Why does every day feel like the Hunger Games
Posted by therobfox@reddit | GenX | View on Reddit | 9 comments
I’ll be 50 this year and nearly all my friend group has died. Heart attacks, cancer, suicide, you name it, it has taken so many people. Two years ago I lost 13 close friends and family. This year it’s been 6 already. I’m running out of friends.
GatorOnTheLawn@reddit
Did all your friends have COVID repeatedly? Because that shit will come and get you long after your initial infection.
Lost-Zookeepergame61@reddit
Or conversely why are boomers living till 95+???!?!?
Minimum_Current7108@reddit
Im down to 1 and he’s not a ride or die so im flying solo😞 i know how you feel 🙏🏻
RCA2CE@reddit
Bro did you grow up near a nuclear plant? Flint Michigan? WTH
whatcouchsaid@reddit
Lives under power lines, on top of other power lines, on old Native American burial sites, in a house stolen from gypsies.
wyocrz@reddit
I've buried quite a few people, but the hardest was a very young man unrelated to me.
I've been through the ringer in life, and I remember talking to this kid, who was exceedingly kind to me in that social situation. He was waxing poetic about the value of never having to feel pain; I was like, dude, life is pain, that's required to see the beauty, yadda yadda yadda.
He was convinced that his life would be better lived if he didn't see his parents die, didn't see his sisters betrayed, didn't fall ill himself: and he actually did it, he made sure he never would.
It's hard to overstate the rage I felt. I get it, intellectually, and even emotionally: none of us are in anyone else's head, I get it, I really do.
But it was such a betrayal of life itself for this young man to throw his own life away, a life that I told him to his face I would have killed for.
MaximumJones@reddit
You lost THIRTEEN close friends and family????
Life_Transformed@reddit
It was definitely a period of adjustment, I’m older GenX, I have lost all of the close family members, and even lost one in their 30s (I didn’t ask b/c obv a drug overdose). My husband passed away, my daughter went off to college, then the company I worked for was failing and I got laid off, and I had to start a new job and try to hold it together. It was so bad for a while. I made it through all that, although at the time I didn’t know how I was going to make it.
yodamastertampa@reddit
Yeah. Lost alot of family last ten years too. Sad.