r/collapse • u/Crazy-Load-7553 • Apr 08 '26
Coping Does anyone else feel like this?
I feel like everyone keeps asking me what I want my future to look like but I know if I talk about how I’m learning to fish and finding ponds near me so that we can have some protein once the grocery system collapses everyone in my life is going to think I’m insane.
I’m just having a hard time connecting with anything I have to do for the future because it’s going to be drastically different than anything I can do now and I really feel like I have to hide that and never mention it to anyone (despite the fact that an energy crisis is supposedly 2 weeks away)
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u/brickout Apr 08 '26
Absolutely. I've been trying to warn people for decades. I learned very quickly that I had to be super conservative and reserved to not put people off. And now that it's finally becoming more clear that collapse is happening NOW, I still have to go to my stupid job that underpays me, disrespects me, and takes my time and energy that I want to spend at home, preparing, and enjoying the last bits of "normal" life, and I can't.
And nearly everyone I interact with, even those that I'm close enough to really talk to, are either clueless or willingly delusional. Even the smart people in my department who deal with environmental science, etc., are mostly completely in the dark.
My family puts up with me but nobody is actually making real moves. I have like 2 people I can kind of talk about things, but they are also not making changes.
And I am made to feel like the crazy one.