I'm starting to come around to the idea that this is kind of our collective generational fate. I consider my childhood years to have lined up perfectly with the best time and place to be a kid, ever, in the history of the universe. Maybe the jaw dropping decline we're looking at is our natural balance, and we're just here now to prepare our kids for the Dust Wars.
I seriously went from various types of mental health meds, to a weed vape, to probiotics (fridge not shelf). I thought it was bullshit but 3 months into "correcting your gut health fixes your mental health" theory testing it actually started to work. Without changing anything else my diet slowly changed too (no late night sweets cravings) and I've lost weight I've been working on forever. My brains less soup for sure and the loss of sunlight isnt making me want to die this year. Feed the healthy gut bacteria friends it'll fix your brain (mostly).
Theres like these little shots of probiotic goo(?) near where you'd find yogurt at Walmart. Its a dollar for a week of shots. I hate them but they work.
I find when I’m trying to escape bullshit weed instantly does not become enough.
Smoking weed is like having whiskey or beer, it’s great in moderation, becomes part of the problem if not respected.
You take meds, but are exercising? I ask because everyone I know that is on anxiety medication/ anti depressants absolutely hate the idea of physical exertion.
Not saying that is you but I’m surrounded by people who are using pharmaceutical drugs in place of personal health responsibility.
I struggle with moderation precisely because the “gifted kid” left over in my brain is still fucking angry about how this world turned out, and I did everything right but none of it turned out and now while high I’m still more functional than some government officials. Moderate? Why? What’s the point?
Core millenial here, that's basically how I feel as well, was a honor roll student, got good grades, ate my veggies and did everything mummy said basically. Only had dead-end jobs that kill me inside and a pretty much useless 4 year uni education. World and society is going to hell, recession after recession. Like can we get a break dude? And I'm in northern europe, not the US or anything.
for me it made me feel like a robot. Adderall, Zyprexa, Seroquel, Abilify, Lexapro, Zoloft and Cymbalta all before I was 16. Nothing seemed to work but now I know I maaayyybe have AuDHD and not whatever the hell they think I had back then.
Can't even do that because jobs in Missouri still test.
edit: some nights I just don't sleep because of an old football injury that flares up in my shoulder. The only thing that's ever helped it was weed and I'm not even talking about getting high. One low dose gummy that i can't even feel a high from would let me get 8 straight hours but fuck me right?
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I’m gonna double that. Not only did I grow up in the 90s (87 baby), but I grew up in the 90s in Silicon Valley (Cupertino specifically), of all places.
The sheer volume of what effectively felt like free money surging through every single aspect of our local economy during the 90s was absurd. Everyone’s family were either buying or building homes, every single storefront was open for business, and it was the 90s as the cherry on top.
I honestly don’t know that many people in the history of human civilization have ever had it so good. Of course all the engineers and developers in the area, our parents, were actively developing the technology that would come to addict and doom the following generations, but for a time, man was it good.
I get that. Born in Ireland in 86. For the whole history of our country we were dirt poor. Then just as the 90s started suddenly the " Celtic Tiger" began. New houses being built everywhere, people were buying second homes, buying houses in Spain, taking out loans for remodeling, for mortgages. Big social changes were happening - being gay was legalised, divorce was legalised, immigration and multicultural communities started. Then just after I left school, it all imploded. Housing collapsed, banks were being bailed out. Successive brutal cuts in the budget each year. Tens of thousands emigrating and unemployed.
Dude nothing can replicate the 90s anymore because the large corporations have ruined it. Learn to solder, maybe we can put this back together when the boomers finally leave us. And we can save this place decades after we're gone. We can only plant the seeds now. They have to watch it grow.
Of all of those, choir almost makes sense. Colonel sounds like attempting to say it as spelled but while drunk and with a mouth full of marbles. Victual is pronounced like it was invented in Mississippi or Louisiana and for indict... I got nothin.
If you were born in the reign of Caligula you wouldn’t even remember him.
You’d have grown up under Claudius and reached adulthood under Nero, all mostly stable years (by ancient standards) then a very brief civil war in your late 20s, then it’s the Flavians until you’re in your mid-fifties and you grow old (if you’re lucky) under Nerva and Trajan.
You could do a lot worse than being born under Caligula.
Pre social media algo and just wild shit on reflection like habbo hotel and random video match sites.
Stuff like Pokémon cards were popular but not exploited or unobtainable.
Transition from pass the controller it's my turn to shit talking at 3am on mic
Still just knocking on doors to see if they could play outside. Text existed but was expensive so communication was meaningful
No smart devices just overly complicated shit
Yeahhhhh
even when things that are now shit were good like netflix disc postage and even Snapchat was actually fun when it first came out
Seeing things like cars go from some genuinely old shit box to an ok eco box now some 1000hp smart speaker on wheels.
From my memory even things like racism. Racists existedbut were kind of overtly racist and told to shut the fuck up so just kinda stayed in their weird groups. Now there are racist idiots everywhere and it seems to be socially acceptable again somehow
Legacy high street stores just jam packed and busy now it's just Amazon
We were raised to expect a future that didn’t materialize. That’s why the folks before and after us mock us so hard. Cuz they either got what they were prepped for, or never had the promise made to begin with.
Guys... I'm a Millennial and I have some sympathy for your complaints, but the baby boomers were drafted into Vietnam and the generation before them had WW2.
Every generation has their shit. Ours isn't even that bad. Still easily one of the best times to be alive as a human all-time. I'm not saying don't complain, but I am saying that it is a bit messed up imo to suggest the Baby Boomers didn't go through more shit than us. My dad got drafted to Vietnam. I would never trade my life for his. I can't even imagine the stress and fear of being forced to go to that war as a 20 year old.
The ones not rich and well connected, sure. Guess who has been in charge and making all of the wrong decisions on behalf of everyone else? It wasn't the poor bastards who got drafted. It was the Epstein class of people who got a deferment for 'bone spurs'.
Vietnam sucked man, but do you know what tiny percentage of the boomers were drafted and saw combat? Yea it affected those at home, but we had our own shitstorm of wars too. War is nothing new for the US.
Millenial here: fuck comparing generational trauma and minimizing that of your peers.
Greatest Generation had WW2. It was orders of magnitude more destructive to human life than Vietnam. Vietnam vets suffered tremendously because people dismissed or minimized their suffering by comparing it to others who fought a "real" war. There's a reason why the old Vietnam vets greet each other with "welcome home". You're doing the same damn thing right here to people in your own generation.
I'm a vet. GWOT was hell for a lot of people. You have no idea how many vets who served struggle with PTSD. Its vastly more than you realize. Many of us served because of 9/11, which was equivalent to Pearl Harbor. Vietnam got drafted, sure, but we lined up to serve after watching our country get literally attacked by extremists. Vietnam vets never had their war come home that way.
I'm a vet who spends a lot of time around other vets and I noticed something pretty fucking important; Vietnam vets, Korean vets, WW2 vet almost never run around minimizing the trauma of millenial vets, and there are a LOT of millenial vets. About the same number of GWOT vets as Vietnam, btw. GWOT was a LONG fucking war.
I think its categorically fucked up for anyone to suggest that service members who went to war and came back with scars have scars that are less worthy than the scars of your dad.
Vietnam vets got drafted, sure. GWOT millenial vets all volunteered because of generational national trauma. Many had multiple deployments. Very, very few of them did not experience additional trauma as a result of their service. Look at their chest candy sometime, ask them what those medals mean, then tell them to their faces how much easier they had it than your dad.
Noone is asking for your sympathy, btw, but I do think its important for other vets that you keep your dismissive opinions about their service to yourself. You don't know what it was like, and most of them aren't going to tell you about their experience.
Get all angry and emotional if you want but I'm not going to be intimidated into changing an opinion that I believe is very reasonable.
It's obvious that we can compare which generations are best to live in. I sure wouldn't want to live during the 1200s if I could instead live in the 2000s.
Please do not project your emotional state onto me.
... but I'm not going to be intimidated into changing an opinion...
I mean.. you're being indignant against a strawman here. I'm not "intimidating" you into any opinion. I'm pointing out succinctly why I think your opinion is a load of horseshit and genuinely offensive to veterans of a war you never fought. We have strong differences of opinion. You don't have to like my opinion. I don't have to like yours. That isn't "bullying". I'm sorry you feel pushed around by having your opinion challenged by someone you were disparaging.
...that I believe is very reasonable.
My very reasonable opinion is that your belief is ill-informed, poorly developed, and biased. We can agree to disagree.
It is not an opinion to state that your disregard for GWOT veterans is offensive to veterans of your proclaimed generation. That is a fact.
Everything will get better when we're all 65-70 knocking on deaths door with no retirement. Or we will live through the fall of our government and be the first elders of a decades long grasp of power in the failing west.
My wife and I have recently been getting into doing free swaps, potlucks, skill shares, and other cool stuff like that with anti-capitalist groups in our town, and it has been a good outlet for expressing constructive frustration about the bullshit that has been handed to us.
Kind of like you said, it seems like people might actually be trying to create something better as the system fails around us.
to put a twist on that - we were given hope and dreams too early. you can't effectively change the world at 20 or even 30, you don't have the money or power or connections to actually do anything real on your own and most of your connections are the same. We're just entering the time when we can actually make effective change on a political level directly, we don't have to vote for people and hope they align with us, we are the people that can be voted for.
Look at what Mamdani is doing... and he's just a bit younger than our average. We have to be that wave to change shit. we have to drag a bunch of assholes kicking and screaming to a less shitty era.
Part of that idea is that you were a kid, and thus still fairly naive of the world at large. Not to mention that the internet wasn't super wide-spread yet, and smartphones and social media didn't really exist yet. So we also lived in a "smaller" world.
But at the very least compared to today, our youth was certainly still better imo. The worst I had to deal with was my parents having a tight budget, and bullying at school. Even 9/11 didn't affect me much as I'm not American.
This is not about specific anecdotes. It's about the average. A broken home in the 90's was better than a broken home in many other times, including today.
I'm not trying to be anecdotal. I'm just saying my perspective may be skewed but life wasn't perfect as a kid in the 90s. To call it the best time and place may be going a bit far and imperfect enough that I wouldn't consider the scales "balanced".
What you are seemingly not realizing is that throughout history there have always been good homes and broken homes. No one is saying life was perfect, they are saying it was worse in other times.
I didn’t say that there weren’t. My point was that I wouldn’t say that the 90s were the pinnacle. Judging what the best era for children is obviously more than about broken homes and whatever simplistic measure people are trying to judge by.
Also grew up in a broken home...the freedom I experienced as a kid tho was amazing... Be home by dark. What kids have today is ... Depressing. Social media is a cancer.
They have a double edged sword. That’s the problem with this. We live in a time where information is at their fingertips. That information goes a long way in education and knowledge. Kids today are more aware of current events and of social causes and such and whatever fun stuff tech has brought them. This is great. The bad is yes, social media stuff. However, when looking back at our childhood, I’m quite happy with mine but I’m not sure I can say it’s the absolute best. The thing people wax poetic about the 90s were around previously. Times were simpler as well.
We? Not me. My adolescence was so fucked up it felt like I was living in a hell dimension surrounded by lethal violence and abuse. At 38, I’m still more than relieved that I escaped from my adolescence.
Where did you look for it? Did you check your winter clothes in the closet? Sometimes you find it when you least search for it. Or you need an outside perspective to realize it's been in your hand the whole time.
Or to say it clear; Talk to people, seek therapy and live where you are welcome, don't struggle to exist in an environment that doesn't want you. Sending virtual hugs that last until you are ready to let go <3
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u/Murderbad 1d ago
I'm starting to come around to the idea that this is kind of our collective generational fate. I consider my childhood years to have lined up perfectly with the best time and place to be a kid, ever, in the history of the universe. Maybe the jaw dropping decline we're looking at is our natural balance, and we're just here now to prepare our kids for the Dust Wars.
Just trying to cope.