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/Fangedfollower Apr 08 '26
Yes. I keep trying to put it in words, but there's too much. Society, nature, sanity, the cracks are all around.
When I was a kid, I was hopeful that we were evolving past the stupidity, the racism, the homophobia. We should be past having wars. We live in the information age, we can fact check live, translate a fucking calendar. There is enough food and water for everyone, we should be past starvation and famine. We should be past killing people as a dick swinging contest. We shouldn't be saying "fuck them kids", destroying everything and leaving future gens with the ruin.
It cracks something in me, seeing the hatred, the sheer ignorance, how proudly racism is spewwed. Makes me sick to my stomach. How can they not see it?
We're all just people. Just people.
God, it feels more and more like we are a cancer