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Javaman

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Sun Jun 15, 2025, 11:42 AM Jun 15

What is wrong with us [View all]

Just a general thought I have everyday now

I wake up look to the headlines and ask this very simple question, “what is wrong with us?”

I’m not looking for an answer per se, it’s just a sigh of grief mantra now.

I feel as if I’m caught in a whirlwind of chaotic highs and lows.

Historically norms of general emotions have lost their purpose due to an ever growing list of sad and horrible things and events.

How does one keep up rationally?

I see children, young men and women at the protest yesterday and I think, “I’m here for their future. I have to keep trying”

I won’t live long enough to experience the new undefined horrors they will witness.

I look at my granddaughter; my heart breaks for her.

I keep it together for my beautiful wife. I keep it together to be that person, she can rely on.

But I keep asking myself, the fundamental question, the royal “we”…

What is wrong with us?


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What is wrong with us [View all] Javaman Jun 15 OP
There is nothing wrong with us. bucolic_frolic Jun 15 #1
I like that. 👍 underpants Jun 15 #4
Thanks bucolic_frolic Jun 15 #7
And. kozar Jun 15 #8
Very much so ✅ underpants Jun 15 #10
Everything is so hyped , its " the sky is falling" everyday. It works on a person. The headlines are grossly Srkdqltr Jun 15 #2
That's a great outlook 👍 underpants Jun 15 #3
Ignorance. Kid Berwyn Jun 15 #5
It's not just you. I'm feeling very much the same & many others join us. Maru Kitteh Jun 15 #6
Apathy ignorance and selfishness The Third Doctor Jun 15 #9
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