Hi Ladies, I need your stories of hope and strength to make me believe this world is still a great place.
I try my best to be a good person, I am honest, giving, friendly, kind, I keep an open mind, reflect on decisions, apologise when needed. I’m laid back, easy going and I have a long fuse.
But lately I am feeling very snowed under.
I run a business but over the last 5 years or so customers complaints about the most insignificant things are getting very frequent hard to deal with. Customers now are demanding, expecting and take zero accountability. They place blame quickly are righteous and take to social media negativity if I don’t comply. It might be over something as small as not answering the phone or responding to a message in a certain timeframe.
I have a neighbor who is hard to deal with. We have always been kind to her. However she is the sort of person who rings council for an over full bin, an unpainted pergola, she reported us for using our cooling system stating it was too noisy. I had a pallet of stone delivered and she rang the council as it was on the nature strip for a day. Complains about a spa heater noise.
The school my kids go to are teaching the kids that the world is going to die if we don’t look after it, that thunder storms will cause asthma, that bubble taps will give you covid. My oldest is now confused about her name after a lesson on non binary???
These are just a few examples of the bigger picture but I feel like I am sinking with all the woke.
The world complaining, the new generation are so politically correct that no one is able to smile and have fun. The world is so fake, Everyone wants perfect, everyone is so concerned about themselves, their image, their own backyard. I’m feeling like I want to run and hide away to keep my family healthy and away from it all... but there is no where to go. It’s everywhere.
Ladies give me some good stories to life me up!!!
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Thunderstorms do cause asthma. People are just educated and opening their minds to be accepting. Its not really all that hard, i gnore the complaining, minimise social .media and news sites and youll remove most of the nonsense and stress. Shape your world to find the good. Spend some time at your kids school and see all the amazing supportive, innovative, creative, caring things that are happening.
I am hearing you! I work in a servo in a tourist town and you would think they would all be a bit happier being on holidays but no, they are a bunch of rude, arrogant, self entitled pricks.
My good news story would be one that happened recently funnily enough involving a tourist proving they aren't all the same. I had a local single parent come in to buy a few things, milk, toilet paper a few treats for the kids and a coffee. Then her card wouldn't work, she put something back and tried again, still wouldn't work. Then a tourist who wasn't even waiting, he was sitting down having a coffee, saw what was going on and came over and paid for everything plus 50 on top and gave her the cash. I thought it was lovely!
There is also a mystery lady who always pays for the car behinds order at the maccas drive thru every morning. People would post on the local page thanking her and then that has started a bit of a thing where people pass it on, so it has a flow on effect and theres always someone paying for the cars behind order.
I feel like this is me too. I'm becoming so impatient with my Clients and general people around me. I'm overwhelmed, and faking happiness is becoming more difficult. I could have written this. It absolutely can and does become a mental health issue.
We live in an era where people have a voice and they aren't affraid to use it - that's a good thing.
We have a generation of young people who are passionate environmentalists and human rights activists - that's a good thing.
Racism, homophobia, sexism is slowly but surely being stamped out of our culture - that's a good thing.
Kids of today are so much more free on their journey of self discovery than any generation of kids before them - that's a good thing.
Mental health is being so openly talked about these days - that's a good thing.
Here's a few personal ones:
My grandmother's tween neighbour was once out playing in his yard, he saw her struggling with her wheelie bins and raced over to help her. He took it upon himself to bring them in and out every week for her.
A few years ago I was having some severe money problems. I was at the supermarket with my 2 small children and I thought I had enough on my card to cover the bread and milk I needed, I didn't.
After about 10 minutes stuffing around trying to get my card to say "Approved", (the manager had come over to assist at this point too), the young lass serving kindly and discretely told me not to worry about it, she'd pay for it out of her own pocket. Her manager looked livid and that girl was probably only earning 12 bucks an hour!
More recently, I began using public transport to get to work. I regularly see high schoolers and uni students offer their seat to someone who looks like they need it more.
I also watch a lot of those real life medical shows. The care and compassion from the doctors, nurses, paramedics just completely restores my faith in humanity.
Yeah, there's a lot of darkness in this world but there is still so much good.
The world is not a bad place. It IS good that people are now standing up to sexist, racist, homophobic points of view. It's not about political correctness, but growing and developing. Can you imagine if we didn't? We'd still have more people who'd feel that it's ok to say truly awful things.
In terms of environment, thunderstorms do cause asthma. I suffered from thunderstorm asthma in Melb a few years back and nearly died. So yeah. It's not a figment of some Greenies imagination.
If you are finding that you are having issues with communicating with your customers, may be have a look internally and see if there is anything you can do from your end.
You don’t sound opened minded at all, very closed actually.
I’m sure gay people didn’t find it “fun” back in the day, or black people, or people with disabilities, even the kids with asd and adhd that were labelled just bad/naughty, women who suffered dv but everyone pretended not to notice etc.
We have ramps and wheel chair access everywhere, kids are taught it’s okay to be gay (hopefully that will bring down the suicide numbers) and kids with behavioural issues are treated for their underlying conditions, giving them the best chance for success and to reach their full potential. The next generation actually care about the planet, recycling, no straws, no polystyrene, to me that’s progress.
Not sure what fun we are missing out on but the fun that’s unacceptable today, wasn’t fun for certain demographics back then.
I feel the same as you. I feel really stuck at the moment. Your not alone. And it mad me feel better reading this. We have a neighbour just like yours and takes to social media to complain... I have been really flat for weeks. I just want to curl up in a ball.