• peopleproblems@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Jeez you made me think about how much fucked up shit I’ve been through.

    1. Publicized school shootings on TV 90s
    2. Watching the second plane crash on live TV on 9/11
    3. Medical trauma 1: had testicular torsion ,went in 12 hours after it started, they tried to untwist it by hand while I was conscious, morphine ain’t shit
    4. Medical trauma 2: spontaneous pneumothorax, the ketamine they dosed me with didn’t work so that chest tube insertion fucked me up
    5. PMTSD related anxiety and depression
    6. 2 more pneumothorax
    7. 2008 financial crisis
    8. college went well, but first job out of college after I got my computer engineering degree payed a fucking grand total of $51k.
    9. 2016 election
    10. Hit 250lbs
    11. 2019 my highschool sweetheart wife cheated on me
    12. COVID-19
    13. Hit 280 lbs
    14. Jan 6 insurrection
    15. Stagflation
    16. Lost 70lbs because of cutting back on food spending and weightloss medication
    17. discovered my wife sexting the guy she cheated on me with after being in marriage therapy for 4 years
    18. hit 250lbs again

    Jesus christ, is this resilience, or are we all so burnt out that we just accept everything getting worse always.

    Like I get the joke in Russia is “and then it got worse.” But Jesus christ, it can’t get worse if it’s always bad can it?

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      are we all so burnt out that we just accept everything getting worse always

      Yup. Our brains are so fried by the overexposure to everything, we’ve outsourced our thinking to those who scare us into submission daily, but never tell us about the real dangers.

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      1 year ago

      Not trying to dismiss your sufferings but I still think our generation had it way better than our grandparents, and probably better than 90% of the people in the world if you live in an advanced economy. For instance my grandfather went through the bloodiest war in human history, a bloody civil war, and a famine that killed millions of people. The problem right now is getting all the negative information that you have no control over from the internet, that’s why I stay away from tuning into any news these days.

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        1 year ago

        2023 is literally better than every year in human history that came before it. People are just negative, it’s part of our nature to not be content and constantly push for improvement for ourselves and others.

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          Depends. For my country we were on the verge on a civil war, and then a massacre started a real outwards war… Guess the silver lining is we won’t have a civil war anytime soon…

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            There are places that are worse, for sure, and I’m sorry to hear that. But the average is better. Just like the existence of really hot days does not disprove climate change, really terrible events in certain places do not disprove the overall trend of things getting better.