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and i feel like most people feel the same. society these days is exhausting. we grew up hearing stories and consuming media that told us that if we just work hard enough, we'll make it too. we'll get our backyard, complete with the plum trees and old rocking chair.
but that world doesn't exist anymore.
we're expected to have full-time work - but full-time work doesn't exist anymore, really. i mean, the hours are still there. the job still exists. it's just either casualised and split between 2-3 young, inexperienced people or taken over by a robot.
so we can't work full time. so we work what we can and turn our hobbies into "side hustles", which is just a cute way of saying that we are forced to produce capital in our free-time just to pay rent. ... because we can't afford houses anymore.
btw, join your union. that's what they were supposed to fight against, but they got crushed because our workplaces got better - they were amazing. and we got complacent and left. and now we need them again but they're weak, so join them. "but they cost money!" yeah, they do. and they give it back to you after every win.
and even if we can afford a house as mere mortal mid & lower class people, they're all fucking <i>beige</i>. i am terrified that by time i get my home, all the beautiful features that make it unique and interesting will be ripped out for more fake crap that agents try to tell you are "luxury", yet snap like plastic. luxury is fireplaces, weird nooks, crown molding and interesting carpets. pink tubs and bathrooms.
i think that's the trend i'm hating most. the beige of it all. even art has become boring. music on the radio is all the same beige stuff. and it's hard to find the fun stuff like the tullamarines, vv pete & bad/love.
idk. i'm rambling. but i'm tired. social media, the economy, the lack of joy. everything just makes me sad now and idk how to fix anything on my own. so i joined victoria socialists. i want community to help. i <i>need</i> community to help.
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Accurator
Just stop caring about everything they want you to care about. It's all political smokescreens anyways. Smell the flowers, watch the sunset, drink the wine; life is good, and the world has never not been on fire. That's just the human condition.
twinklelore
Reading this felt like someone put a voice to the quiet exhaustion so many of us carry every day. You’re not rambling, you’re expressing what a whole generation has been quietly suffocating under: the pressure to ‘make it’ in a world that keeps shifting the goalposts. We were sold a dream that turned out to be a ghost, and now we’re expected to build lives out of splinters. That feeling of everything being beige, man, that hit. It’s like even creativity’s being polished into marketable perfection instead of messy, human beauty.But there’s something beautiful in what you said too, the need for community. That’s the spark. In a world that profits off our disconnection and burnout, choosing to seek out others, to organize, to not give in to numbness, that’s resistance. That’s courage.You’re not alone in this, even if it feels isolating. I truly believe that our collective fatigue isn’t weakness, it’s a signal that we’re meant for more than just survival. And maybe that 'more' doesn’t come from fixing the whole world overnight, but from carving out little pockets of joy, weirdness, and rebellion wherever we can. Supporting a friend’s art. Planting something. Laughing when it’s the last thing you feel like doing. And yes, joining something bigger than ourselves, like you did. That matters.Thank you for sharing this, it’s honest, and it’s brave. And maybe that’s where change begins: not in pretending we’re okay, but in daring to say we’re tired... and then daring to keep going anyway, together.
this is such a lovely reply, thank you for taking time out of your day to reply to me! i'm really glad i'm not the only one feeling this.
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