General Sadness of the State of the World

@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. 

@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

@AutumnHarvest

girl, i feel like i just read something that i needed to say for quite some time now. it's a huge relief knowing that I'm not alone in this struggle. if you'd like to complain together about this life of ours, i'd be really glad :)

(m24)

@AutumnHarvest

It's not just you. When I was your age, cheaper apartments could be found for $750 and under, and sometimes those were even two bedrooms or more. Now, I have daughters, one of which is at that age where she wants to move out, and she is having the same struggles as you. Apartments these days are more like $2,000 per month, but the average wages are not compatible. With the wage my daughter is making now, she could've afforded a nice place back in the 90s, but now she will most likely have to have at least a roommate or two just to get by financially. 

I won't get into my views on politics, but I will says this - there have been recent leaders who have (or at least seemed to) turned a very blind eye on our nation's economy, instead focusing on world problems or other issues. While I'd love to help the entire world, our country has its own, very real problems. 

You're definitely not alone. 

@AutumnHarvest It's understandable. A lot of people feel the way you do, & reasons for it are not hard to find. I think one factor is the Internet & spinoff technologies such as "social media"...tragedy & chaos have always been attractive to news sources because they're what keep eyes on screens & rack up views/subscriptions/etc. (Before the Internet Era, a common maxim among newspaper editors was "if it bleeds, it leads.") But now we get a 24-7-365 feed through our phones & laptops; no one gets a break from the news anymore. This is why you should strictly moderate your news consumption & online time, by the way.

Rather than repeat things everyone else has said here so far, let me add some context for your consideration:

• Until very recent times, the average lifespan was somewhere between 32 & 40 years. This was true throughout history, for the entire world. The long lives of citizens in affluent nations are an anomaly.
• Up to the 20th century, most women bore several children over their lifetimes. This wasn't because they loved their children (though most did, of course) but because if they had only one or two children, chances were one or both would die before reaching adulthood & so no one would continue the family line. Until modern medicine, infant mortality was always up...particularly during plagues or wartime.
• Speaking of war, today is not particularly bellicose by earlier standards. Even with modern weaponry, overall casualty counts have gone down in most instances. One historian estimated that in all of recorded history, there were 27 years when there was not at least one war being fought somewhere on the globe. Those 27 years were not all in a row, btw... A major reason for lower casualties is modern sanitation; during the American Civil War, far more Union & Confederate soldiers died from infection & gangrene than from bullets or shrapnel. You are as much a beneficiary of sanitary standards today as anyone you know.
• Capitalism has its problems, yes. But for all of that, it is still the best economic system anyone has devised for raising the standard of living, generating solutions to various problems, & making life more pleasant overall. For example, obesity & related illnesses (including heart attacks) are ubiquitous in modern nations. Even so, these issues can be fixed or at least reduced...& are a better alternative than, say, the Holodomor or the killing fields of Cambodia. (Capitalism is also one reason why there is less famine overall) While it may not make the best possible economy, I'll take insufficiently regulated capitalism over central-command socialism any day.
• As a 21st-century woman, you have rights & privileges now that your ancestors would probably have given their left arms to have. You can work outside the home, you can date whoever you want, not date at all, &/or pick your own husband or wife instead of being married off to some guy you don't even know in your mid-teens (or earlier), you are recognized as a citizen of your country instead of property to be owned, transferred &/or bought by men, etc. And you can vote. Even in the US, women didn't get the right to vote until after the turn of the (20th) century.

Now none of the above points are meant to invalidate your feelings or complaints, nor should they be taken as such. No doubt you have reasons to feel the way you do. Life is tough all over for everyone except the very rich. In every generation, people wrestled with the issues they ran into when they were starting out in life...most issues young adults face now are peculiarly modern. That's the only difference.

The point is to remember that while your life ain't easy, that is true of almost everyone alive today...& far more so of those who lived & died before you.