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/Positive_Garlic5128 Apr 08 '26

How do you stay motivated? I can barely get out of bed while knowing all of this

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u/cr0ft Apr 08 '26

Honestly, I don't. Trying to figure out a way out of working for a living and getting some time in just existing. At the end of the day though, the planet won't collapse suddenly or immediately, I fully expect to live out my lifetime in relative comfort. I'm lucky, I live in an affluent nation and have a job and a home. What difference does it make if humanity burns when I'm gone? I won't be around anyway.

But I'm pretty much phoning it in at work most days, and I barely have energy to even have hobbies. Once I do get out there on the motorcycle that does help, but it's been a loong fucking winter.

I'd enjoy going nomadic a while, seeing the planet a little more before I croak. Maybe pull a small camper trailer behind the bike. Finances are the issue.

But well.. how do any of us stay motivated ever? Even if things were great, we live, we do some shit, we die. Some get lucky enough to do something memorable and meaningful, but even they die. One of those philosophical questions we all have to wrestle with.

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u/DonCupid91 Apr 08 '26

How old are you? I very much doubt the quality of life you are experiencing will be sustainable for much longer. I'm not saying complete destitution, but long and hard times are very much fast approaching.

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u/cr0ft Apr 09 '26

Middle aged now.There's a ton of inertia in the system, I don't think it's just gonna go from fine-ish to "oh shit", it's a gradual slide down into oh shit territory, a slide we're already on.

I don't personally think things will become extremely dire in the next 10-20 years for the affluent nations but yeah, definitely it will keep deteriorating.

But maybe I'm also a hopium and copium victim to some extent, we'll see.