Things feel especially dire right now. I’m a really anxious person, so things feel scary all the time – but this feels different. People I trust – the adults in the room – are also freaking out.
I have no idea what I can do. I’m just one little human in a sea of humans on this weird planet, in this flaming trashcan of a country, going to work and making weird music and watching Star Trek reruns and doomscrolling and not sleeping enough.
The people that are supposed to be in charge have been checked out for a long time, but it feels so much worse now. Where is everyone? Where are these mythical checks and balances? Where are all the people we voted for? Are they really going to sit by and do nothing while there’s a fucking hostile authoritarian takeover of the US government?
I’m an elder millennial – I was in high school for Columbine and 9/11, my 20’s for the recession, my 30’s for covid, and now my 40’s for this new shit. I’m so, so tired.
I just want to live, and hang out with the people I love, and pet cats, and make art, and maybe find a tiny scrap of stability. I don’t understand how that threatens anybody.