Why the 21st Century is Opening With a Big Bang of Bad Vibes

Medium

The writer here is umair haque, one of my favorites.

Wham! Something strange, ugly, cold, and painful raced through me. It rocked me to my core. It shook me like a leaf. I ran to the bathroom, feeling nauseous, upset, suddenly dialed up to 11.

It wasn’t the show. It was the certain, singular kind of panic attack I’ve had since I was a little kid. A thing made of intense existential dread, of heart-pounding mortality, of the head-spinning realization that everything will one day be nothing at all. Is that all there is? What is this strange nightmare we’re living through — not knowing why we’re born, knowing we’re going to die, not knowing where we go, time turning us to dust? How can this be me, you, everything, us?

It’s as if a wave of negative energy is rolling through the world, my friends. If you’ve felt strangely uncertain, worried, terrible, and pretty miserable lately — I assure you, it’s not just you. It’s everyone. It’s a negative energy flu. Did you have something like my attack recently? Did you feel shaky, rocked, destabilized — even though, by all appearances nothing much had really happened? Congratulations, my friend. You’ve caught the negative energy flu.