Why do people still not protesting about shorter working time? I get home just to work again. Life is meaningless and not worth living for this way. Why be slaves to the people who can still pay our regular rates even if we work 5 hours daily. Are people okay living like this til you die? Do people even want their children to be so much happier in the future or are they okay with just being abused?

29M have been struggling since having children. Have 2 under 2 and I almost feel like the world and my family would be better off without me.

I believe I’ve done the things I’m suppose to do as a man/husband/father. I’ve been to prison and I turned my life around. Had a good job, bought a house, put a ring on my wife’s finger, play and read to my little girls. I’m not happy. I feel like a stranger in my own home, my wife says I do the bare minimum and it’s discouraging when you feel like you’re doing your best and people still aren’t happy with you.

I have these feeling that I do not understand or know how to cope with and then I realize I have children I have to take care of and responsibilities are more important than my feelings.

Mine is going to work all day, filling up my car even though I could have left it another day and showering even though I was in pain before I went to bed early with a very sore ribcage and back. Celebrate the small things

Feeling ok a bit bored but ok.

I may need advice when I ask this but why is it so hard to feel good about anything. For example, I’m doing Amazon driver and a real estate photographer but I think I’m a failure still. It might be because idk what I want to do in life, and it makes me feel horrible bout myself. I’m looking to get into a trade but just don’t know because life is a mystery to me. I’ve got maybe a semester left in my associates for business that I never finished and just started working alot. Any advice would be appreciated I’m just a lil lost in life. Ty in advance

Hey everyone, hope you are great, si basically what the tittle says, I am 20f and I am scared of the future, I am working hard for having a good future, finishing my career, I am studying computer engineering, I take care of my friends because I love them and I try to take care of my relationships.

But I am afraid of the future, I am afraid of being alone in the future, I am afraid of being a failure, I am afraid of not having a family in the future and that anxiety and afraid makes me feel horrible.

If anyone has some advice, or someone feels like me, every comment is more than welcome. Thanks a lot.

At this point. I just can't. I can be friends with a woman my age in their 20s but meh there's never going to be that love or fondness that I have for older women. I wish I could but meh. I feel much more myself and comfortable. They make me feel strong. I honestly don't care if I have to be a stepdad either. I've gained more patience as I've gotten older. Yeah I don't have a lot of dating experience but people will look past a lot if they like the person. Idk.

(22f) I really want a family of my own. A husband and multiple children. I’ve always wanted my own happy + healthy family since the family I was born into is very unhealthy + dysfunctional. However, the world seems like such a terrible place to being kids into now + I feel I must dedicate my life to bettering the world, or at least my country (US), instead of worrying about something like starting my own family, which seems unimportant compared to the state of the country. Like I said, I’ve always wanted my own little family, it’s felt like my life purpose at times.. to be a loving mother raising loving, compassionate children with my equally loving + compassionate husband. When I’ve expressed this to people close to me, they tell me to move to another country to live my life, but that feels so wrong to me. I don’t want to abandon all the people suffering more than me just because I have the means to. I want to stay + help + make an actual difference. I really just can’t turn a blind eye to the suffering but sometimes I feel like I have to choose between my dreams of a happy, healthy family life or a life dedicated to fighting the good fight.

I’m sure my thinking is a little skewed right now as I’m feeling quite emotional, but has anyone felt this way? Any thoughts?

Some of the posts here of young people struggling is really heartbreaking, and I wanted to share my thoughts after living over 40 years on this planet.

Every struggle you face is temporary, and whatever you are going through right now is very likely to be totally irrelevant in 10 years time.

Try to learn from your struggles and try to figure out how you can avoid them in the future.

Nothing matters if you are unhealthy, physically or mentally, so take good of yourself.

Maxing out financial opportunities is crucial to have a comfortable life later. Work your ass off before you have children yourself, so that you can have time for your own kids.

Change your environment if needed, moving to another place and starting from scratch is like having a new life.

Just some random thoughts from an internet stranger, take care all!

I always hear about good and innocent people dying young and suffering horrific deaths, while horrendous people live such long lives and it grinds my gears like no other. How do you cope with hearing all the tragedy in this world and do you believe there's any justice in this world?

What is one thing you regret till this day and you always wish didn't happened.

Hi everyone,

I’m 33 years old, from India, and currently on a vacation in Vietnam. As I’m riding a bus from Nha Trang to Ho Chi Minh City, I thought it would be a good time to share some simple yet powerful lessons I’ve learned in life so far.

Frankly, there are many, but these three stand true for almost every aspect of life: 1. What goes around comes back around. 2. It’s always good to be and do good. 3. Almost nothing is in your control.

These lessons are based on my own experiences. You might relate to them or not—it’s up to you.

But for me, they’ve helped me: • Find peace in my actions and the results. • Stay hopeful in life. • Always strive to treat people well.

That’s it. Plain and simple.

Thanks for reading, and I hope this resonates with some of you. Bye! Would like to know if you have any life lessons like this in just one line.

It rained. I encountered some shitty , negative people. I had a long day at work, did a workout and ate some good food. It’s always a good day, don’t let life get inside your head people. Own your mind and anything is possible. Did you guys do anything exciting today ? Let me know (:

I know the pandemic is the biggest factor that changed the world no doubt. But it really changed the world in such a way that even though there hasn’t been a lockdown for a few years now, we thought things would go back to normal after the lockdowns and measures but it didn’t. The pandemic created this strange energy in 2020 and it seems like it’s here to stay. I guess maybe even before 2020, life might have not been normal but after having experienced a whole pandemic, I think it’s safe to say that life truly is weird now and life before 2020 was definitely “normal” compared to these times we’re living in. I’d love to know what you guys do in your day to day life to try and beat this weird energy that has come into our lives?

I’ve seen a few TikTok stories where individuals have sought revenge on others even years after the fact

In my mind - seeking revenge means that you’re so emotional over someone else that you’ll go to great lengths to harm them in order to feel better about yourself

Similar to the adage “hurt people hurt people”

So in a way - that person that became a victim of revenge had some perceived power over another or an affect on someone else and because the revenge seeker felt hurt by them, they felt a need to kick them down or harm them

Otherwise it wouldn’t make sense to repeatedly kick someone that was never high up there to begin with, that didn’t matter to you, that didn’t have an affect on you / over you

But true “revenge” happens by living your life and being unbothered by them - showing that you can exist in a mature way or never allowing yourself to be placed in the same environment

23M I see everyone posting how 2024 has been good to them but for me i was stuck trying to better my life which i still am but it will take some more time to obtain my goals. everyday i wake up i see another person hitting a milestone and im so happy for them but im disappointed in myself because i dont know whats happening i dont know what i’m doing i feel so behind in life if only i started certain things earlier i would be in a better position now can anyone advise me how to get over these thoughts and be positive.

I've heard this a few times, mostly in jobs, but I think it was one of the smarter things I've heard "don't bring up a problem unless you have a solution". Well we have lots of problems in this world but very few solutions. What would yours be? I'll go first.. and obviously this doesn't encompass all problems, just the first few that flew into my head.

1st would be a cut off for what buisiness could earn in relation to their lowest paid employees. Something like the top 5% of any company could only make idk 200% more than their lowest paid employee or something. This should remove the need for a min wage and cover cost of living increases. It's not a fully formed idea but a good foundation i think.

2nd would be that no financial entity should be allowed any interference or inclusion with politics. Yes there's already laws in place but every time they ever created one of those laws they went out of their way to leave loopholes, I'm saying close all loopholes and lock that door forever. Govt is govt and buisiness is buisiness and the two should be separated. A buisiness or businesses running a country would not be a good thing as can be observed all around us.

3rd would be laws that remove all financial repercussions and instead have harsher punishments and those punishments would be equal for all regardless of social or financial status.

4th would be granting status of something akin to civil servant status to large corporations employing a specific large number of persons as at that point they're literally providing jobs to the public. Landlords too as they are providing housing. No more using things that people need like housing and jobs just to make yourself rich.. which will still happen but much more strict rules regarding how badly you get to rip people off when it comes to jobs and housing. Mostly this one is to highlight that no one is an island, rather you're providing jobs and housing or taking your morning BM we all effect each other and have a responsibility to this society and to others and that our actions matter as a whole far more than individually.

That's just the few in my head rn. I got a solution to just about everything. I'm sure others do too and for all the bitching we do, I sure don't hear many solutions. In fact mostly I hear "let's sweep it under the rug and ignore it" because that's ever been a problem solving skill that worked...

I truly do believe there is a solution for every problem and most often it's not the solution that's the hardest part, it's other people.

I've noticed a lot of the posts in this sub have been talking about how life has been different since COVID, and one of the things I've noticed is the nature of people just hanging out. I was constantly told, and also I myself experienced, on how frequently people would hang out on a whim whenever someone was bored or something. Nowadays, it's let's schedule this time block like two weeks in advance. And people even find it annoying that someone would even dare ask to do something that day or even the next day. It just feel so formal. Granted yeah people are busy and tired, but it's not like people weren't busy and tired in the past either. If you're not free, you're not free. No need to be appalled that someone wanted to actually spend time with you at that moment. The other day, I was just relaxing at home and really didn't feel like doing anything. Then a friend asked if I wanted to come over at that minute, and I found it really refreshing that I actually did leave my house immediately.

I just have such a hard time taking actions like the entire 7 years of my life has been gone to waste. Literally keep dwelling on the past and seems like I'm self victimization myself. Just because I failed in the past, I'm using this as an excuse which has now turned into fear, shame and anxiety. Gosh all I wanna do is work on my life. Yes I wanna go to college, get a job and learn driving so I can be independent adult. I feel like loser staying at home all day using phone being in discord and Instagram. I'm wasting my life, my future and critical time. I'm supposed to be working and going to college, making friends. But here I am overthinking and asking myself dumb questions like what is life and my purpose. Why do we have to work and make money.

I have two congenital diseases that require constant monitoring at intervals from healthcare professionals. I am 27. I need insurance. I recently left my old job and am now paying $888 a month to COBRA to keep said insurance. I was going to switch to a new individual plan, but it turns out the sub-500 dollar options don’t cover NEARLY what I need covered. In fact, the out-of-pocket limits would have me losing 8k a year anyway. So really I would need a 700 dollar individual plan if I don’t get it through my next job (which will make me wait for months to enroll into, by the way). And Medicaid (family care, Obamacare, whatever) isn’t an option if you plan on making more than 1500 a month. Good luck living on that if you’re going to limit yourself to a 1500 “household income”.

I’m sorry, but this is nuts. We aren’t even talking about my living expenses here. And you want me to pay the equivalent of a brand new high end car payment just so I don’t owe thousands out of pocket every time I need a scan? Or worse, if my doctor decides I may need brain surgery for my Chiari Malformation.

I don’t care about ANY OTHER financial issue in this country right now because a stronger economy and higher average wages would just allow these insurance companies to rip us off EVEN MORE. I can’t think of any issue that affects more Americans at once than this crappy private healthcare system.

I was hoping that this whole Luigi vs. UHC CEO thing would result in a conversation about changing healthcare in this country. But it seems to me like they’ll just go back to fucking us over as soon as the news cycle changes topics again.

Sometimes I think that life is very limited because of ourselves. This current system seems to like to limit people and various aspects of life so much. Sometimes I feel like life is losing more and more meaning every day. For example, a day full of work, school, problems, bills. about you? Did you think about living your life in the woods? lol

I just turned 25, I've had two relationships in my life and a handful of hookups. For the most part I feel my luck with girls has been not so in my control in the sense that I've always used dating apps to meet rather than going up to a girl in public.

I want to meet women in person. I'm gonna compliment them and start conversations, this is very exciting for me. I don't wanna be a weirdo and have expectations, I'm pretty good at reading body language and I'm moving on the second I see someone is not interested.

Anyways I'm gonna ask women out on dates, I want to hear people's stories and get to know people on personal levels, seems like a nice time.