Downer Memes For People Who Are Barely Making It Through the Damn Day

Ada Elder

Jan 20, 2023 7:00 PM EST

To say life isn't fair would be an understatement. I'm currently juggling a million responsibilities, the existential dread of the era, and trying not to absorb the pain of everyone else and everything else that currently surrounds me. It's really difficult to keep it all together. Add that to the prohibitively high cost of therapy and a psychiatrist, and the cocktail isn't one that really makes one feel loosened up. The depression gives way to anxiety, which makes me so tired that it turns back into depression, and the cycle starts all over again. We could try to cope with the pressure by doing yoga as so many people suggest, but that wouldn't exactly fit with our interests. Physical activity is too obvious. We'd rather just lean into the sadness by looking at memes that remind us that we're not alone in our earthly pain. Nay, the meme-makers of the world are familiar with our strife, and do a bang-up job summing up the misery.