Quarter life crisis?

I’m about to be 21, and I’ve never felt this hopeless.

I feel like I don’t have a grasp on my life. I feel like society is poison. I’m struggling worse than ever with mental health.

I literally want to run away to the corner of the world and live self sufficiently. I want to know everything I need to know to only need myself.

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ViciDraco · 41-45, M

More and more I feel the same. I've watched people, especially older ones grow more bitter and sour towards each other. I've watched our economy transform into a machine of short product life cycles and credit/debt management service industries. Cheap entertainment and calorie dense unhealthy convenience food is more available than ever but healthy and enriching food and experiences is growing ever further from the reach of the average person.

All of our priorities are currently backwards. And every social system we have is currently set up to promote keeping them that way.

The idea of just getting away from everything in a cabin somewhere just seems more and more appealing over time.