I highly recommend owning a cat because it makes every bad feeling a little easier to deal with. It's hard to feel the full weight of life's problems when a little weirdo is sprinting around your house like it's training for the Olympics.
I do not know how to explain this, but as a cat parent, you quickly learn that “absence of cat (chill)” and “absence of cat (suspicious)” are two very different kinds of silence.
I love this trick from baby boomers. Make things insanely unaffordable and do not raise workers’ wages. Then, complain that young people spend too much money on frivolous activities like eating lunch.