I feel like I don't belong to this time?

[Anonymous]

Idc if they had poor water or diseases back then. We still do, just in a different way.

Today's way of living does not fit me at all, and it seems like it's me against the rest of the world. I grew up (and live in) a major city, and everything and everyone is so dirty. People smoke, drive too fast, they don't care about you or your feelings, they do everything they can to get in front in one way or the other and to make money. People go to night clubs to get drunk and f*** strangers. Everyone seem so unserious and like they don't care.

I don't know if if it's just my generation, this town, or this country. But my generation do seem like fools. (I'm 18). Even though I might have a lot of money in comparison to people in Iraq or Africa, I don't spend them on bullsh*t (or redbull) like most of my peers. New Iphone even though I already have 1,2,3,4 and every other HTC available? No problem? New PC every 3 months? No problem! Smoke 20 cigerattes a day because you're young and "free"? No problem!

I feel out of place and I don't seem to ever get on the same line with people on my age. They're so soaked up on money, girls, cars and every other non-serious business available.

Where I live, everything is so dirty. I feel dirty just by walking down the street. I walk down the stars filled with smoke from my neighbours, jumping over the bottle on the floor leaking beer. Then I go down the street, a fat dude in a suit looking ever so depressed with a smoke in his hand, slowly killing himself, hating his life, because he spends 8 hours a day in front of a computer, then drives home and watches TV. Further down the street, my eye catches a McDonald's. I won't even start on that one...

All my life I've been very good to other people. From I was born I have always been extremely kind and caring for other people. But I'm starting to feel ruined in some way, because of the media and m peers. It is like the world has made me cynical. Not tough. Not stronger. But like a robot. It seems to me that (young) people do not value the correct things in life. It's hard to explain.

I don't have a lot of money, but I know what to do with those that I have. If I had 1k $, I would go on a vacation. Or buy a new musical instrument. Anything but an Iphone, Ipad or some very expensive clothes. No one seems to share my opinions, feelings or ideas.

The vulgarity of everyday life is another that's so thing so frustrating for me. The evil and corrupted in the media. Turn on MTV, have a black dude (no offense) smack some girl's butt with a bass in the background; that's today's music and the culture young people grow up with. Why don't anybody stop this sex show?

On the 22th July, as I walked down the dirty streets my eyes caught the newspapers with photos from Utøya and young people's bodies floating in the water. I felt like something broke inside of me, getting all this thrown in my face. I didn't read newspapers for a very long time afterward. Something is def. wrong.

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Too much TV and PC as a child, and no family gatherings around the table for dinner. I feel soulless

[ElijahCynicism]

You think it's just us? Okay, let's scale back very slowly. Remember the 90s? Yeah, Generation X, and all? Right. Before that: Punk. Yeah yeah, anti-consumerist - the biggest part of punk was taking speed and sniffing glue, KNOWING it could all kill you, and not caring. In Britain, Punk was the most predominant attitude teenagers and young adults adopted. Scale back 10 years, the late 60s. Acid Wave, etc. Everyone likes the image of an entire generation of suburban teenagers trying to reach enlightenment, but that, again, was very little to do with it. It was 5 solid years of hardcore drug abuse. Go back to the 1940 and 50s, need I MENTION the amount of cigarettes. 20s-30s, two things; Harlem, Jazz Age. Everyone under 30 was getting drunk and stoned off their t*ts, illegally, every day, and pretty much not working. Across the sea,

WEIMAR REPUBLICA

READ about that sh*t.

Skip back a couple decades, fin de siecle across Europe and America - the term 'decadence' was coined. Everyone was fat, everyone was bourgeoise, everyone was hateful, everyone had syphilis.

How far back do I have to go? DECADENCE IS NOT NEW. THIS IS NOT NEW. If you're idolising some totally insane backwater period of history like the Feudal age or the Reinassance, I need only remind you that at that time your life belonged solely to the government, and you had, essentially, no free will - ANYWHERE. The only thing before that is Ancient Rome, Greece, the Goths and the Vikings and, best of all, the Celts, and if you're going to draw a contrast between their way of life and our way of life I'm gonna *laugh* at you.

Stop being nostalgic for a mythological period of time. It was never the way you wanted it to be. Go and do something *productive*, instead of moping.

[kambo_trick3y]

You got a good head on your shoulders kid. Don't lose it, your type is a dying breed.

Now here's the question you really gotta ask yourself.

You're one of the few who sees that the portrait is messed up. So, what're you going to do to fix it?

[Asker]

Hi, thanks for your answer (if it's not totally sarcastic :p).

What I'm going to do?

Well, first of all, I'd post here to find out if anyone else feels like me :)

[kambo_trick3y]

It's not sarcastic.

Well, by posting on here, you've already accomplished nothing. Don't take this in the wrong or mean way, allow me to elaborate. There's a certain solace that can be found in finding someone who is akin to you. That's all well and good, and while it makes us feel all warm and fuzzy on the inside, in the end the problem is still there. People still value the things they shouldn't, and the people who DO value the right things often get the shaft.

[kambo_trick3y]

So, knowing this, I'm willing to bet a guy like you doesn't truly feel at peace with things unless the problem is solved. No menial words or temporary shelter from finding someone like you will truly bring you peace.

So, asking the question again. How do you plan on solving the true cause to your inner turmoil. The ACTUAL issues of society?

[Asker]

You seem smart, and I totally agree on what you're saying. However, when trying to share my philosophy with my peers, I just get 'the look', or told that I'm gay.

I honestly don't know what could be done. Do you?

[kambo_trick3y]

Don't bother, it's like trying to explain Calculus to a monkey. You'll save yourself anguish by reserving this kind of talk for the people who can handle it. I'm sure you're observational enough to find them.

Might I recommend traveling abroad? This doesn't solve the issue, but it allows you to get a better hone in on what the problem is and to experience a life away from it. It was one of the lessons I learned when I traveled to Cambodia years ago.

[kambo_trick3y]

If I can impart some advice that I personally learned and still apply from traveling. It's that while the issues of society are perpetual, one of the beautiful things about life is that we can always create our own slice of it in our part of our world.

Take me for example. One of my dreams that I am currently working on is creating a program that connects businesses and schools with homeless shelters. Like a half-way program.

[Asker]

Thanks a lot for your input. It's appreciated.

Travelling abroad sounds like a rich experience. I actually have had that in mind for some time now. Only problem with that is my school, and possibly money...

And thanks for your advice. I will keep it in mind.

Good luck with your project!

[kambo_trick3y]

Yeah, good luck to yourself as well. Pick a country that doesn't focus as much on Capitalism. It's true what they say that "suffering breeds character." Trust me, very few things are refreshing for the soul than waking up to a bunch of people who know that the most important things in life isn't getting the new Iphone or putting on tons of make up.

Then again you can always freeze yourself in a block of ice like Captain America. Wake up in another time.

[Anonymous]

Boohoo, cry more. That's how the world has always been, you just don't see it that way as a kid.

[Asker]

What a retarded post from an ignoramus

But I forgot, street shootings were everyday life back in the 1800's

[Opinion Owner]

You need to do your research dumbass, people used to die way younger in the 1800's before modern medicine. The average person was lucky to live past 40

[Asker]

You didn't even read what I wrote. So nevermind.

[Opinion Owner]

Actually I did and I know how you feel, but I'm just in a trolling mood lol. But seriously life was not perfect back then either. People did die over the smallest infections and murders and crazy sh*t still happened. We just hear more about it now because the news is global whereas back then they only heard local news and not things happening far far away. Take it or leave it that's just how it is.

[ElijahCynicism]

"But I forgot, street shootings were everyday life back in the 1800's"

You're actually like, joking, here, seriously. Mercenaries/bandits of the Western Frontier, and the GOLDEN AGE OF PIRACY.

[ElijahCynicism]

Also, since you're on the 1800s - in your answer, you continually slag off smoking as a serious problem. Need I remind you OPIUM, in the 1800s, was a much bigger industry than todays cigarette industry? Cocaine was a close rival. You talk about people whittling their lives away in front of a television - need I remind you of Cabarets and Vaudville acts that are, in essence, the exact same thing, that were just as popular and commercial as MTV?