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Personally 2024 was ok for me even though I was laid off and unemployed for 6 months. Ok maybe it's a little shitty.

If we're in the darkest timeline, what was the last point where it felt there was so much hope and joy in the world?

Some options commonly put out.

The day Pokémon Go released July 2016. So prepandemic and we went outside and and a girl told me where to find Weedles. Yep I'm in a videogame
The day before 9/11 or when Harambe got killed
When Endgame released, culmination of 10 years of marvel moments into a single movie, people cheering in the cinema. Still pre pandemic, maybe there's a trend here

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[-] HiddenLychee@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

I feel like it's not my right to be happy unless I can impress in some way, like through work or academia. Everyone else has surpassed me and I can't impress anywhere, so I just feel like I don't deserve happiness anymore.

[-] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

Don't live your daily grind according to the highlight reel you see about other people.

We often don't see the full lives of even our closest family members - thoughts, hopes, desires, dreams, frustrations, disappointments - and our window into our friends' and acquaintances' and strangers' lives is even smaller. It's like we only see the few triumphs they post on FB/insta and that's all we know of them.

You can't compare yourself to that. You know your full day of struggles, the long grind between wins, and you only see the big wins of your friends. You know your own dark thoughts and barely-held heated retorts but you never know either of those from anyone around you.

You will always feel inadequate if you're comparing your everyday to the best days of your contacts. It's okay to stop that; and, if you can, we often discover we don't suck so much.

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