It feels like the future is going to be complete shit, dating apps took over dating and now its impossible to find a relationship, the cities in the US are few and far between and they're all shit, you need a car to get everywhere, and as much as I like driving, its all just traffic and driving isn't fun, urban sprawl is fucking everywhere. Everything is ruled by whatever corpo fuck can make the most money out of it, nothing else fucking matters, and NOTHING IS SPARED. NOT EVEN HUMAN CONNECTION. All my friends I met in college, and now that I'm close to graduating, I'm really scared that it's going to be damn near impossible to make new friends, and I can probably forget about a girlfriend who will become a wife and then having kids and a family. I'm in my final year of college, and I joined a few clubs and go to the gym to try to mitigate a bad future but all these social opportunities with people my age are going to disappear as soon as I graduate and I'll be back to square one. I don't see a single good thing that can happen in the future, just work and work and empty apartment when I eventually move out or my mom passes away, whichever comes first. FUUUUCKKKKKKK can this be avoided or is the US just fucked beyond repair?
>>32325084Realize every time in human history has been bad and scary. Our ancestors simply did as we do now, try to find a way to carry on. Go out and live your life anon.
>>32325084Yes you're right, it does look like things are getting shittier. Where the other anon was correct is that existence has always been shitty even for our ancestors. But where you, OP, are also correct is that the unique ways in which our 21st century shittiness presents itself are... well unique. No one in history has suffered quite exactly in the same qualitative ways as we do today.That said, I'm sure you are familiar with the "glass half full" metaphor?It literally doesn't matter whether you call the glass half full or half empty. It is still exactly the same amount of water either way. Your perceptions about reality don't actually change reality. And so in a sense, it is actually your perceptions that make you miserable. To a depressed person the phrase "none of this matters"!" is a desperate cry for help. It is an expression of futility, that their suffering is unending and that it will continue forever unending. To an enlightened person: "none of this matters!" is an expression of relief. If nothing matters, then you are free of the burden of worry and suffering. You don't **have to** view the world in a negative way, or even a positive way. You are simply free to live your life in whatever capacity that you are able to. If none of this matters, then the flowers that you smell now, the birds that you feed, every sunset, every late night walk under the moon, can be the most important and greatest moment of your life. When you die, all of those things will be gone. So a better perspective is that you actually **get to** experience and enjoy them while you're here. If nothing matters, then everything is exactly as beautiful (or horrible) as you want to make of it.If you want more practical advice, I'd say take up some sort of artistic hobby. Consuming media can be depressing. But here's the cool thing: while you live on this Earth you don't have to just consume, you can **make things**. Just try to have fun, and do things for the fun of it.
>>32325084there was never really a time where people had absolutely certainty of upward mobility. you cant just look back at some point in history and generalize 1 or 2 good years into a lifetime of prosperity. people love to say boomers had life on "easy mode", because they just generalize decades of life at a time. the 70s saw heavy economic stagnation, and then the early 80s saw one of the biggest economic recessions outside of the great depression and gfc. for 10 years people would have felt just like you are feeling now, no hope for the future, and a fear of being drafted to an overseas war, but somehow you look back at that time and think those people who lived though that somehow knew they would end up prospering? the world has always been plagued by uncertainty. it may sound very cliche, but you just have to ignore things you cant control and focus and the stuff you can.
>>32325084I live in NYC, its not shit and you Don't need a car at all. I live comfortably on $50k
