They did NOT live cheap.
They had restaurants, with tablecloth and cloth napkins.
Do NOT buy the revisionism that tells you the Boomers had a better life because they spent less money: THEY SIMPLY HAD MORE MONEY
And one day you wake up and you're 23 or 25,or 27 and suddenly everything feels like it's moving too fast. You miss something can't you quite name. Not a person, not a place, just a feeling. The feeling of being young, when everything was new and the smallest moments felt big. Late night talks with friends, walking home in the dark laughing about nothing, summers that felt like forever. You just want that again - to feel alive in the little things, to slow down, to be here, really here, before it all becomes another memory.
"What radicalized you?"
Watching my female relatives plan, cook, shop, decorate, clean, and organize for the holidays while the men just show up and watch TV the whole time.
I don’t really enjoy life and it’s always been like that for me. I do a lot to distract myself and improve my life and grow. And I take my meds and I have happy moments but the majority of it is very tiring and I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t like this. Idk why