(03-06-2021, 06:21 PM)White Owl Wrote: "Online education has grown significantly." that does not mean the level of education has increased, in-fact it actually decreased. According to the Center for Disease Control, the suicide rate and even the rate of hospitalization related to suicide has rose to numbers we have never even seen before. I am in my fourth year of college, since the start of the pandemic, there has been 7 people that I know through college courses kill themselves (2 were childhood friends). I have not dealt with more than two suicides since the start of elementary school, again 7 suicides since just the start of the pandemic alone. Courses are complete ass I haven't learned anything since the pandemic and no one else I know has, in-fact many people simply just dropped out. "The most technologically advanced extraterrestrial vehicle ever constructed landed safely on Mars, and we have real time footage of it landing." That isn't significant to me and also doesn't change anything that is happening down on Earth. In-fact most people probably don't even care as there is people literally sleeping in the street and going hungry at a rate we've also never seen.

(03-06-2021, 06:30 PM)RussEfarmer Wrote:

(03-06-2021, 06:21 PM)White Owl Wrote: "Online education has grown significantly." that does not mean the level of education has increased, in-fact it actually decreased. According to the Center for Disease Control, the suicide rate and even the rate of hospitalization related to suicide has rose to numbers we have never even seen before. I am in my fourth year of college, since the start of the pandemic, there has been 7 people that I know through college courses kill themselves (2 were childhood friends). I have not dealt with more than two suicides since the start of elementary school, again 7 suicides since just the start of the pandemic alone. Courses are complete ass I haven't learned anything since the pandemic and no one else I know has, in-fact many people simply just dropped out. "The most technologically advanced extraterrestrial vehicle ever constructed landed safely on Mars, and we have real time footage of it landing." That isn't significant to me and also doesn't change anything that is happening down on Earth. In-fact most people probably don't even care as there is people literally sleeping in the street and going hungry at a rate we've also never seen.

This was my entire argument. You cannot expect to be happy when you have something positive and only choose to pick out the negatives.

(03-06-2021, 06:30 PM)RussEfarmer Wrote:

(03-06-2021, 06:21 PM)White Owl Wrote: "Online education has grown significantly." that does not mean the level of education has increased, in-fact it actually decreased. According to the Center for Disease Control, the suicide rate and even the rate of hospitalization related to suicide has rose to numbers we have never even seen before. I am in my fourth year of college, since the start of the pandemic, there has been 7 people that I know through college courses kill themselves (2 were childhood friends). I have not dealt with more than two suicides since the start of elementary school, again 7 suicides since just the start of the pandemic alone. Courses are complete ass I haven't learned anything since the pandemic and no one else I know has, in-fact many people simply just dropped out. "The most technologically advanced extraterrestrial vehicle ever constructed landed safely on Mars, and we have real time footage of it landing." That isn't significant to me and also doesn't change anything that is happening down on Earth. In-fact most people probably don't even care as there is people literally sleeping in the street and going hungry at a rate we've also never seen.

This was my entire argument. You cannot expect to be happy when you have something positive and only choose to pick out the negatives.

Do bad things happen? Yeah, duh. Good things happen too. If you only choose to stare at the stuff that makes you feel like a piece of shit, you'll never guess how you're going to feel.

(03-06-2021, 06:47 PM)White Owl Wrote: Yeah true... I'm going crazy someone help  :D :D :D

(03-06-2021, 01:32 PM)White Owl Wrote: Is it just me or does it seem like every single day it is a different story? People no longer want to help someone else out, everything is overly expensive, society has basically went to shit, entire infrastructures failing, etc.
Relative to what? These are all blanket statements that don't really have any basis in reality. Global poverty has fallen 20% since 1980s. [1] War related deaths decreases with each passing year [2][3] Americans have more leisure time than they ever did in the past. [4] People are afforded more rights than ever before.
Things might look bad, but it's really not as black and white as you're making it seem. We've had a rough year with the virus. Things are significantly better than they were 30 years ago. In some areas, they might be worse but overall I'd actually lean more towards progression towards better times.

I can't be the only person who has to have some type of feeling that something ain't right. Heck even when you talk to older folks they will tell you that something seems off and they've never seen something like this in their lifetime. Yeah don't get me wrong the pandemic messed the motion of everything up but society has changed in a way that is just too negative. Does anyone else feel like this? What can you do to get away from this feeling?
Stop consuming news. Delete twitter, delete instagram. Dedicate your time to yourself and developing yourself. Stop wasting your days sleeping until 1pm. Study, learn a new skill, go to the gym. Be the best person you can be, because frankly you can't change the world around you. The only way the world around you changes is if you, as an individual change.

(03-06-2021, 01:44 PM)Lard Lord Jr Wrote: Every day I go on the internet and people make fun of schizophrenics and they don't even understand our struggles

(03-06-2021, 07:46 PM)(j)ax Wrote:

(03-06-2021, 01:32 PM)White Owl Wrote: Is it just me or does it seem like every single day it is a different story? People no longer want to help someone else out, everything is overly expensive, society has basically went to shit, entire infrastructures failing, etc.
Relative to what? These are all blanket statements that don't really have any basis in reality. Global poverty has fallen 20% since 1980s. [1] War related deaths decreases with each passing year [2][3] Americans have more leisure time than they ever did in the past. [4] People are afforded more rights than ever before.
Things might look bad, but it's really not as black and white as you're making it seem. We've had a rough year with the virus. Things are significantly better than they were 30 years ago. In some areas, they might be worse but overall I'd actually lean more towards progression towards better times.

I can't be the only person who has to have some type of feeling that something ain't right. Heck even when you talk to older folks they will tell you that something seems off and they've never seen something like this in their lifetime. Yeah don't get me wrong the pandemic messed the motion of everything up but society has changed in a way that is just too negative. Does anyone else feel like this? What can you do to get away from this feeling?
Stop consuming news. Delete twitter, delete instagram. Dedicate your time to yourself and developing yourself. Stop wasting your days sleeping until 1pm. Study, learn a new skill, go to the gym. Be the best person you can be, because frankly you can't change the world around you. The only way the world around you changes is if you, as an individual change.

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(03-06-2021, 01:44 PM)Lard Lord Jr Wrote: Every day I go on the internet and people make fun of schizophrenics and they don't even understand our struggles

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(03-06-2021, 05:40 PM)matt_st3 (Strongrule) Wrote: Stay out of social media, stay away from big news, and stay out of anything that involves politicians. It’s shocking how many earth shaking events or the doom and gloom just goes away.

(03-06-2021, 06:20 PM)Pbever Wrote: Many of these issues don't directly affect your day-to-day life. If only for your mental health, it'd just be better to not focus on the news and instead focus on what you can control. You can control how you interact with and treat other people, you can control your own health (barring certain medical conditions of course), you can control who's worth being in your life and who isn't, and you can (to a certain degree) control your career or work environment.
I don't know, if there's anything you can take away from this, it's for the best to instead try to ignore the negativity of the 24/7 news cycle and instead focus on yourself and what is in your power. Many of these major problems you listed are far beyond the scope of what a single individual is capable of controlling.