Air travel. I do it, I’ve been doing it all my life, but it’s basically a series of opportunities for something to get screwed up and waste your whole day, lose and/or destroy your stuff, end up stuck overnight in a smelly terminal with no food or bed, and maybe get puked on by someone’s baby or your junk grabbed by a dude in a fake police uniform.
Hey now, getting my junk grabbed is a perk buddy.
Especially by a dude in a fake police uniform.
Realizing, that my condition health-wise is probably not going to improve miraculously and is partially unbearable right now.
Definitely not the one thing, but: Pets.
I saw a cat yesterday, just chilling on an empty road out in the fields. I switched to the other side of the road, because I didn’t want to scare it off, but as I passed it, it fucking meowed at me, like “Pet me?”.
Which, you know, seems like a reasonable request. And I would have liked to. But I don’t even know how to do the baby/pet voice, let alone how to break out of the whole manly man spiel.
Well, and then there’s dogs, which are much worse than that. Most either interpret me not interacting with them as me fearing them, so they become aggressive, or they’re the cuddly/curious type, immediately walking up to me for pets.
The fear of being left alone by everyone, because i don’t always adapt to peoples expectations now, like i kinda did my whole life. I know at the end of the day the people who realy matter will stay, but it hurts feeling like someone who once was your friend may be talking trash about you behind your back, because of misunderstanding and things that changed.
Currently I would say the fear of unemployment. Getting a good paying job is difficult day by day.
In Germany it’s starting to get hard to find employees. Our demographic is fucked.
The company I work for offers 35h per week / 30 days of vacation plus 6 additional days that you can either take or transform into money / work from home (if you wish) / paid overtime / paid travel time / good travel compensation / a very, very strong union (IG Metall) / subsidized meals / very good pay (for German standards) etc.
Yet we have a hard time finding people. It’s a bummer but I believe the young people don’t really have anything to work for. Nice housing is scarce and way too expensive, excessive consumption just fuels the climate catastrophe so no point in amassing shit no one really needs. They just want to have some time to themselves and don’t give a shit about leading a comfortable life. And I fully understand them. If it weren’t for my daughter I’d have sold the house and all meaningless shit and lead a healthy life instead of working for some dipshit just to make said dipshit richer.
I see. I think that this is happening almost everywhere. Neo-liberalism’s tactics are hitting hard societies that are implementing it. But yet again, sell everything and lead a healthy life, where and how…?
I don’t necessarily mean to live like a nomad or something similar. I mean to cut working hours in half for example and just come to terms with living in a shitty apartment. With more spare time on your hands, you can be outside more, do more sports, pick up hobbies (not all hobbies need to be expensive). Just live a more modest life but put the focus on yourself instead of work. Most people with well paying jobs grow accustomed to the luxury they can afford, which makes it difficult to go back to the level of comfort one used to have when they were students for example. I was happy as a student, I was also dirt poor. But happy!
