozens of political or corporate fake prophets. There are no more Martin Luther Kings, Abraham Lincolns, John Lennons... Not believing in any God, we are starting to believe that only Aliens or AI may save us from ourselves.
But the good news is every change needs time. It sometimes takes a small changes in thousands of people's minds to make a "butterfly effect" and make this world take another turn, towards peace, wisdom and prosperity.
It's good to be with you onboard this project! 😊
Let's do the small things and persevere. There is hope.
@AutumnHarvest Hey, i feel you so much. im 24f too, and share the worries you have. its very hard to see the starte of the world, with so many bad influeces, division of the peolpe, having so many conflicts at once and being aware whats going wrong in the Worng (which i feel like is important, especially when im in a privileged situation) can be so frustrationg. cause realisticlay we have little to no influence in the big happenings in the world, i i have to accept things for the moment, which i cant and dont want to accept.... its so frustration.
i dont really have a solution for that, sometimes it makes me really sad, but what helps me at least a little bit is to try and focus on the positive (mindblowing ik lol). like not only see whats going wrong, alsthough we tend to focus on that, but also try and see positive movements. like acticists, (small) political descisions/currents/people, seeing the majority of the people who have good beliefs. also i think theres a lot of hope in our and even the younger generation.
But ofc. that doenst solve the problems magically... it is what it is i guess and we have to be ocay with the small changes we can make
