How are you feeling about the future?

[Puddy_Tat]

I always read their coaches as Horse Seaman

 

[NoXion]

Personally my own situation is pretty good right now. Got a nice job before the pandemic which wasn't effected much by the lockdown, in fact they set us up for home working before the first one came into force. My income and free time have increased because I'm no longer wasting either on commuting.

As for my long-term future, unless there is a radical change in how pensions and such are done, then I'm not looking forward to retirement, because it will simply never happen for me.

Watching the world slide down towards the next historical nadir hasn't exactly been fun. At this point I'm hoping I live long enough to see the situation start to get better.

But in the longer term I'm optimistic. Renewable energy is reaching a tipping point, and reserves of fissionables are plentiful. Civilisation will have the capacity for plentiful energy in the future, even without fossil fuels and if nuclear fusion never comes to pass. Although progress in fusion research continues apace, so I wouldn't rule that out either. It's just looking like the incoming period of historical turbulence could be a particularly rough one. Yay.

 

[existentialist]

I was feeling a bit listless and concerned what life will be like once my youngest moves out (since it hit me so hard with the eldest going to uni) so I've been really putting effort in to embrace joyful activities since then. Learning something new has sparked something most pleasant. It's helped me feel alive again.

But on the other hand I dunno if it's covid related or this sense that lifes gone utterly bonkers and tits up... or peri menopause (probably) But I've been feeling quite apathetic and removed from people and also feeling really frumpy, not at all sexy and also not feeling like making the effort with my appearance. Lost all interest in buying nice clothes too..just feeling like what's the point..personally or in the grand scheme of things. Feel like I've been dressing like a farm hand lately Like I've given up in some way mentally and physically.

So I've lost some part of myself but gained another.

Liked in a sort of solidarity.