Is the world dying? There doesn't seem to be anything (positive) happening anywhere that one can go and join or experience.
(askanon)
I have a shitload of PTO from having worked at my job for 8 years, and my contacts all over the US have nothing to report as far as something worth going and seeing. I even have friends who are already out there, single, tons of money, ability to travel anywhere, anytime, and they have nothing exciting to report - no neat sights to see, no interesting people, no fun adventures (some of the items on this list are arbitrary, so you'd think someone would have something, anything to report, but no, that is not the case), no monogamous relationships turning into bright and promising marriages starting a new chapter of their lives, no one is bragging about achievements/awards/milestones/jobs, and I don't even know what else to mention. I think there is one exception where a guy I know is adding a deck onto his house and getting a hot tub.
These are honest assessments of my observations. I'm not discounting something because it's outside of my interests or something. I legit mean that the world's life spark looks like it's being extinguished. I'll call up people after a day, a week, a month, several months, a year - they never have anything to report or catch up on. It's not necessarily a negative conversation (though people I know don't really speak negatively like that, if they talk about something negative they're just stating a fact about a situation, of which the solution is either pending or unattainable so it's accepted as part and parcel, and that's the end of it), but it's kind of flat. Flat like a river that's dying and lost its vigor and forced to meander the landscape in order to achieve its meager throughput (this post just got poetic).
I don't really know that there is a "solution" to this (unless someone has a miraculous idea on how to avoid or remedy this), but I thought I'd share. Anyone else seeing this? Do you have a totally opposite experience? If so, what sort of things are you seeing differently, and why do you think that is?
update: I kind of framed the post wrong. I don't need to travel to do things, it'd be fine if something were going on locally, but that is also not the case, which I meant to imply by talking about "all over the US". I mean...... there ain't a daaaaamn thing happening. Young people, old people, middle aged people, poor people, rich people, white people, brown people, working class, white collar, car guys, bar flies, book worms, hell gamers aren't talking about much either except how they're dodging microtransactions which is to cringey for me to even touch as part of a conversation (holy crap gamers have taken a lot of abuse over the years and now they're just crippled and ignoring the hand wringing merchant stealing all their money), stoners, outdoorsey people, hippies, retired people,
