I have for the last year listened to radio 4 Today programme on the way in to work, and PM with Eddie Mayer for the last 1/2 of my journey home but lately just find everything too depressing:
- Brexit
- Trump
- North Korea
- Grenfell Tower
- London & Manchester terror attacks
- NHS crisis
- Chinese oil tanker falling apart
- Landslides in California
- etc...
- etc...
- ...now it's the impending war on plastics and the damage to the environment...
Has the world gone mad? Has everything always felt this bleak and I never noticed? I frequently can't listen to it anymore and often just turn the Radio off and drive in silence.
I find it all so tiring and just want to go back to bed...Am I going mad?
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Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I just don't see the world around me in the same way now...
I have a dream, a plan to escape from it, building an income stream from other more interesting activities, to get the mortgage paid, get debt free, and replace the slave wage income, but it's going to take some time if by some miracle I am actually successful at all.
I listen to all this, and it really puts the day on a downward note. Radio often gets turned off too.
It’s like people get off on that stuff, maybe we’re all so depressed that only seeing something even worse than what we’re going through will make us feel better?
It picks up a bit of a weekend.
No, music and wildlife...the birds in the garden, our 2 cats, the Muntjac deer that we feed and squirrels (we have 5 that often visit all at once to raid the bird feeders of peanuts), woodpeckers, Red Kites overhead in summer, the hedgehog that lives under the shed...
and music, I am now playing The Jam really quite loud.
It is my escape...and booze.
"Intelligence should be our first weapon
stop reveling in rejection
and follow yourselves, not some ageing drain brain
who's quite content to go on feeding you garbage
we're running on the spot - always have - always will
we're just the next generation of the emotionally crippled"
Move along now, nothing to see here.
It was going to be pie in the sky
But the piss stench hallways and broken down lifts
Say the planners dream went wrong
If people were meant to live in boxes
God would have given them string
To tie around theirselves at bed time
To stop their dreams falling through the ceiling"
Of course, I’m completely skint but that’s a small price to pay compared to the shit I used to have to put up with in the corporate world.
Someone thought the same as you in 1989.