You want to know why.
You make fun.
Make jokes.
Demean.
I think itās because we know the ādreamā isnāt real.
Weāve been told thereās no hope.
Donāt follow your dreams. Get a good, solid job that will pay the bills.
Donāt even bother trying to do anything you enjoy. It wonāt happen. Following your dreams, working toward making them a reality, that will end you up alone, living in the gutter, and dead as a no one, with no one at your funeral.
Weāre told that in order to survive (have money for college, have a place to live, have the support we need to have a chance at surviving at this life) we need our parentsā financial support. And more and more Iām seeing that parents use this to berate, manipulate, and abuse their children. But their children canāt do anything but what their parentsā desire or else. Or else no money for college. No place to live. No way to live.
Weāre told by society that there is no way we can find a life we want. There is no way that we can attain the body we want, the job we want, the relationship we want. Weāre told there is no healthy relationship, no enjoyable job that also pays the bills, no way to enjoy food and not be fatter than a Wall-E person (kidās movie, google the humans at the end if you donāt know what I mean).
I know that I can only know what Iāve experienced. I only have the information from the lives within my world and the life Iāve lived. But how can I know so many people of all ages, genders, beliefs, social classes, etc., and weāve all had the same experiences?
I’m not bashing on any one people or generation. I’m saying, look around. We’re not falling apart at the seams. We’re tearing each other apart and if anyone says anything, oh, they’re being dramatic. Cue eye roll.
Weāre not people-ing right, people.
Weāre taking brand new babies, grabbing a megaphone, and screaming into their faces that there is no point to life – get a job you can use to survive, and donāt expect to not be stressing over having enough money to survive.
Weāre brainwashing each other that life sucks and thatās just how it is.
āThoseā people ā you know, the ones who went for their āunrealisticā dreams and took the risks of following their dreams and are now living quite happily ā they only happen every once in a while, and weāre not good enough to ever attain that. So donāt bother trying. You will fail.
We ask why there are so many people living in their mothersā basements, playing video games and refusing to get a job and deal with life.
We ask why there are so many grown adults living with family.
We ask why there are so many men and women who spend every dollar on distractions.
Because weāve been told we can never have a fulfilling, healthy, joyful life filled with meaningful relationships and times of peace. Instead, we’re told…
Everyone has the right to our every moment (we had better answer our phone immediately).
Everyone is better than us.
Work is the only point of life (so donāt bother trying to have a life ā just work, and never expect to get paid enough to do much more than struggle not to drown).
Love hurts, settle for whoever will put up with you.
You canāt change. Donāt bother trying. It doesnāt matter that you want to grow and become ā youāre who you are and can never gain skills or successes.
Life sucks. Donāt fight it.
Can we stop asking why so many people are sleep walking through life and committing suicide.
Can we stop making fun of people for having mental health issues, employment issues, for living with family, for trying to escape the life theyāve been told will never amount to anything and will always 100% only hurt.
Can we START treating each other with respect, dignity, and compassion?
Can we START lifting others up, filling them with the strength to create the lives they want to live?
Can we START influencing people to tap into the potential they have lying dormant within themselves?
Can we START valuing people and dreams and belief?
Can we START making life worth living?