I’m not sure if it’s just me but does everyone feel as if the world has become uninteresting and boring? The reason for this blog is that I have binged a lot of YouTube videos with people expressing their own concerns when it comes this a broken world and the lack of positives. The same issues as me. I’m starting to think there is something tangible to this phenomenon. I know I’m not the only person who feels like this. If you were born in the early to mid 80’s this blog is for you. Nothing excites me. There is nothing that makes me happy. There’s nothing to look forward to. Everything has been done.
I live in one of the luckiest countries in the world experiencing one of the most fascinating periods of time and change in history. I should have nothing to complain about but this feeling I constantly have is real and going by other peoples blogs and YT videos, others feel it too. I’m starting to think there is something more to it.
I’m not sure if it’s because I’m getting old? If it is the medications I swallow? It could be a governmental agenda where they are spraying the sky, pumping fluoride into the water or the poisons in the foods we eat. There could be a connection to mobile phones and cell towers? Perhaps Wi-Fi? Maybe it’s the rubbish we watch online which seems to all be negative. I’m not sure if people watch mainstream news on the TV anymore but this can be awfully depressing, Social media? Working a job you hate? I don’t know? These are all just guesses but it wouldn’t surprise me if at least one of these is adding to the depressive mood so many of us seem to be going through. I just feel down and empty.
Remember when there were good movies and music? Each year there must have been at least one quality movie to come out at the cinemas. I’ve fallen out of touch with current movies because it all crap. The standard has really dropped. The same could be said for music. There used to be great, talented musicians but where are they today? They have died out. There are a few big names hanging on. Tool, Pearl Jam etc. type of groups who have been around for decades. I miss the days when I could walk into a music store and walk out with a bunch of CD’s (Remember them?). Yes, I know all generations complain about how good things were and how bad things have become but it’s true! The world has lost it’s colours and it is now so dull and bleak.
It is the small things I miss as a child. Getting a Ninja Turtles figurine, a chocolate bar from the convenience store, birthdays, Christmases and easter. Playing with insects and digging up worms. I have fond memories of travelling to Frankston to visit my grandparents and play with all my cousins. I would feel like the luckiest kid alive if I got to own a pair of Nike sneakers or wear a brand name piece of clothing. Going for bike rides. Riding and racing my motorbikes. Socialising with friends. The list goes on and on. Like everybody, I have such great memories. I didn’t realise at the time how good that period of time really was. It almost makes me emotional to think about all of the joys I got to enjoy as a child
I have young nephews and they seem to be perfectly happy most of the time. Maybe because they need to gain a few years before coming to the realisation their screwed. They are rightfully protected from most of the detrimental aspects of this world. I hate to think what the world is going to look like by the time they reach my age, that’s if we don’t wipe ourselves out by then through war or some catastrophic natural disaster which is a real threat too. They’re too young to worry about these things. What I’d do to be their age again… then again I wouldn’t want to go through some of the hardships we go through as adults again.
I don’t want to play the pessimist but I am but I’m also a realist. It feels like we’re well over due for something big. Something that would make 9/11 (inside job) look like nothing at all. I’m sure there is some correlation between how we feel today and a potential disaster of a monumental size just around the corner. I could be wrong but with how messed up the world is right now nothing would surprise me.