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xQuizate87 t1_j04p5la wrote

Covid aside I feel like the last couple years have been ok.

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bored_on_the_web t1_j0536s6 wrote

I mean there was a ham-fisted coup in America, a war in Ukraine that led to global food shortages, climate change getting worse, a conservative Supreme Court acting like a bull in a china shop with half a century of legal precedents, some genocides going on in Africa, an economic crisis brewing in China, a world cup being held in a country that built all of it's stadiums basically with slave labor, floods in Pakistan, the Taliban taking control of Afghanistan again, riots in Iran-Oh, and Trump is running for president again.

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RexBannerBeerBaron t1_j058rls wrote

Half of your list is just your personal political opinion...

How many years in the past century do you think exist where you can't pick out a list of global atrocities? The world has always been a horrible place for a lot of people, I think these days it wears on people a lot more because we're now exposed to it on a daily basis.

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Corvus_Manufaktura t1_j05y3qm wrote

People really judge their year based on events like this?

I've always judged my years based on how much time I've managed to spend on the things I love doing, how my relationships have grown or deteriorated, new experiences good or bad, how much stress I've faced, how much I've grown as a person or managed to stay in touch with the people I care about.

Things like the war in Ukraine (despite being two countries over), climate change, the political climate of the US are just things I see on the internet that I know are bad but they don't affect my personal life in any way.

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bored_on_the_web t1_j0b68yk wrote

You might not think it's affected you but it most certainly has and will continue to do so.

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Corvus_Manufaktura t1_j0bb87h wrote

Its effect is very much surface level: food's more expensive, gas is more expensive, the internet is filled with political rambling yada yada yada.

But the mountains are still there to explore as they have been for millennia, there's still a lot of art to be appreciated, music to listen to, books to read, forests to walk through, stars to look at, secrets to learn about the universe, pipes to smoke and coffee to drink, I could go on.

Humanity has been complaining about "the world going to shit" ever since we crawled out of our caves and will continue to do so. But that will never diminish my love of life, adventure, risk, beauty, connections and the world itself. So those are my gauges I use to judge my day / week / year and I stand by that.

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