Published on 12, July, 2020
Just find the future looks so bleak at times I'm lucky as still live my parents I'm not high functioning and I'm just ASD. Struggle with understanding things like bills and budgeting I guess along with getting work. My disability isn't visible or one you can here so it's hard to exsplain it to regular people and get any understanding from them. Is there support you can get for when your parents eventually pass. There not going anywhere anytime soon luckily as there only in there 60's but I almost feel like I wouldn't know how to survive or cope without them. Suffer baddly from anxiety don't go out because of it that and I don't have ideal social skills so usually end up offending people not on purpose but because I can come across as as a bit blunt and opinated but the future genuinely terrifies me.
The future hasn't been made yet. When it arrives, it'll be now.
I've always pretty much lived in the moment, not thinking about the future a great deal. That's probably why I'm skint and have no retirement plans, something I'm working on right now, finally, and probably too late.
Due to some personal experiences, I learned early on that we could drop dead at any moment so there were no guarantees, only hopes. Live in the now. It's the only thing we've got. The future is what we create, so choose wisely.
Having said that, I'm Gen X, the best generation, the Slacker Generation, the apathetic nihilist generation, hahaha. I probably embraced those tropes a bit too much, but hey, why not?
Blackouts, winter of discontent, we had an outside toilet and no central heating, punk (yay), grapes were a luxury that you only got if you were sick, Reagan and Thatcher, the beginnings of greed as a 'positive' attribute, people thought Boy George was a strange looking woman. And, for quite a while, the very real possibility of nuclear annihilation.
Of course, there were many other terrible conflicts and social ills all around the world, and still are.
It was a wonderful time to be alive.
Nothing much changes, we are human.
But judging things from back then, NOW is a pretty good future. If we're careful, we could make the next future even better.
I was there too... the 80's were the greatest decade in my opinion.
I do look back with fondness, but that period definitely left a mark
I do enjoy the healthy level of cynicism that it seemed to leave many of us with. Sometimes when I tell much younger people about grapes, Boy George, tape cassettes, and nuclear threat etc, they think I'm taking the p*ss.
Fun times. But nostalgia is always somewhat rosey, haha.
And, of course, our view will always be skewed by socioeconomics. But it definitely felt like a true period of change and possibility. But I was young, and shortly after, the reality of adult life began to set in hahaha.
I'm certain it was the last real time (up until the mid-80's at least) that humans enjoyed their last gasp of freedom. It was the last time that people could still be true individuals, and were still free to have independant thoughts that diverged from corporate orthodoxy, it was not long after that the architects of Neoliberalism swallowed the Media, bought off Academia, sponsored The Arts and funded Science, leading us blindly out of the semi-chaos of democratic capitalism into the consumer-slavery of Corporate fascism that we live under today.