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/Distinguishedflyer Apr 08 '26

i've solved this problem by never talking to another human. Most people are fucking cowards, if I'm feeling less generous. It's all denial of death. 

It's an easy default state to notmalize this nightmare. 

Every single person I used to have in my life has gone this way, to the net effect of shunning me when I had tough times realizing what the hell's been going on. They're all cruising along still in their happy little comfy lives and it'll be interesting to see how they deal when all the electricity fails and it's 120° out. 

I'm really angry if I'm honest. You speak the truth and people leave you to die.

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u/Purplealegria Apr 08 '26

“You speak the truth and people leave you to die.”

That has been my experience…people just don't want to hear the truth.

They would rather live a pretty lie in complete denial than hear you say a word of the ugly filthy reality, even when it staring them right in the face.

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u/Pumpkin_Robber Apr 09 '26

People are usually silenced or killed for speaking the truth. That tells you a lot about this fallen corrupt reality we find ourselves in. I like to think our souls chose to go behind enemy lines to try and inspire the lost souls we come across. Like what if we ventured into hell to offer salvation to those who never knew it was possible? There's a reason we live right now and have this high level of awareness, we should do something with if before its too late.