• fireweed@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    It’s difficult being a millennial and trying to confront the nostalgic feeling (that naturally comes with aging) that “things were better in my youth,” because things objectively were better in my youth.

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      7 days ago

      Also ignorance is bliss and as kids we didn’t give a shit about politics. But in this instance things were 100% better no doubt.

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      I dunno man, there was an atomic cloud over Europe from a reactor meltdown which meant we couldn’t go outside when I was a kid.

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      7 days ago

      Idk, I wanted to kill myself as a kid and don’t now. So personally, the world seems pretty okay to me.