Honestly, in my work as a therapist, Iâm seeing this A Lot, and tbh I still donât have a satisfactory approach to it. A heavy dose of Existentialist âcreate your own Purposeâ tempered with âwhen the planeâs going down, put your own oxygen mask on firstâ, but⌠yeah, there is no ethical way to work on individual emotional distress without acknowledging the systemic socioeconomic, geopolitical fuckery going on at the moment, and the sheer grief that comes with it.
Iâm a guidance counselor/psychologist for teenagers and itâs getting really hard to motivate young people to work for a future they donât believe in.Â
 They look at ther future and see global warming, wwIII, unemployement, political unstability, poison in everything they eat, the earth and animals dying all around them.Â
I saw this video where someone was asking french teens in the 50s how they imagine the future would be. The war hadnât been over for long and yet it was all positive with like peace and flying cars and such. Then they went and ask the same questions to nowadays teens and hell that was depressing. Some still had hope, but it was just that âwell I hope Iâll have a nice house and maybe some kidâ but there was such a hesitancy to it, like they didnât dare to hope too much.Â
People mock Greta Thunberg but what they donât get is that when she said âyou stole my dreamsâ, it was the truth.Â
Young people donât get to dream like they used to. They donât dream anymore, they grief all that wonât be anymore and thatâs just so fucking sad.Â
