mine is that people in general are bad and terrible and my ideal life would be as a hermit with very little interaction with anyone except my animals and plants and no impact from people or governments and never reading the news.
when i was young, i was optimistic about the future of the human race but reality has bitch-smacked my inner child and taught me the truth and it keeps getting confirmed the older and older I get.
so what lessons have you learned as you’ve gotten older?
If you become a student of history, you see that that distant past, nearly everywhere was much much worse than it is now. If that is the case, then that must mean humanity has improve, even a small amount. Is there more improvement needed? Absolutely!