General Discussion

For a brief fleeting moment, a lot of us saw with clarity how little all the "Extra shit" mattered. We took up hobbies. We explored new horizons. We broke out of the oppression of the modern day to day and saw life as worth living for the first time in our lives.

Then reality crashed back in, and we had it all taken from us again. We glimpsed salvation and were only granted damnation. It made us spiteful. It stripped a lot of us of the notion that we had a potential future, knowing that we'd never truly achieve it. It made us ANGRY. And I don't just mean "Younger people" (I just turned 40 last year) because my old man and mom, my wife, and her 80+ year old mother feel the same. That day to day humdrum waste of life just isn't worth it; we became MORE, and then were forced to become LESS to keep society going for the 1%.

I just stopped giving a shit. I know, millions died in the pandemic, but for that year, I was the most serene and at peace I'd ever been. I learned new things, gained new skills, broadened my horizons, expanded my mind, and gained more in that year than in the ten years prior toiling away for pennies.