My parents asked when I planned on having kids, and I answered something along the lines of "I love my unborn children FAR too much to consider bringing them into this hell-hole."
...that was maybe 5 years ago? They haven't TOUCHED that topic since, lol.
I said the same thing to my parents and they said "Well if you enjoy life, so will your children!" They were really stumped when I told them I wouldn't exactly say I "enjoy" life.
Man now I want these clowns to ban jacking off so I can make that joke. No wait...
I never see it brought up but. We were told not to constantly! Unless you were rich you weren't supposed to have kids and now they are shocked people listened to them. It's been said for at least 100 years
I had the same experience and always wondered whether I lived in a weird bubble. Maybe there's a couple of weird bubbles out there. But no one I know in my generation or the adjacent generations has ever been told or pressured into having kids. Hardly anyone had parents who took it for granted they'd have grandchildren. It was more like school first, career first, stability first, happiness first, self fulfillment first, and then maaaaybe you can think about whether you want a kid in your life but we don't recommend. All the sex ed throughout school was focused on how to avoid pregnancy and STIs and how to pleasure oneself and your partner (which I don't want otherwise, just pointing it out).
"Because I was bought up to be a moral person who put the wellbeing of others before myself - why would I inflict a world that defines a person by their job on anyone?"
Is there a BoomersBeingFools community anywhere on lemmy?
I'm pretty sure there's a Jokes community. That's a good place to find them in the wild.
If you hit The Far Side, you've gone too far.
You have to ask, is our problem our reluctance to become monsters?
I know the monster I become is drug addict nihalist who is constantly in and out of prison. Probably die from lung cancer in the next 5-10 years.
The guilt of something like charismatic cult leader or disingenuous pastor would crush me. I'm too nervous/anxious to scam/con. Then my empathy is way too much to be an enforcer or offer dark web services.
Nope, if I gave up, I'm the guy they point at and say, "don't do drugs kids."
Our reluctance to become monsters despite the incentive gives me hope.
Let's hope we can hold out.
The world is better with you in it, I hope you can find some people that make you want to stick around and be with them as long as you can.
I definitely get despair when I think about the future, but I also want to just exist around my friends and loved ones. Their company is my motivation these days, and not hurting them or letting them down is enough reason to keep trying to make something of myself.
It's not easy, but I've found it worth it. Making them happy makes me happier, and makes me feel like I'm doing something right.
Take care friend, I'm rooting for you.
Ever read a Cormac McCarthy book? If not, you should.
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The internet is such a funny place.
Open Lemmy and see this on the front page today with a ton of upvotes, yet I make a post a while back criticizing Boomers and my account gets brigaded and spammed. Hope that’s not happening to you OP!
Lemmy is almost as toxic as Reddit these days.
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