Hi, really appreciate this forum opening up. I'm in the process of writing my own experience of the last few years, as I was so disoriented by the entire experience, it's been a massive wake-up call for what I'm thinking of calling 'The Great Disappointment'. To more seasoned characters, this covid process might have fit neatly in their framework of seeing the world, the continuation of stupidity en mass. I was more naive, I grew up in a theatrical household that was the home for many travelling actors, as well as housing many foreign exchange students who we would share dinner with most nights, some even stayed with us for close to a year... I grew up with a distinct feeling that there are wonderful and kind people all across the globe from those experiences.
I still think that, but I have also come to realise that many people simply do not allow information into their minds that will disrupt their status quo, or from my more cynical perspective, anything that will make them seem a bit off to others. The shock I felt then, when I started to see decent and kind people shaming people for not completely bowing their heads to this narrative will be something I will always remember, the fact I lived in a period of history where in University I was drilled into believing challenging the teacher was the best thing you could do, to a few years later being chastised for doing my own research. The fact that I witnessed in my lifetime doctors being fired from their jobs for simply asking questions, or that people are on trial for opposing this narrative (CJ Hopkins) will be something I can't forget, and my previous naivety about the human race (a naivety that also carried with it a lot of hope and joy) is no more. That said, I don't want to fester in bitterness, people were misled, and misled badly. Although all the signs point towards people doubling down on denial going forward, perhaps this moment in time will one day be something we can have real and interesting conversations about in the future, once the cracks start to show a little more and people feel less proud about the way they reacted in those times, and how much they allowed fear to control them. What do people think? What were other people's greatest disappointments in the way people responded? I thought we were all a bunch of revolutionaries just waiting for a moment to kick into action! Didn't realise instead we were all a bunch of death-fearing fascists in waiting! Toby, UK, 29, fights the urge to play video games everyday
29 Year old deals with the great disappointment
I'm in the process of writing my own experience of the last few years, as I was so disoriented by the entire experience, it's been a massive wake-up call for what I'm thinking of calling 'The Great Disappointment'. To more seasoned characters, this covid process might have fit neatly in their framework of seeing the world, the continuation of stupidity en mass. I was more naive, I grew up in a theatrical household that was the home for many travelling actors, as well as housing many foreign exchange students who we would share dinner with most nights, some even stayed with us for close to a year... I grew up with a distinct feeling that there are wonderful and kind people all across the globe from those experiences.
I still think that, but I have also come to realise that many people simply do not allow information into their minds that will disrupt their status quo, or from my more cynical perspective, anything that will make them seem a bit off to others. The shock I felt then, when I started to see decent and kind people shaming people for not completely bowing their heads to this narrative will be something I will always remember, the fact I lived in a period of history where in University I was drilled into believing challenging the teacher was the best thing you could do, to a few years later being chastised for doing my own research. The fact that I witnessed in my lifetime doctors being fired from their jobs for simply asking questions, or that people are on trial for opposing this narrative (CJ Hopkins) will be something I can't forget, and my previous naivety about the human race (a naivety that also carried with it a lot of hope and joy) is no more.
That said, I don't want to fester in bitterness, people were misled, and misled badly. Although all the signs point towards people doubling down on denial going forward, perhaps this moment in time will one day be something we can have real and interesting conversations about in the future, once the cracks start to show a little more and people feel less proud about the way they reacted in those times, and how much they allowed fear to control them. What do people think? What were other people's greatest disappointments in the way people responded? I thought we were all a bunch of revolutionaries just waiting for a moment to kick into action! Didn't realise instead we were all a bunch of death-fearing fascists in waiting!
Toby, UK, 29, fights the urge to play video games everyday