Major or minor, doesn’t matter. Just something you’ve been hoping for to happen for years and years, despite many promises and declarations made of that thing happening. Only for it to never happen at all.
Two things come of mind to me.
For America, we will never ever see an Independent take hold of the presidency. It hasn’t happened for over 170+ years and that’s a long damn time since the last time a person representing an independent party has ever held office. The only successes an independent party ever sees is smaller governments or some seats somewhere in the house or senate, that’s about it.
But every election cycle, people are hamming up about how it’s going to be the year for independents, until the primaries come and go and we’re back to falling on two parties. I’ve stopped getting my hopes up and I stopped hoping the moment Bernie Sanders, who originally did run as an independent for the presidential election in 2016, had to turn to running as a democrat because even he realized that was the only way he was going to get votes at all.
One other thing and it’s gaming related is that, there are still Nintendo fans out there hoping for a Mother 3 english release. It’s a game that was released in 2006 and it never left Japan since. Despite all of the re-releases of Mother and Earthbound, Mother 3 has not gotten a localization. It’s been released as a fan translation and I feel that’s the best we’re ever going to get.
It’s been 18 years since it’s original release and I think there’s no point in hoping now for Nintendo to release it. They’re too busy suing people.
True human connections
That we’re gonna do something real about the whole climate change thing. We’re doing a bunch of window dressing, but there are too many entrenched interests fighting it.
My current hope is that my kids (and their kids) can make the best of whatever a +2C or +4C world looks like. And we manage to survive despite any ecosystem collapses.
that my health will improve enough to live anything resembling a normal life. the doctors already gave up a long time ago
Being young and the possibility that comes with it, I suppose. I’m not unhappy or anything, but there are times where I see the rest of my life laid out in front of me, and I’d be stupid to change it. And that’s fine, but I do miss the possibility space that came with not having your shit together.
Nothing really. There are things I don’t have much faith for, and some of those are ones I used to be more hopeful of before but I haven’t exactly given up on anything.
Bernie Sanders, who originally did run as an independent for the presidential election in 2016, had to turn to running as a democrat
And then he stepped down to officially endorse Hellary. I often wonder how many family members did they threaten to murder if he didn’t step down and back her.
The year of Linux on desktop
Next year!!!
Linux has been on my desktop since the 1990s.
Same here😁 but somehow the rest of the world doesn’t quite get it.
The days of having a good user interface for electronics or programs is long gone and is never coming back. To many people don’t even know how to look at a user interface and know if it’s good or bad. They just buy bad ones and claim it’s good out good enough.
That the US will never have net neutrality as a whole. A few states might implement it but no where near enough.
Me being independent and making a woman having an intimate relationship with me. I’m too weird, poor and incapable for that to happen.
Just to inject a little hope, plenty of weird, poor people have girlfriends. I don’t know anybody weirder than me, and my wife doesn’t mind.
You can’t ‘make’ someone have a relationship with you though. That’s illegal and reprehensible, but I’m sure you didn’t mean it that way
Who you attract depends on who you are. If you’re broken and weird, you’re going to attract broken and weird people.
And ideally, that’s not usually what someone wants if they want to be with someone.
You don’t have to be broken to be weird, it feels problematic to conflate the two.
But to take your point, I agree that you attract people based on the vibe that you’re putting out. If you don’t like who you’re attracting, then you can work on yourself and your vibe will improve too.
I don’t attract ANYTHING
I assume you’re a guy somewhere in their twenties.
Start going to the gym and lifting weights. I know it’s a cliché, but it’s the single most impactful thing you can do - not only for how others see you, but also for how you see yourself. It’s something everyone should be doing anyway, but it especially applies to people like you. Don’t do it for them, do it for yourself. I know how you feel, believe me - I used to be in your shoes.
It is cliché. Did that in my 20s for a while, serves to nothing. Also I’ve seen fatasses happily married and I’m not fat. I have less than 0 motivation at this point of my life, especially since I’m broke. I have other problems as well. A gym is another problem.
I don’t believe in those things.
Well then you have my sympathies. That must be an exhausting way to live.
Sometimes I just don’t wanna live anymore
That’s a big mood. I honestly mean that. I don’t want to presume to know your situation, but from one human being to another I can tell you I’ve been there too. I low-key hope to get hit by a bus so I don’t have to put up with life anymore.
It’s a feeling that seems to come and go, and it can ratchet itself up to a feverish intensity. But every time I’ve been pushed to the brink so far, I’ve chosen life. When you stare death in the eye, you suddenly want to see one more sunrise.
If you’re having these thoughts with any kind of intensity or regularity, or you’ve started to put a plan together to end your life, then you owe it to yourself to attempt an intervention. Most people point to therapy, and if it’s available to you it’s worth a shot. And if therapy is unavailable or untenable, reading about psychology and non-pharmaceutical treatments for depression did wonders for my outlook.
The world is better with you in it. I’m rooting for you.
