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Anonymous

March 19, 2025

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This year, in 2040, I completed 83 years of my life in the summer.
I'm pretty familiar with my life, I'm relatively healthy, and I have a husband. My husband is also healthy and still rides a non-electric scooter. He doesn't go abroad as he did 10 years ago, he doesn't do two-thousand-hundred-mile hikes anymore, he just drives his 40 kilometers a day. I like to accompany him, now by train or bus, at his destination we meet and ride the train together with the scooter home.
We're alone at home. My daughter is only 55 years old, she will still be working for at least 15 years, she doesn't have much time for us. We must be healthy or die quickly, because there will be no one to care for us. Good thing they legislated the euthanasia, we have to save up for it, but we won't be a nuisance to anyone. My granddaughter is now 27 years old and my grandson is 25 years old. They study or work in remote cities and we can only see them remotely. It's a good thing we have the technical conveniences to keep in touch.
I'm glad I had a baby and we have grandchildren. Life without them would be meaningless. Every other acquaintance has no grandchildren, her children did not want them.
We don't have television, we haven't had the same crap for 20 years, lies and fakes of reality. Only what I read in old books or see with my own eyes is real. The media has failed to break free from the misrepresentation of reality, using AI to fool people.
Fortunately, I am not hungry and there is no war. There was a threat that Russia would eventually conquer Ukraine and spread further, but fortunately there was an ACTION that, perhaps for a longer time, suppressed Russian expansionism. However, it is at the cost that we are not a free Czech Republic, but a state subject to the European Union, which is a pier in itself. The European Union still lets people live, but it has to comply with their regulations in everything. The government of our country only nods, otherwise we would be threatened with stopping the import of food, energy, medicines, everything essential for life from designated foreign suppliers.
For the past 15 years, I've wondered why there are people in the world. To have children, of course, what those children have to live in. A totalitarianism called democracy. Or do we live only to produce money for oligarchs, multinationals and to feed unnecessary officials in our youth? No one gave me an answer... and in fact, I didn't even ask anyone. I can't believe I'm getting a true answer.

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