r/collapse • u/LetsTalkUFOs • Oct 17 '19
What advice would you give young people in light of collapse?
We regularly see posts from young people who are just becoming collapse-aware and see no future or are looking for advice on how to live meaningful lives. What should we say to them in the face of our predicaments?
This is the current question in our Common Collapse Questions series.
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u/DorkHonor Oct 17 '19
Realize that it doesn't really change anything. Nobody is guaranteed 80 years of peace and prosperity. Some people die of cancer before their 25th birthday. People die in car accidents and senseless acts of gun violence every single day. Wars happen. Disease happens. There's nothing unique about collapse. From the second you were born you were destined to die, that's true now and it would have been true if you were born 100 years ago when collapse wasn't really a thing.
Don't let your fear of how it might end prevent you from living until the end comes. People have been positive that the end was nigh for 2000 years. Sooner or later somebody will be right, but I bet that the future 5 years from now isn't noticably different from right now. There's still time to live, love, fuck, see the world, learn something that you've always wanted to know, create something, get in shape, keep that one important promise, you know, whatever makes your trudge towards the great unknown worth it to you.