I recently turned 51. There is no question at this point that more of my life is behind me than ahead. (If I live to be 102 I will be profoundly miserable, and profoundly miserable people rarely make it to 102.)
As I get older, I’m finding myself more and more just exhausted and exasperated with the goings-on of the world. Even if we didn’t have the one very big obvious own-goal Americans are dealing with at the moment, it just seems like so much stuff in life is a lot harder than it needs to be, for no real reason. But I don’t think it’s just the cynical perspective of my advancing age talking. The world really is getting worse.
There’s just broad stubbornness, cruelty, and lack of generosity. I’m not talking about charity even, just the basic generosity of giving your fellow humans a fucking break now and then. Don’t go out of your way to make things harder on those around you. Is that so much to ask?