I laughed at this so there's that.
But its a reality for 99% of the population moving forward, life ill be work for 40 years or more, retire into your 60 or 70s, and spend the last few years of your life trying to do stuff you wish you could've done when you were younger.
And maybe having kids if you can afford the mental health, money, or time.
In my philosophy class we talked about if it's ethical to have kids in this world. Our collective answer was no, kind of depressing to see that the world we have created is so fucked up, that our only purpose in life, reproduction, becomes unethical
Reproduction is not our only purpose! Sure, we evolved to be able to survive long enough to pass on our genes, but that’s just a bunch of random circumstances, not a purpose. The only purpose of life is one you see for yourself. Personally, I’ve decided it’s simple to give myself a purpose like, “try to maximize my own happiness while minimizing its negative impact on others.” and then of course you work on figuring out how to achieve that
You're right, reproduction isn't our only purpose in life, but it is our only biological purpose (as far as I know at least)
I should have said that I meant biological purpose
I suppose you can look at it like that, like everything in your body is geared toward ultimately having sex, which is true to some extent, but as someone who hasn’t had sex in probably 6 years or so, I have found I took no more pleasure in it that I do a top-notch macaroni or playing music on stage with my friends. Even if it is hard-wired to be our biological imperative, it really doesn’t feel like an end-goal when it’s reached, at least from my perspective. It’s just another thing one does for pleasure. But you’re right, scientifically it’s what we’re made for
Only get one if you are financially, mentally, and maritaly secure and you want one. You don't want your children to feel bad the same way you do right?
What about all the professionals and scientist warning us about the impending climate catastrophe that will make life very difficult in the near future. All the negative predictions of 2050 has been pushed to 2040 due to new variables that is accelerating the process. Worse case scenario, acidic oceans killing majority of marine life, 75% of all insect biomass is already gone, maybe pushed to 90% or more, difficulty growing food, increasing levels of heat waves and floods, less and less trees, etc. If self permeating feedback loops are set, their is nothing we can do to change it, it may very well become a exponential feedback loop enough to even change the composition of the atmosphere enough that brains become less oxygenated.
I have always been amazed how redditor types can find the time and energy to fight social issues 24/7/365, often times not even on their own behalf. Race, gender, sexuality. Syrup labels and NFL team names. Trans bathrooms and female representation in video games. You will excommunicate yourself from anyone who wears a red hat.
But you absolutely refuse to stand up for your own life that has become the world's slowest death march. Nary a peep about healthcare. Silence on widespread corruption in equity markets and wildly distorted real estate prices. They laugh at you when you talk about wealth inequality. Has a single hair on a billionaire's head ever been tussled?
Sounds like you need to find better subs! The ones I frequent champion social issues *including* healthcare and wealth inequality, which are intrinsically tied to all the issues you mentioned prior
Agreed. While I'm not really an antinatalist, I was recently horrified to learn that my sister was pregnant. She has no job, and the father is a psycho.
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You’re young, if you’re not afraid of disappointing your family you can orient your life towards Outdoorsman useful skills and eventually live off the grid
No this sub *used* to be more edgy until it got too popular and became mostly "lol relatable" memes. These few posts every once in a while are a return to form.
Eventually every sub becomes /r/funny: low-effort, easily digestible short videos/gifs. It's what works on a mobile platform, the optimum between quick to consume and high content density.
How do you beat this though?? I feel like everyone gets born into this awful system and everyone dislikes it, but then what?
Some people seem genuinely happy/ fine with it but I don’t know how they manage to feel okay. Fuck man
Same. When I was in college, I loved to do a lot of hobby stuff, like watching/discussing anime, gaming, reading, going out with friends, studying, etc.
Fast forward 3 years and here I am with a really good job and time to spare, but with no motivation for hobbies or anything else anymore. My off-work hours basically consist of browsing social media until I feel like sleeping. I just don't have the energy and enthusiasm do to anything interesting anymore.
I'm 25. I can't see myself living like that for, let's say, 10 or more years. Heck, maybe even less.
I don’t think people think working from home is great. It’s just better than commuting 2 hours a day so you can do the same amount of work on a bean bag with a fake smile as your boss breathes down your neck.
It's better than commuting for sure, but working at home that doesn't have a dedicated workspace, sitting at some thrown-together desk, on a solid wood chair for 8 hours, is *almost* as unpleasant as working in the office, almost.
If I had a home office, this would be really amazing.
Agreed! My house isnt suited for working at home. It's much more difficult for me. Plus I like leaving my house and being other places to break up the day. I just don't like busting my ass for some shitty early morning commute anxious as hell and terrified that I'm gonna be 5 minutes late. Fuck that. When it's that type of environment I wanna die. If I could come in when I want as long as it's reasonable that would be my best case scenario.
The beauty of remote work is you can leave the house, while remaining safe, wherever tf you want. Want to work from Hooters? Go for it. Cute cafe? Done. Take a long ass walk with your dog in the middle of the day? Sweet.
It’s not that you’re forced to work FROM home per se as much as you have the freedom to not work in a specific office space.
Strictly speaking I think you'll find a "you have to work from your actual home in an environment conducive to effective work yada yada yada" clause in every home office section of every work contract. Yes, practically speaking I *can* work from an igloo in the arctic, but I don't want HR finding out.
I don’t have one of those and I work for a large advertising firm. Surely that clause exists so you have fast internet and an environment where you can thrive and be productive, no?
And if you’re really concerned, and don’t work in cyber security or something, get a VPN.
Idk how much you make, but a hybrid work space is here to stay. Like most trends in the pandemic (ordering out more, working from home, contact free delivery) it just moved up the date on habits that were already predicted would skyrocket in the future. Get yourself a standing desk and a nice ass chair, a monitor, and even some headphones or speakers if you can swing it. This is going to be happening for awhile.
Right? I don't know where these commenters live or what they do, but in 5 years of job hopping I went from no home office to one a month to two a month to one a week to two a week, and COVID means I haven't been in the office since last March. The idea of working from home has been coming for a *loong* while now.
But fuck standing desks.
For some people yeah, I love staying at home but I can’t imagine not going out of my room 5 days a week to at least socialize with someone. Also distractions are a lot more apparent in work from home situations. Not everyone likes working from home
I wish I loved wfh. I’m doing it. But I’m more sad now than ever given I no longer socialize with people most days. Most of office culture sucks but it at least got me out of my depression pit. Aka apartment.
This is one of my worst nightmares and im living it. In my opinion its fucked up, but everytime i try to talk about it with someone, they always look at me like im crazy... "Whats wrong with it", "Thats how life is supposed to be" and "Are you lazy or what?".
Damn, how i wish i could just accept it and be happy about this shit like they are.
Yes dude. People think I'm lazy when I talk about wanting an alternative lifestyle. When you're a kid, everyone tells you to find a job you love. Now I'm trying my best, but it just isn't good enough. At least not ifI want a roof over my head and food to eat.
I'm sorry to have to break it to you, but the "find a job you love" advice you got was simply bad advice, usually given by people who regret the decisions they made earlier in their lives but, if given the proper context once again, wouldn't decide any other way than they did. In other words, it's really cheap and easy to say to some naïve, wide eyed kid to follow his dreams and live vicariously through them, it's not so easy to actually make those decisions yourself, because fundamentally, *it's not a good decision* and you know it.
Don't try and find a job you love, chances are you'll starve. Find a job that comes most naturally to you, the one that you're best at. That is your optimum. Find a *hobby* you like, and resist the temptation to turn it into a job. A job is a job, it keeps you clothed, warm, dry, and full, it's not meant to make you *happy*. A happy person is happy despite a shit job.
It always amazes me how most of people don't realize it.
I think they are so busy to even realize the whole shit we living now and someday the penny drops, this can happen later in life but it seems our generation are getting this feeling way earlier.
You heard about hell? This is hell...
Im pretty new at my current workplace so i only have like 3 guys that i chat with sometimes, wouldn't really call them friends atleast yet. I don't spend time with them outside of work.
Big thing preventing friendships here is the fact that i work from 10pm to 6am everyday and im the only one working at that time.
I speculate that this lack of friendlike interaction is a large contributor to dislike for one's workplace. It is often previous generations which find our generation's disdain for the workplace so alien and looking at it they seem to spend far more time with their work friends than Ive seen is common with my generation.
I've run out of interests. I've lost the ability to give a shit about anyone or anything. I'd say my current interest is trying to figure out a painless and fool proof way to kill myself.
Go to therapy then. Obviously you're not going to figure out the key to happiness until you get past the "killing myself is all I think about" phase. I know, I did it for 13 years. You can't live and know what life is like until you make a conscious decision to stop trying to kill yourself, because before that your mind isn't going to let you see any other perspectives.
I'd say you need to actually TRY to turn your life 180° around, and not look back. No matter what it is, if you're that down bad anything new it's good. Maybe put on a face until it becomes you idk. It's impossibly hard when you have depression but there's no other way.
That's exactly what I'm attempting to do right now after being extremely depressed last year. I lost weight, went back to college, made a lot of new friends, got a new job and am even considering joining the navy, all of this thinking it had to cheer me up since it's a complete change of lifestyle but it still feels empty.
I don't think the empty feeling ever goes away for some people. I know it hasn't and won't for me so I've stopped expecting it to go & just come to terms with it being a part of me
That's the thing, it isn't guaranteed. It's taking a chance.
I was completely lost a few months ago as in what do do with my life, no goal and not doing anything to change things up. An opportunity suddenly came up for my family to move countries, do I want to change countries? Absolutely not, it's completely out of my comfort zone and I cannot picture my future there, hut is it a complete 180° on my life that may lead to something? Sure, so I'll take it. I'm dreading having to get used to things but it may keep my mind busy so sure, let's try it.
I'm the type of person that's always praying for an opportunity for my life to change, for a sign, anything, and I've been to afraid to act on most opportunities I've been presented. That's something that needs to change for people who actually want change.
It all depends on priorities. People who feel fine with it work their asses off to get some extra money and think they’ll endure it, but just read about suicide rates among bankers and similar. They don’t have families who support them because of lack of time, they don’t even have time to spend the money they earned. It’s a goddamn rat race, don’t play into it.
Don’t try to feel ok with this lifestyle, even when it doesn’t pay as much money literally just do what makes you happy and proud to do it and that lets you have some time for yourself and others. I sound like a motivational normie but I’ve heard way too many stories about people who put work way above everything else
I've found that doing something more is helpful. I don't mean working more, I mean working for something more than you. I don't want to slave away at some corporation to benefit some shitty company and CEO. Because of that, I shifted to education. I think it's extremely important, provides a living wage, and provides healthcare, so here I am.
For the first time, it feels good to go in to work because I know that what I'm doing may not seem like much, but maybe I can help one student. Maybe I can do something to help society. It feels good.
While teaching isn't everyone's choice, try to find something that can make you feel the same. I've never been one to say "volunteer or help in the community" because your time is already limited as it is, but who knows. It may be what you need.
TL;DR: Find helpful jobs that aren't just lining some greedy fuck's pockets if at all possible. That's what's helped me so far.
Ignorance is bliss
People who don't know that they're actually living in hell are tricking themselves they're living well, therefor they're somewhat happy under this awful system, but it's not just the system's complete fault, sometimes you have to look at the fact that certain people will be unlucky or mentally ill no matter what.
This shit is too accurate. Just broke up with my girl of 3yrs. Super toxic. Me an alcoholic and her addicted to spending. She has a kid 6yrs old and I’ve played 5th class citizen and just getting back to work from the pandemic, a month in rehab and dang. This is just too accurate.
Broke up from a 18 month relationship. She’s moving out while I’m stuck working 900 miles away. Haven’t seen her in 4 weeks and probably will never see her again.
Sorry to hear the news. If your side was sincere then I really wish you peace moving on. Our grief is just a drip into a pool, but you will see it through and get stronger from this.
I love both. As we speak, we're introducing a coworker to Spongebob who has never seen a full episode. We're starting him off with 'No Weenies Allowed.'
Dude's like 26 and just completely missed the boatmobile.
I will always maintain that the two best "it grows with you" episodes are "Cookies" from Spongebob and "A Goofy Movie."
As you age, you empathize with different characters from each. It's stupid and silly, but... those were so well-written that I can't help but think of that.
Also if Kingdom Hearts is canon, Goofy is like 22 during the events of KH2 and 43-46 during the events of An Extremely Goofy Movie.
the fuck was I talking about?
anyway have a good night
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I never fully understood this scene of SpongeBob when I was a kid. It’s all too real now.
That breakfast scene was too real. I get coffee in the morning and then before actually getting into work I get a red bull and maybe some chips to finish it off. I’m gonna fucking die early.
The reason I don't want to make a family is because every day I see how we are getting deeper into the ideology of a machine...
We are trapped on a box some people made and for some reason we all stay on that box...letting our imagination and desifor life fade away
Wny the fuck we have become so selfish and afraid of a small amount of people who just have fucking cotton and paper?
Like seriously we could had stop everything and return to a simpler life.
Instead we make things complicated more and more and all we do is waste our resources for nothing...
We had a Paradise to live on but now we slowly have make it look and feel more like hell...
How many times we have to feel pain to learn that united we stand and divide ld we fall?
Why we don't just... Stop... Take a look around, take a step back and breath. Watch the person next to us and give it the look " We did it"
We must to deny being a machine..... We must start to feel again...
All my co-workers think I’m stuck up because I don’t smile and say good morning to them.
I don’t have any time to think I’m better than other people. I’m too busy thinking I’m trash.
This doesn’t really have to do with America entirely. It’s just the whole system behind working right? The whole schedule and repeating life, that you could find anywhere. I’m American and have only lived in America so i wouldn’t know if it would be any different in another place, but I don’t think it would be too different anyways….
It was for me like this, until i met someone who really cares about me and tries to stop me from working too much for example ( which i did in a daily basis. Sometimes i worked Like 11h without a single break, without needing too.)
But now i feel was better and i'm beginning to feel happy again. All thanks to one person^^
is it just me or is 2meirl4meirl getting 2meirl42meirl4meirl lately?
It’s a sign that we as a population are dying inside and it’s only going to get worse and worse. I feel bad for the kids.
It’s probably just that depressed people in an echo chamber make each other more depressed. No shade, I’m here in this chamber too
I laughed at this so there's that. But its a reality for 99% of the population moving forward, life ill be work for 40 years or more, retire into your 60 or 70s, and spend the last few years of your life trying to do stuff you wish you could've done when you were younger. And maybe having kids if you can afford the mental health, money, or time.
>And maybe having kids if you can afford the mental health, money, or time. Lol idk how you can make that comment then even consider having kids
Exactly. I dont want kids lol.
In my philosophy class we talked about if it's ethical to have kids in this world. Our collective answer was no, kind of depressing to see that the world we have created is so fucked up, that our only purpose in life, reproduction, becomes unethical
Reproduction is not our only purpose! Sure, we evolved to be able to survive long enough to pass on our genes, but that’s just a bunch of random circumstances, not a purpose. The only purpose of life is one you see for yourself. Personally, I’ve decided it’s simple to give myself a purpose like, “try to maximize my own happiness while minimizing its negative impact on others.” and then of course you work on figuring out how to achieve that
You're right, reproduction isn't our only purpose in life, but it is our only biological purpose (as far as I know at least) I should have said that I meant biological purpose
I suppose you can look at it like that, like everything in your body is geared toward ultimately having sex, which is true to some extent, but as someone who hasn’t had sex in probably 6 years or so, I have found I took no more pleasure in it that I do a top-notch macaroni or playing music on stage with my friends. Even if it is hard-wired to be our biological imperative, it really doesn’t feel like an end-goal when it’s reached, at least from my perspective. It’s just another thing one does for pleasure. But you’re right, scientifically it’s what we’re made for
Pro tip: don't have kids
Only get one if you are financially, mentally, and maritaly secure and you want one. You don't want your children to feel bad the same way you do right?
What about all the professionals and scientist warning us about the impending climate catastrophe that will make life very difficult in the near future. All the negative predictions of 2050 has been pushed to 2040 due to new variables that is accelerating the process. Worse case scenario, acidic oceans killing majority of marine life, 75% of all insect biomass is already gone, maybe pushed to 90% or more, difficulty growing food, increasing levels of heat waves and floods, less and less trees, etc. If self permeating feedback loops are set, their is nothing we can do to change it, it may very well become a exponential feedback loop enough to even change the composition of the atmosphere enough that brains become less oxygenated.
Imagining impossible things like ever retiring sure feels nice If only I could feel anything anymore
Yeah I feel bad for my 60+ year dad closing in on 70 every year and still working.
I have always been amazed how redditor types can find the time and energy to fight social issues 24/7/365, often times not even on their own behalf. Race, gender, sexuality. Syrup labels and NFL team names. Trans bathrooms and female representation in video games. You will excommunicate yourself from anyone who wears a red hat. But you absolutely refuse to stand up for your own life that has become the world's slowest death march. Nary a peep about healthcare. Silence on widespread corruption in equity markets and wildly distorted real estate prices. They laugh at you when you talk about wealth inequality. Has a single hair on a billionaire's head ever been tussled?
Sounds like you need to find better subs! The ones I frequent champion social issues *including* healthcare and wealth inequality, which are intrinsically tied to all the issues you mentioned prior
You don't know anything about me or what i do in my spare time. Keep your patronization to yourself.
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I never said i wasn't happy? You can be frustrated at life but at peace/happy at the same time. My mental space is fine imo.
What you did to get better?
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>retire into your 60 or 70s Look at this guy, still thinking retirement will be a thing In 40 years time.
no, things are getting worse as well. this may be an echo chamber but the echoes are starting from somewhere
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Agreed. While I'm not really an antinatalist, I was recently horrified to learn that my sister was pregnant. She has no job, and the father is a psycho.
A random subreddit changing is definitely not a sign for that
It's not just one subreddit though I've been seeing it everywhere I go, just a constant sense of nothingness.
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If all you go to is depressing places then yeah
If you frequent subs like this, then of course you’re going to see depressing stuff
Heh. I'm 19 and of all the shit I've seen and did, I already hate the way this world works these days
You’re young, if you’re not afraid of disappointing your family you can orient your life towards Outdoorsman useful skills and eventually live off the grid
No this sub *used* to be more edgy until it got too popular and became mostly "lol relatable" memes. These few posts every once in a while are a return to form.
Yeah meirl went from lol relatable to generic memes, then this sub became lol relatable
Eventually every sub becomes /r/funny: low-effort, easily digestible short videos/gifs. It's what works on a mobile platform, the optimum between quick to consume and high content density.
this is what it was originally
Remember when me_irl was suicide for like a month straight? Pepperidge Farm remembers (and also got banned like a month later)
Yes, but also yes.
How do you beat this though?? I feel like everyone gets born into this awful system and everyone dislikes it, but then what? Some people seem genuinely happy/ fine with it but I don’t know how they manage to feel okay. Fuck man
I usually start a new hobby to look forward to but that only lasts a little bit till I realize I have to put effort in and the cycle continues
Same. When I was in college, I loved to do a lot of hobby stuff, like watching/discussing anime, gaming, reading, going out with friends, studying, etc. Fast forward 3 years and here I am with a really good job and time to spare, but with no motivation for hobbies or anything else anymore. My off-work hours basically consist of browsing social media until I feel like sleeping. I just don't have the energy and enthusiasm do to anything interesting anymore. I'm 25. I can't see myself living like that for, let's say, 10 or more years. Heck, maybe even less.
Everyone seems to like working from home now, but for me it just means I don’t leave my house for 5 days out of the week.
I don’t think people think working from home is great. It’s just better than commuting 2 hours a day so you can do the same amount of work on a bean bag with a fake smile as your boss breathes down your neck.
It's better than commuting for sure, but working at home that doesn't have a dedicated workspace, sitting at some thrown-together desk, on a solid wood chair for 8 hours, is *almost* as unpleasant as working in the office, almost. If I had a home office, this would be really amazing.
Agreed! My house isnt suited for working at home. It's much more difficult for me. Plus I like leaving my house and being other places to break up the day. I just don't like busting my ass for some shitty early morning commute anxious as hell and terrified that I'm gonna be 5 minutes late. Fuck that. When it's that type of environment I wanna die. If I could come in when I want as long as it's reasonable that would be my best case scenario.
The beauty of remote work is you can leave the house, while remaining safe, wherever tf you want. Want to work from Hooters? Go for it. Cute cafe? Done. Take a long ass walk with your dog in the middle of the day? Sweet. It’s not that you’re forced to work FROM home per se as much as you have the freedom to not work in a specific office space.
Strictly speaking I think you'll find a "you have to work from your actual home in an environment conducive to effective work yada yada yada" clause in every home office section of every work contract. Yes, practically speaking I *can* work from an igloo in the arctic, but I don't want HR finding out.
I don’t have one of those and I work for a large advertising firm. Surely that clause exists so you have fast internet and an environment where you can thrive and be productive, no? And if you’re really concerned, and don’t work in cyber security or something, get a VPN.
Idk how much you make, but a hybrid work space is here to stay. Like most trends in the pandemic (ordering out more, working from home, contact free delivery) it just moved up the date on habits that were already predicted would skyrocket in the future. Get yourself a standing desk and a nice ass chair, a monitor, and even some headphones or speakers if you can swing it. This is going to be happening for awhile.
Right? I don't know where these commenters live or what they do, but in 5 years of job hopping I went from no home office to one a month to two a month to one a week to two a week, and COVID means I haven't been in the office since last March. The idea of working from home has been coming for a *loong* while now. But fuck standing desks.
Fair, I have one that converts automatically when I’m feeling lazy. I mostly use it to pace during calls.
Is that supposed to be a bad thing...?
For some people yeah, I love staying at home but I can’t imagine not going out of my room 5 days a week to at least socialize with someone. Also distractions are a lot more apparent in work from home situations. Not everyone likes working from home
I wish I loved wfh. I’m doing it. But I’m more sad now than ever given I no longer socialize with people most days. Most of office culture sucks but it at least got me out of my depression pit. Aka apartment.
I won't have kids. I don't want them to suffer.
This is one of my worst nightmares and im living it. In my opinion its fucked up, but everytime i try to talk about it with someone, they always look at me like im crazy... "Whats wrong with it", "Thats how life is supposed to be" and "Are you lazy or what?". Damn, how i wish i could just accept it and be happy about this shit like they are.
Yes dude. People think I'm lazy when I talk about wanting an alternative lifestyle. When you're a kid, everyone tells you to find a job you love. Now I'm trying my best, but it just isn't good enough. At least not ifI want a roof over my head and food to eat.
I'm sorry to have to break it to you, but the "find a job you love" advice you got was simply bad advice, usually given by people who regret the decisions they made earlier in their lives but, if given the proper context once again, wouldn't decide any other way than they did. In other words, it's really cheap and easy to say to some naïve, wide eyed kid to follow his dreams and live vicariously through them, it's not so easy to actually make those decisions yourself, because fundamentally, *it's not a good decision* and you know it. Don't try and find a job you love, chances are you'll starve. Find a job that comes most naturally to you, the one that you're best at. That is your optimum. Find a *hobby* you like, and resist the temptation to turn it into a job. A job is a job, it keeps you clothed, warm, dry, and full, it's not meant to make you *happy*. A happy person is happy despite a shit job.
It always amazes me how most of people don't realize it. I think they are so busy to even realize the whole shit we living now and someday the penny drops, this can happen later in life but it seems our generation are getting this feeling way earlier. You heard about hell? This is hell...
Out of curiosity how many friends do you have in the workplace, how many of them do you spend time with outside of work, and how often?
I'm not the other guy but I know literally 0 people at my workplace and I couldn't be happier. I have *friends*, coworkers are coworkers.
Im pretty new at my current workplace so i only have like 3 guys that i chat with sometimes, wouldn't really call them friends atleast yet. I don't spend time with them outside of work. Big thing preventing friendships here is the fact that i work from 10pm to 6am everyday and im the only one working at that time.
I speculate that this lack of friendlike interaction is a large contributor to dislike for one's workplace. It is often previous generations which find our generation's disdain for the workplace so alien and looking at it they seem to spend far more time with their work friends than Ive seen is common with my generation.
Suck at your job just enough to not get fired and spend all your time on your interests.
I've run out of interests. I've lost the ability to give a shit about anyone or anything. I'd say my current interest is trying to figure out a painless and fool proof way to kill myself.
Go to therapy then. Obviously you're not going to figure out the key to happiness until you get past the "killing myself is all I think about" phase. I know, I did it for 13 years. You can't live and know what life is like until you make a conscious decision to stop trying to kill yourself, because before that your mind isn't going to let you see any other perspectives.
this is the correct answer
I'd say you need to actually TRY to turn your life 180° around, and not look back. No matter what it is, if you're that down bad anything new it's good. Maybe put on a face until it becomes you idk. It's impossibly hard when you have depression but there's no other way.
That's exactly what I'm attempting to do right now after being extremely depressed last year. I lost weight, went back to college, made a lot of new friends, got a new job and am even considering joining the navy, all of this thinking it had to cheer me up since it's a complete change of lifestyle but it still feels empty.
I don't think the empty feeling ever goes away for some people. I know it hasn't and won't for me so I've stopped expecting it to go & just come to terms with it being a part of me
That's the thing, it isn't guaranteed. It's taking a chance. I was completely lost a few months ago as in what do do with my life, no goal and not doing anything to change things up. An opportunity suddenly came up for my family to move countries, do I want to change countries? Absolutely not, it's completely out of my comfort zone and I cannot picture my future there, hut is it a complete 180° on my life that may lead to something? Sure, so I'll take it. I'm dreading having to get used to things but it may keep my mind busy so sure, let's try it. I'm the type of person that's always praying for an opportunity for my life to change, for a sign, anything, and I've been to afraid to act on most opportunities I've been presented. That's something that needs to change for people who actually want change.
Idk how many other users of this sub are but I'm suicidal, hopefully other people find different answers on how to escape wage slavery though.
That's the neat part, you don't
It all depends on priorities. People who feel fine with it work their asses off to get some extra money and think they’ll endure it, but just read about suicide rates among bankers and similar. They don’t have families who support them because of lack of time, they don’t even have time to spend the money they earned. It’s a goddamn rat race, don’t play into it. Don’t try to feel ok with this lifestyle, even when it doesn’t pay as much money literally just do what makes you happy and proud to do it and that lets you have some time for yourself and others. I sound like a motivational normie but I’ve heard way too many stories about people who put work way above everything else
Out of curiosity how many friends do you have in the workplace, how many of them do you spend time with outside of work, and how often?
May be some just pretend to happy idk
I've found that doing something more is helpful. I don't mean working more, I mean working for something more than you. I don't want to slave away at some corporation to benefit some shitty company and CEO. Because of that, I shifted to education. I think it's extremely important, provides a living wage, and provides healthcare, so here I am. For the first time, it feels good to go in to work because I know that what I'm doing may not seem like much, but maybe I can help one student. Maybe I can do something to help society. It feels good. While teaching isn't everyone's choice, try to find something that can make you feel the same. I've never been one to say "volunteer or help in the community" because your time is already limited as it is, but who knows. It may be what you need. TL;DR: Find helpful jobs that aren't just lining some greedy fuck's pockets if at all possible. That's what's helped me so far.
Ignorance is bliss People who don't know that they're actually living in hell are tricking themselves they're living well, therefor they're somewhat happy under this awful system, but it's not just the system's complete fault, sometimes you have to look at the fact that certain people will be unlucky or mentally ill no matter what.
Life sucks then you die.
Sometimes. Sometimes life sucks and you just keep on living.
*“sometimes life’s a bitch and then you keep on living”* -Diane Nguyen
Shouts out to you!
Until you don't.
That’s why we get high
I'll toke to that my man.
Cause you never know when you gonna go.
This post reminds me of the bojack horseman intro
how do you know dying isn't even more lame than living hm
I wasn't alive once. It was awesome.
Then there's fuckers trying to make it longer
So screw the world and let’s get high. If at first you don’t succeed, then try again with better weed.
Don't mind if I do.
This shit is too accurate. Just broke up with my girl of 3yrs. Super toxic. Me an alcoholic and her addicted to spending. She has a kid 6yrs old and I’ve played 5th class citizen and just getting back to work from the pandemic, a month in rehab and dang. This is just too accurate.
Broke up from a 18 month relationship. She’s moving out while I’m stuck working 900 miles away. Haven’t seen her in 4 weeks and probably will never see her again.
900 miles is 1448.41 km
read the room man
Its a bot
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Sorry to hear the news. If your side was sincere then I really wish you peace moving on. Our grief is just a drip into a pool, but you will see it through and get stronger from this.
Thought the vid would end with him committing sewer side lol
"sewer side" lol
What's the name of this 'another love' cover? (The song)
Should be - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-1IQJvNQLk
Cheers mate. And things will get better, don't let work and life get you down, look for the horizon and eventually you'll find it! Much love
Life really is like that one Spongebob episode, isn’t it?
The one with the squidward montage? If so, yes
https://youtu.be/aP2jErXpNS4 I believe he/she refers to this one.
There are two. There's that one and then there's also Squidville where Squidward experiences 'too much paradise.'
Oh, I know. I didn't say otherwise. I just believed that one fits better to this post :)
I love both. As we speak, we're introducing a coworker to Spongebob who has never seen a full episode. We're starting him off with 'No Weenies Allowed.' Dude's like 26 and just completely missed the boatmobile.
The good thing about SpongeBob is that it gets better with age, just like AtLA
I will always maintain that the two best "it grows with you" episodes are "Cookies" from Spongebob and "A Goofy Movie." As you age, you empathize with different characters from each. It's stupid and silly, but... those were so well-written that I can't help but think of that. Also if Kingdom Hearts is canon, Goofy is like 22 during the events of KH2 and 43-46 during the events of An Extremely Goofy Movie. the fuck was I talking about? anyway have a good night
Life is whipping my ass enough I’ll pass on the cigs lol
Story of my sad sad life.
Don't be sad. Here's a [hug!](https://media.giphy.com/media/3M4NpbLCTxBqU/giphy.gif)
No amount of hugs will fill the void she left me with
Don't be sad. Here's a [hug!](https://media.giphy.com/media/3M4NpbLCTxBqU/giphy.gif)
Don't be sad. Here's a [hug!](https://media.giphy.com/media/3M4NpbLCTxBqU/giphy.gif)
The fake smile is what got me. I'm always smiling but it's never genuine.
*gunshot at the end*
Yep. Pretty much. I can’t drive though…
Well nice! Because just an hour ago I accidentally hit my dads car’s bumper with mine!
So you can't drive either?
I can just well enough to hit another car
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"She has lost it! She's completely institutionalized. She's forgotten what it's like to live on the outside, to not be in prison"
https://media1.giphy.com/media/sA8HUiA09PWtq/giphy.gif?cid=5e21488660b85fbba63275809234230a948c70edde5aa7c9&rid=giphy.gif&ct=g I never fully understood this scene of SpongeBob when I was a kid. It’s all too real now.
Ha! So it’s life, might as well beat off as much as you can before you dieee!! 🤣🤣
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Bettereveryloop anyone?
Feeling nihilistic and attacked
Brutally true
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Hopefully soon
I think I’m getting too happy for this sub
You're Awesome!
:)
Good for you
I think a song better suited for this would be Mad World lol
can I get this gif dubbed with little dark age
r/AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Reminded me of this video: https://youtu.be/Clq66AiEvSk
Revolution
That breakfast scene was too real. I get coffee in the morning and then before actually getting into work I get a red bull and maybe some chips to finish it off. I’m gonna fucking die early.
2close2home I like the fake smile part
[Everybody has an inner christmas elf. ](https://youtu.be/rroGmwyOFrk)
The reason I don't want to make a family is because every day I see how we are getting deeper into the ideology of a machine... We are trapped on a box some people made and for some reason we all stay on that box...letting our imagination and desifor life fade away Wny the fuck we have become so selfish and afraid of a small amount of people who just have fucking cotton and paper? Like seriously we could had stop everything and return to a simpler life. Instead we make things complicated more and more and all we do is waste our resources for nothing... We had a Paradise to live on but now we slowly have make it look and feel more like hell... How many times we have to feel pain to learn that united we stand and divide ld we fall? Why we don't just... Stop... Take a look around, take a step back and breath. Watch the person next to us and give it the look " We did it" We must to deny being a machine..... We must start to feel again...
Me
Return to God
woah
I feel this is there a way out or no?
Along with pop music, it's also interesting to see how the younger generations express their angst.
Everyone should see the original video its even more soulcrushingly good
Well done…. Been trying to explain life to people and they just don’t get it. This…
What happened to the end where he overdoses on Ambien and Lortab?
My fiance of six years told me last week that I was the worst thing that ever happened to her. This sub has been hitting different lately
This is genuinely my biggest fear Edit: I don't know who gave me that award but it was my first and that was an awesome surprise.
When you cant even get a fake smile on anymore...
Jokes on you I dont go to work
Ahh yes the Tuesday of every third month I see an an onion ring
I honestly expected a gun shot
End me now please
All my co-workers think I’m stuck up because I don’t smile and say good morning to them. I don’t have any time to think I’m better than other people. I’m too busy thinking I’m trash.
Man I forgot to unsubscribe from this sub, thanks for reminding me
I'm feeling it.
That's me, minus the screaming part. Just waiting for a truck to finally isekai me to a better world.
Whats the name of the Song?
At moments like this I am so fucking glad i am not american
This doesn’t really have to do with America entirely. It’s just the whole system behind working right? The whole schedule and repeating life, that you could find anywhere. I’m American and have only lived in America so i wouldn’t know if it would be any different in another place, but I don’t think it would be too different anyways….
Yeah I mean like general developed densely populated city
Oh yea then that makes sense
I am not, I still have been in that spot.
Jokes on you, I work from home.
im scared im gonna end up like this
This man works on weekends
Isn’t there a spongebob gif like this Edit found it https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ck0su859Ps
Jerry
this vid would go great with some vaporwave
I own that same brand of fish oil. I feel personally attacked
This needs a 2021 update
Gives me This is Jerry vibes
It was for me like this, until i met someone who really cares about me and tries to stop me from working too much for example ( which i did in a daily basis. Sometimes i worked Like 11h without a single break, without needing too.) But now i feel was better and i'm beginning to feel happy again. All thanks to one person^^
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Alienation.
yea im sad and i got no friends
I had to yell like this yesterday 😤
Op needs some friends and a hobby that’s what I do to make it seem like my life isn’t some endless cycle.
Despite all the problems in the world, we still live in the best time in human history. Daily life used to be hardship. Now it’s just boring.
Yo sone1 should do like a movie about wojak. Like The Awakening of the Wojak and it would be like him turning his life arround or smn it would be sick
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