The older I get, the less I understand/ that I thought I did. (I'm 54) and the more things that effect my day to day, the more people try and force me into their way of doing, pisses me off more each day, than the day before. Like how fast gas prices have doubled. It started, THE VERY DAY the current "president" took over. The cost of groceries, gas, and even a pack of AAA batteries has blown up. It has compounded terribly, especially within the past 2 weeks, the speed at which the increases have been happening. I have a 70 mile a day commute, and there is no way around it. Get a job closer to home for even LESS? Start over at the bottom again? I can't.
Like the kid that gets in trouble, and thinks his big brother will go fight for him, and then Big Brother tells Little Brother "Fight your own battles". I can't understand why what is going on overseas has to bother us, in the least. Let em blow each other up. No skin off of our nose.
Their problems are not ours. but its an excuse to make our daily lives that much more difficult.
It pisses me off further, that I Can't do a damn thing about it.
\Its costing me double what it did, just to go to work and back. Most of that increase, just since the start of 2022. My pay didn't double, for sure. Without getting too deep in "political" I just wish we could fire that idiot somehow, like my employer could fire me, at the drop of the hat.
the last few times we voted, we have had 2 choices. bad and worse.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s. I wasn't old enough to worry about interest rates and mortgage rates, etc. but people were definitely happier and "freer" back then. My parents bought the house I grew up in, in the late 50s and my Mom still lives in that same house.
Not playing "Debbie Downer" just stating fact, that I see/ every time I leave the house and past a gas station. Very unlike me, I have been going to work and coming home and NO MORE, here lately. I can't. Work to home. Back to work. Repeat.