As a GenX I feel pretty screwed by the previous generation as well. I was told to 'harden up', 'work hard and you'll be able to live comfortably', etc. I'm getting near forty now and have watched my chances of living as comfortably as my parents fade away into hopes of finding money buried somewhere. At least then I'll be able to buy a damn house or an apartment with a chance of paying it off before I'm too old and senile to work effectively enough to earn money. When I'm told that I should stop buying avacado on toast for breakfast, I become furious. I save everything I can and only spend money on what I can re-sell again later or invest. When I say "my stereo is broken, and no, I haven't replaced it yet" my parents assume it's because I am simply too lazy to get around to it. The fact of the matter is that I get home at 7:30 at night, make some food, and then freeze in my crappy unheated apartment as I sit under a blanket refusing to spend money on a stereo when I should be putting it into stocks or a small business or ANYTHING that will help me get ahead.
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Same age, similar experiences and perspective. Feelin' this.
Thank you @rsbosse!
Right? I think this is something that when properly articulated is actually a pretty widely spread feeling among our generation... Some will just be like "whatever just relax, chill and relax", but they're also the ones who are gonna get hit the hardest by the coming changes...
Working at H&M and McDonald's ain't a way to live a life... What to do when that's the only thing left around to do? Just keep doing that and drinking and partying for ever?
It's a trap
Haha, right?! Stopped drinking a few days ago and stopped smoking about ten days ago after too long. Not sure how long but it literally felt like a trap and was going to kill me. So I decided to take back my power. I've come to a place where even if things don't crumble living this way makes me happier. And that's what I am after nowadays. Now being happy to me isn't ignoring anything. Oh on the contrary, but for the first time in my life I feel like I am following what I am meant to do. It truly boggles me how folks can meander through the day not aware of what's happening around them but then again the average football broadcast is 3 hours long, the game itself is 60 minutes, there are actually a little over 11 minutes of actual football action played in those sixty minutes and then all throughout approximately 100 hundred commercials are broadcast.... wow. The struggle is real, but we need to keep fighting. I have kids and refuse to be complicit in handing a world worse off to them. Thanks a bunch!
Good on you!
I'm not a fan of drinking.. I gave up weed since I moved to China. I've been off it for about a year. But I still smoke cigarettes... That's my main vice these days...
Even when I feel good, am well rested, eating healthy, doing exercise... I still feel I need that "reward".. Even though cigarettes fucking suck... But I guess I still feel they bring something to my life...
Hopefully I will be able to put them down forever soon.
I periodically try to go for several days without it, and go running instead..
I think I have the right approach.. I'll get over them.
Omg your point about football lol. Forget about it!
I can't get behind the modern gladiator stuff... But then again, without hip hop and my music I'd go crazy and probably resort to stuff like that to forget...
The world is stresssful these days.. I know why people just want to stick their head under the ground like an ostrich... But that's not gonna fix anything!
Gotta keep striving!
You're welcome, and seriously, it's me thanking you!
Peace n love xx
@clasre I know right!! Baby Boomers were part of the most incredible and awesome youth movement in hundreds of years... But they got corrupted... They were simply bought out by the system, and convinced to send their kids into the meat grinder... And once they had so much to lose, they were afraid of reverting to a world like before WW2. They were shocked by their parents in many ways... But they forgot so much about how the world actually is... They just thought they knew everything... And acted recklessly...
Whatever, what is done is done.
And of course some of the Baby Boomers were absolute fucking legends... There's no doubt.
Really really inspiring individuals came from that generation.
But as things progressed, it all got a bit out of control I suppose... And this article is really just a psychological experiment at expressing the psychic energy, more than anything else. My parents were baby boomers, and this is honestly something I would feel ready to confidently say at their face at this age.
I totally agree with everything you said...
Oh and keep buying your avocadoes lol. It's a crime how they are pricing them, but we have to keep eating them! They're too frickin' good!
I also hope you will get a new stereo soon!
Get your money into crypto first, and then get your stereo! Hahaha :)
Thanks for stopping by and reading! <3
Xx
I thoroughly appreciated, enjoyed and valued your rant :)
How easy would life be if everybody my age was completely connected through private cryptocurrency, and knew how to use it to conduct all of the affairs of daily life.
This is the way forward. We must wake up now and take over or it's never.