r/Millennials • u/daphnemoonpie • Aug 23 '26

Meme Relatable

Credit @bizzlebeel on Instagram

Ps I don't want to die, I want to share dark humor. This is funny to me. If you do want to die, please know you are loved and there is help available. This feeling isn't forever.

It's always darkest before the dawn.

Please don't give up ❤️

PPS Jesus Christ y'all, just laugh

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u/DenseTiger5088 Aug 23 '26

It’s not that I’m so miserable currently that I want to die now, but moreso that I can see the clear downward trajectory and I cannot deal with life in another twenty years when I will be physically incapable of performing my job, and rents/gas/bills/food all getting more expensive every day.

I have zero retirement savings and will never own a home, so the future is abjectly terrifying. I’m completely burned out at 40 and will be lucky if I’m not homeless by 60. A quick death will be better than being homeless in the USA in 2046

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u/PeeingCherub Aug 26 '26

You sound like me, except I'm 48. I have about enough saved up to live for maybe 2-3 years after retirement. There just is not enough runway and there never will be. I own a house and it doesn't really matter -- situation still grim. My wife and I both work. My car is 21 years old and I am now spending significant amounts of time keeping it running. The kids are going to college, I'm making more money than I've ever made before and in purchasing power, it's still half what I made in 2000. We've done most things "right" and we will never retire and most likely never be out of debt. If something happens to either of us, everything explodes. We've just tried to give the kids a healthy environment and opportunities. We are so fucking tired we don't know who we are anymore.