Journal, Day 1596
Thursday, 01 August 2024
Ukraine War: Day 891
Hamas-Israel War: Day 298
Mass shootings in the USA in 2024: 323
30-year-old multi-millionaire comedian and actor Pete Davidson recently checked himself into a “wellness facility” to “focus on his mental health.” Entertainment Weekly got wind of this and made a huge deal about his “continuing to seek help in his ongoing mental health journey after a busy year.”
Mental health journey? Busy year?? Seriously?!?
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I think I speak for everyone who lives in the real world as it is right now that “mental health” consists of having an hour at the end of a 10-hour workday (spent making money for someone else and being paid the bare minimum to survive) so we can maybe take a long bath, have a cocktail or a beer, and hopefully scroll through Instagram looking at silly cat pictures long enough to unwind and get to sleep for five hours before we have to wake up and to go back to the grind for another 10 hours.
I defy any of these self-absorbed, social-media-influenced, gen-Y and gen-Z wuss-bags to make it through one full week of real-world issues, without the help of their parents or their trust funds. Spend one week having to buy their own groceries, walk their own dogs AND pick up the poop, cook their own meals, clean their own messes, deal with their own internet providers, and fold their own goddamn laundry.
And do it with the bank account that the rest of us have.
They would fail. I guarantee it.
We, the REAL people, are made of strong stuff. We keep going. We keep fighting. We keep living.
Remember that, my friends. We are the ones that will keep this world spinning, while those weaklings are curled into fetal positions and screaming for their mental health counselors when the lights all go out.
