Scary times we live in. The planet is burning, entire species of animals are going extinct in droves, oceans full of plastic and inedible fish, weird viruses spreading at warp speed across countries, and our children being invited to talk about suicide and depression.
Yesterday I went to the pediatrician with my girls (aged 16 & 14) for their annual checkup. For the first time ever, they were handed a questionnaire to complete. I wasn't asked if this was ok, they just handed them directly to the girls. Questions such as "Do you feel overwhelmed and tired all the time? Do you struggle to complete normal tasks? How many times in the last year have you felt life would be better if you weren't here? Have you thought about dying or harming yourself?" I was gobsmacked! What the actual fresh bleeping hell was that?!
Kids these days don't know if they're coming or going. They have to question their gender identity, their sexuality, etc. before they're even hitting their adolescences. I'm all for tolerance and striving to be less ignorant/more inclusive, but come the duck on! Kids should be worried about their grades, their families getting along, and here in the US how they will pay for their advanced education. That's about it. And they SHOULD be learning to be tough, to be resilient, to weather the tit storm an average lifetime lobs at one. They shouldn't be brainwashed into thinking they're delicate. No wonder the Snowflake Syndrome is rampant. What will the world look like in one or two decades? Everyone running around asking each other "Are you ok? Did you try to kill yourself today?", as the world continues to burn.
No wonder Harry and Meghan have touched a nerve amongst the "woke" crowd. It's like getting super privileged people in tiaras and sashes to muck about with the common plebs. They're surviving and not thriving, whilst squatting in mega mansions, burning though millions in tax funded security, flying around whilst preaching sustainability, looking wrinkled and poorly clothed, but insisting they know best and by golly still in line of succession, and giving the finger to the very establishment that made them privileged to begin with.
I am fed up with it all. I know this post isn't politically correct, and everyone should be able to be who they want, love who they want, whaaa whaaa whaaaa, be a they/he/she/them, you do you, etc. As a middle aged woman that has had her fair share of crap to wade through, without assistance or support of any kind, it's appalling. Surviving isn't being delicate. Thriving isn't being delicate. Evolution is survival of the fittest. How is being super delicate and worrying about random sadness to the point you can't handle someone being mad the best way? I just don't get it.
