I was talking to Mr Ash about this today.

Considering how the last 10 years have turned out, I'm pretty optimistic for the next 40 - on a personal level.

probably better than the void

Covid restrictions?

Climate change lockdowns?

40 more years looks OK. It's the 10 after that (if I have to endure them) that look a bit pants. 

I'm so confused.

I thought this was the run down to death...

The last 6 years have been for 80% of the time, the worst of my life

One crisis after another

-sh1t job and stress/breakdown

-parental breakdown during mum near fatal illness, mum sent to care home , family polarised /broken down beyond repair with basically every interpersonal relationship damaged

-covid/lockdown (shared with the world I know and ironically it ended up ameloriating the first two)

-sh1t job and stress/breakdown II following takeover of current job

All with general existential dread building up in the background knowing I'm wasting what should be prime years with this sh1t

@LG - that sounds cr@p. Genuinely hope that your thinking (including the existential dread) will lead to a reset and some new oportunities.

Restrictions will remain in place forever 

remember when u were scared to go on the tube?

Remember things that never happened?

That’s having a Clergham

Na I reckon the OP will not be on ROF in 40 years 

This is a golden age for humanity 

What better period has there ever been?

Surely Labour will get their act together at some point before then and kick out the Tories?

Worrying about politics and (often media exaggerated) global crises seems like priveliged worry to me, almost always

I will never ever expect a politician or change of government to change my life or improve anything

The amount of angst exuded over these things which are 99.9% out of our hands on here, is a constant source of bafflement to me

Hard agree for gaga there

I will never ever expect a politician or change of government to change my life or improve anything‘

maybe but they can definitely fvck things up

ask anybody now paying the Truss Tax

I remember when I couldn't bear to travel on the Tube because the air in every carriage was opaque with cigarette smoke.