Get out of your comfort zone if you want positive change. Just talking about it isn’t going to make a difference. Change can be daunting; in fact, anything to do with the unknown has that effect. Give it your best shot. Trust the Almighty in your journey.
I’m 27 and absolutely burnt out. What am I supposed to do for 50 more years?
Maintain a yard. Complain about traffic. Keep buying avocados and watching them die. Get oil changes. Answer emails that shouldn’t exist. Schedule life around screens. Chase weekends that disappear instantly.
Call this stability.
The exhaustion isn’t laziness. It’s not a lack of gratitude.
It’s the fatigue of being a generation
that inherited constant instability and was told to build a calm life inside it. Of growing up with limitless information and very limited control. Of watching systems fail in real time while being asked to perform normalcy. Of turning survival into productivity and calling it ambition.
We’re tired because nothing is actually finished anymore. Work follows us home. News never turns off. Rest feels conditional.
So no, it’s not the yard or the traffic or the avocados. It’s the quiet shock of realising adulthood became endless maintenance without meaning baked in. And the hardest part isn’t the workload. It’s being told this is the dream.
jama taqseem is a perfect example of what happens when you make sure your kids always remain hyper-dependent on you. you suffocate their lives as much as you can so they can’t think outside of you.
Why do we always feel the need to be nosey? Why do we have to know everything that’s going on in someone else’s life? You’d be surprised how much good will come your way by minding your own business.