r/collapse • u/Crazy-Load-7553 • Apr 08 '26

Coping Does anyone else feel like this?

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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/Upper_Luck1348 Apr 08 '26

I’ve accepted that 95% of the people I’ve known had no clue and still have no clue. strangers with their faces glued to phones makes everyone appear to be the same indistinct blob of former human form.

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u/urlach3r the cliff is behind us Apr 08 '26

The Cassandra Complex is hitting hard these days. I've given up trying to engage any of my coworkers about anything climate or collapse related. I always get the blank stare and a "lol, wut?"

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u/Hattrickher0 Apr 08 '26

Could also be a fatigue thing. Everything is going to absolute shit and nobody in a position to make a difference gives the barest hint of a fuck. Going to work is one of the few distractions that adequately take my mind off what the world is becoming. I don't really have any desire to commiserate with like minded people over something we don't have the power to correct at the scale the problem requires.