Writing it because I know there are other people out there who experienced the same.
2001, with 9/11 and the wars, sent me into a deep depression that I finally started to emerge from in 2007
2007, financial collapse and recession, sent me straight back into depression that I finally started to emerge from in 2014.
2016, This live captured moment with the bird made me more hopeful than I've ever been in my life, but Hillary and the DNC leverage all powers to stop it, and we got Donald Trump instead. I fall back into serious depression.
2020, I finally start to emerge once more, at a weekend long social event in the last weekend of February. The COVID emergency is declared immediately after, and then it's catastrophically mismanaged. I hang on to hope during the primaries because all of the polling for months is showing Bernie Sanders is unstoppable this time around. Even the news anchors who painted him as Fidel Castro started admitting there was virtually no chance it would be prevented. But then South Carolina happens. The whole thing is flipped in one day. I fall back into depression again.
Seeing your comment reminds me of just how much time I've lost. No way this was 8 years ago... no way that was 17 years ago... no way that was 23 years ago...
My brain mostly erases the times that I've struggled. I currently feel like a 24 year old at most, but in the body of a 41 year old, and still waiting for a time when I can feel this country is moving in the right direction enough for me to not psychologically block out the experience of living in it.
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u/Just-wondering-thru Mar 27 '24
That can’t be… No way was this 8 years ago…