INBOX: When Did Life Become So Overwhelming and Unbearable?
by Jacob Q. Green
How I feel lately.
I feel very alone. The phone rings, well mostly emails constantly, asking for money. I can’t afford to pay mortgage and food and my goodness everything else, let alone tuition and daycare, bookees, etc. Nevermind, shoes and coats. Forget about travel.
When did life become so overwhelming and unbearable?
I hate hearing sermons about the wealthiest generation ever, etc. We’re so privileged etc. I don’t know if we are or not but I know that so many of us have unbearable anxiety of where will our help come from? But we have to suffer in silence.
Firstly, obviously our help will come from God Almighty. Secondly, we have it so good!
Don’t you think we would trade it in for some menuhas hanefesh? Some peace of mind?
The Western world has practically stopped reproducing, the main reason being, they feel won’t be able to afford the expenses!
I know life is tough and we never signed a contract for an easy life. All I am asking is just some solidarity. Can’t we just say the emes? We cannot afford to live any longer. At least not like this. Not like we remember it in our childhood.
Why is this happening? Are we not supposed to march to geula with riches for all? I suppose we have to feel a bit of pain yet until Moshiach comes immediately. Why? I don’t know.
Waiting every day for Moshiach to come to have some peace.
Related to the geulah
It is very close to the geulah. The rebbe spoke many times about how people here have a good life and dont want to give it up to go to israel with moshiach. It is supposed to get very dark right before moshiach comes as people need to be stirred up to return to hashem. They must see that it is only hashem that they can depend on.
Look at it in a positive way. It means we are very close to moshiach
meyer cheinYe quessAnother
How about a more practical way. The builders in Kiryat Yoel have agreed to lower the price of their housing by half in half of the houses they sell So if the great landlords would reduce their rents in some buildings to half this will help more than the paltry donation that they give to tax sheltered public institutions with great publicity.
You're not alone
There are hundreds of Jewish families in Crown Heights and across NYC who are in your exact same position. We’re all faking it. Nobody wants to be *The Neb* who can’t afford every last luxury, so we all pretend we’re keeping up. We all know these conditions are insane
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Feel your pain, brother, same here!
The price of everything has doubled, which can’t be said about people’s income. Simple math.
The problem is inertia, and pre-election effort to pretend things are fine. My question is why Wall street is doing fine, and the simple answer is that *corporations* are doing amazing. However, at some point they will have to face retail economy, we shall see. Cheers!
Avraham Chaim
It’s time that we realized that Moshich is not coming, at least in our lifetimes. All the sad faces and happy songs that we see at any farbrengen have done nothing. It’s fair to say that some of our greatest gedolim were 100% wrong about the most important event in human history. Let’s face facts and get on with our lives with a sense of reality.