There’s nothing you can really do about it. The world is going to move on from you long after you’re dead. So why worry about changes? If anything, seems like you should be taking the time of your life to go on a pace you’re comfortable with. Trying to keep up, will only drain your life just as fast.
I don’t?
why would you be afraid of change? it’s your free-choice to not care about it
Vote Republican. Jk. You gotta do something, make stuff. Have tangible accomplishments. I garden. I have several rose bushes and adjacent space I tend throughout the city. I grow vegetables. That’s for me though. Paint something, write something. Whatever. The point is you can put some change of your own into the world. That thing can anchor you psychologically.
You don’t deal with it, you make that world slow the hell down. Drop this phone immediately, make a cup of hot chocolate, grab a book and read for a few hours.
What? You don’t have time? Take a look at your phone, it’ll tell you how much time you wasted on it this week. That’s where the time is. That’s how you slow the world down.
But the news, they bring new and exciting things that I surely must be aware of! Well slap yourself with a fresh haddock and calm down. Drop off that treadmill and focus on something you love. Cooking, music, embroidery, gardening, watching movies, walking the dog. The news will be there next week or next month, and they will be just as shity as today’s.
You decide where your attention is spent, or someone else decides for you.
Know that the world has been changing fast for millennia long before you and will continue to change for millenia long after you’re gone. And know that while it may seem that you’re only here to witness it, if you’re lucky, you’ll be amongst the few that have changed how it is for all those that follow.
Counterpoint:
Didnt humans “pretty much live the same lives” for like hundreds of years before the industrial revolution? As in terms of if you put someone in 1500 CE to 1000 CE or 500 CE and like swap their places, they could 99% fit right in (provided you magically also acomodate for sound shifts in language throught the centuries), I mean in the technological sense, like maybe rulers change and culture is slightly evolved/devolved, but its fundamentally the same thing.
Its really around the 21 century that had a “turning point”, where info isnt something passively passed to you, but something you could actively seek out on your own. A little adventure with just a network connected screen device.
Oh I embrace it. I wanna explore space. Preferrably when they figure out the safety stuff, cuz I’m not riding on a “Space Titanic” lol.
But fret not, the Amish community might grant you refuge if you find it too overwhelming xD
Not unless you’re willing to convert.
drink
“In every age, in every place, the deeds of men remain the same.”
It’ll be fine, insha’Allah. 🤷♂️
Everything is temporary. You’re going to die. Maybe even tomorrow. Hell, maybe even in your sleep tonight. Nothing matters. Just enjoy what you can and let everything else fall into the enveloping abyss that is time. Because one day sooner than you wish, you’ll dive right back into the non-existence from which you came.
Recognize that change is inevitable and things will suck more and more as I get older.
