Subj : Re: New to this
To   : ARELOR
From : Cougar428
Date : Tue Apr 29 2025 06:07 pm

-=> Quoting Arelor to Cougar428 <=-

 >  I understand it's sometimes hard to persevere, but when things look
 >  like they are at their worst - they can only get better. Take a break
 >  and you'll feel better.

 Ar> This reminds me of a regular subject for conversation that pops up
 Ar> every now and then with aquitances. The subject is the fact I will
 Ar> never get a public retirement pension because by the time I retire,
 Ar> the public retirement funds will be effectively bankrupt. 
 Ar> People usually takes it as a joke. Some guy, one day, told me
 Ar> something that serves as the perfect example of why society is
 Ar> wrecked: he said "Don't worry, what we know is we will all get our
 Ar> retirement pensions." 
 Ar> Such claim is worrysome in itself because it shows people believes
 Ar> stuff won't change even if all evidence points at the fact it will.
 Ar> You can point at the tendencies and strains retirement funds get and
 Ar> also at the fact absolutely nothing is being done or planed to save
 Ar> them - in fact, what we know is in 30 years retirement pensions will
 Ar> allow you to buy a fistful peanuts per month at best. And yet people
 Ar> refuses to openly acknowledge it because the popular thing to do is
 Ar> pretend things will fix themselves. 
 Ar> I think it is soooo much constructive to acknowledge in 30 years
 Ar> retirement funds are gona be deeply fucked up so you can withstand the
 Ar> storm when it hits. Being a prepared pesimist motherfucker beats
 Ar> optimism. 
 Ar> My point is that when things look bad you have to assume they are bad
 Ar> instead of pretend they aren't. 

 I don't disagree with you, but sometimes you need to stop worrying
 about something which is deeply bothering you in order to relax and
 worry about the things that are dear to you.

 I get your point. But worrying every minute of the day will make you
 sick. Relax or you'll drive yourself crazy.


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